Thunderbird for Mint

[Nils Kassube]

Doug wrote:
> I have just opened up Mint KDE with the intention of using it--it has
> been installed for a while now--and I realize that Thunderbird does
> not seem to be readily available.
> I have downloaded the compacted file from the Internet and decrypted
> it, but now I don't know what to do next. It is a whole slew of
> files. How do I go about installing this?

I'm not sure what you mean by "I have downloaded the compacted file from
the Internet". Do you mean you have downloaded the file from the
Thunderbird site? Then I think it would be much easier to use the
Thunderbird version coming from the Kubuntu/Ubuntu repositories. If Mint
doesn't use the Ubuntu repositories, you could download the thunderbird
packages from <http://packages.ubuntu.com>. Then you would simply
install the .deb package(s). OTOH, you could first check if you could
install it from your standard repositories. If the GUI package manager
doesn't show it, you can try it with the command

apt-cache policy thunderbird

in a terminal (konsole). If that shows something like this

thunderbird:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 1:24.6.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
  Version table:
     1:24.6.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security/main amd64 Packages
     1:24.4.0+build1-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages

then it is available from the standard repository and you can install it 
with this command:

sudo apt-get install thunderbird


Nils