Thunderbird for Mint

[Doug]

On 07/10/2014 02:54 PM, Nils Kassube wrote:
> 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
>
Thank you, Nils. I downloaded the file from the Mozilla site, as a .tar.bz
and unpacked it. I think your information from the Ubuntu world is going to
make my life a lot easier. My first shot was to look for T/B in the G UI
package manager, where it was not found, and my second was the
sudo apt-get install routine, which also bombed. So that's why my
message. (I'm obviously not responding from Mint, since I don't have
email there as yet.)

--doug