thunderbird?

[Daniel Carrera]

Mark W. wrote:
> thanks, I tried apt-get ... mozilla-thunderbird (before posting),
[snip]
> 
> however, dpkg -i ... did the trick.

So you understand the difference. dpkg installs a file that you have 
downloaded already. apt-get looks at the Ubuntu archives for a package 
matching the name you want, downloads it and installs it.

Daniel.
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