How to install Thunderbird 5 on ubuntu using PPA
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What's New in Thunderbird
The latest version of Thunderbird has the following changes:
More responsive and faster to start up and use
Thunderbird is based on the new Mozilla Gecko 5 engine
New Add-ons Manager
Revised account creation wizard to improve email setup
New Troubleshooting Information page
Tabs can now be reordered and dragged to different windows
Attachment sizes now displayed along with attachments
Plugins can now be loaded in RSS feeds by default
There are several theme fixes for Windows Vista and Windows 7
Support for Mac 32/64 bit Universal builds (Thunderbird no longer supports PowerPC on Mac)
Over 390 platform fixes that improve speed, performance, stability and security
Install Thunderbird 5 on ubuntu using PPA
Open the terminal and run the following commands
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/thunderbird-stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install thunderbird
Install lightning extension for your thunderbird email client
Lightning brings the Sunbird calendar to the popular email client, Mozilla Thunderbird. Since it's an extension, Lightning is tightly integrated with Thunderbird, allowing it to easily perform email-related calendaring tasks.
Open the terminal and run the following command
sudo apt-get install lightning-extension
Sorry it would be “sudo apt-get install thunderbird”
sudo apt-get thunderbird
should be
sudo apt-get install thunderbird
Or of course if, like me, you have Thunderbird already installed from the repositories:
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Thanks for heads up on that updated with correct command
No problem. Good article, it never occurred to me to install Thunderbird via PPA, it works nicely.
If you have been using a previous version of Thunderbird you may need to move to another directory / back-up the .thunderbird and .mozilla-thunderbird folders. I ran into some issues of Thunderbird not completely updating and retaining some unwanted settings from my previous Thunderbird version. Once you have Thunderbird 5.0 successfully installed you can go back and re-add selected data (local folders, calendars, contacts, tasks, etc).
Mozilla finally serves 32 and 64 bit builds of Firefox and Thunderbird in all languages. So there is no ppa needed anymore. Just download.. unpack.. use… and wow.. you can even use the “Help – About – Update” then 😉
Thunderbird installed fine, but get an error
on the calendar extension:
# apt-get install lightning-extension
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
E: Unable to locate package lightning-extension
Peter.. install Lightning from here
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/releases/lightning1.0b4.html
Or if you want to install using the PPA:
sudo apt-get install xul-ext-lightning
Thanks! That was easy.
( Could not locate anything useful over at the Mozilla support site.)