Downgrade Thunderbird 6 to Thunderbird 5 from PPA

[Alan Pope]

On 18 August 2011 18:56, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, I am a regular tester and triager of Virtual Identity. The fix is
> already released and Thunderbird is now working again. However, I do
> need to know how to handle these situations for software that I am not
> in contact with the devs.
>

Oh well that's good news and quick too!

> Alan, what is your opinion of Yum?

My only experience of it is negative, and not on Ubuntu, so I guess
that's not helpful :D

>> I would first disable the PPA, then "apt-get autoremove" thunderbird.
>
> That wants to remove Enigmail and then reinstalling Enigmail will be
> an engima. I'm a bit afraid of that route.
>

Sadly the way the world works if you rely on PPAs I'm afraid.

:)

Cheers,
Al.