Thunderbird for Mint

[Little Girl]

Hey there,

Doug wrote:

[SNIP]

> My first shot was to look for T/B in the G UI package manager,
> where it was not found,

It's possible Mint doesn't have Thunderbird in its repositories,
although I could have sworn Mint uses the Ubuntu repositories. Do you
have all the updates Mint suggests you should install?

> and my second was the sudo apt-get install routine, which also
> bombed.

Apparently you don't use sudo in Mint. Try this instead:

apt-get install thunderbird

> So that's why my message. (I'm obviously not responding from Mint,
> since I don't have email there as yet.)

What happens when you type this in a terminal window and press the
enter key?

thunderbird

This is displayed when I type that command in Kubuntu:

The program 'thunderbird' is currently not installed.  You can
install it by typing: sudo apt-get install thunderbird

You would get a different message since your operating system doesn't
use sudo, but it might display a helpful message. (:

-- 
Little Girl

There is no spoon.