Thunderbird Ubuntu Install

Installation Of Current Stable Release
This guide is primarily for Ubuntu users and shows how to install the latest version of Thunderbird when it is not available through the Synaptic Package manager. Another alternative is to install an additional repository for the latest stable build details of which can be found

Download the latest version of Thunderbird from the here.

 Note:  Where you see YOUR_FILENAME_HERE replace it with the name of the file you have downloaded.

Open a terminal and change directory to where you have downloaded the file from Mozilla, then run the following commands:

sudo tar jxvf YOUR_FILENAME_HERE.tar.bz2 -C /opt/ sudo chown -R root:root /opt/thunderbird/ sudo chmod -R 755 /opt/thunderbird/ cd /usr/bin/ sudo ln -sf /opt/thunderbird/thunderbird thunderbird

To create a menu entry, open a terminal and run the command:

sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/thunderbird.desktop

Add the following text:

[Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Name=Thunderbird Comment=Email & RSS Client Exec=/opt/thunderbird/thunderbird Icon=/opt/thunderbird/chrome/icons/default256.png Terminal=false Type=Application Categories=Application;Network; StartupNotify=true

Save and close gedit

Thunderbird can be found under Applications → Internet → Thunderbird.

You will need to add the icon for the start menu.

Open a terminal and type:

sudo su - root

Enter the password for your current profile

cd /opt/thunderbird/chrome/icons/default cp default256.png /usr/share/pixmaps