Installing Thunderbird from PPA

[Şerban S.]

Installing Thunderbird from PPA

Snapd and Thunderbird removal

As you probably noticed, Thunderbird is available through a forced install of Snap (snapd service).
To get rid of this, open a terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy/paste:

Code:

sudo remove snapd

This command, will trigger also the removal of Thunderbird. That is what I did.

Or:

Code:

sudo snap remove thunderbird

Installing Thunderbird from Mozilla PPA

Enter the following code into the Terminal:

Code:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/ppa
sudo apt update

Now, let’s prepare the installation of Thunderbird. Copy and Paste exactly the entire code from below:

Code:

echo '
Package: *
Pin: release o=LP-PPA-mozillateam
Pin-Priority: 1001

Package: thunderbird
Pin: version 2:1snap*
Pin-Priority: -1
' | sudo tee /etc/apt/preferences.d/thunderbird

To execute the code, you will be asked for the super password. Type it into the terminal.

Installing Thunderbird. Copy And Paste into the terminal:

Code:

sudo apt install thunderbird

In order to prevent a snap takeover of the upgrade, you need to Copy/Paste the following code into the Terminal:

Code:

echo 'Unattended-Upgrade::Allowed-Origins:: "LP-PPA-mozillateam:${distro_codename}";' | sudo tee /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/51unattended-upgrades-thunderbird

Terminal output of the above steps

Code:

Welcome to Linux Lite 7.0 serban

Thursday 06 June 2024, 12:14:51
Memory Usage: 2985/15900MB (18.77%)
Disk Usage: 12/30GB (42%)
Support - https://www.linuxliteos.com/forums/ (Right click, Open Link)

serban  ~  echo '
Package: *
Pin: release o=LP-PPA-mozillateam
Pin-Priority: 1001


Package: thunderbird
Pin: version 2:1snap*
Pin-Priority: -1
' | sudo tee /etc/apt/preferences.d/thunderbird
[sudo] password for serban:


Package: *
Pin: release o=LP-PPA-mozillateam
Pin-Priority: 1001


Package: thunderbird
Pin: version 2:1snap*
Pin-Priority: -1


serban  ~  sudo apt install thunderbird
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
thunderbird-gnome-support ttf-lyx libotr5
The following NEW packages will be installed:
thunderbird
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 8 not upgraded.
Need to get 70.8 MB of archives.
After this operation, 258 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/mozillateam/thunderbird-next/ubuntu noble/main amd64 thunderbird amd64 1:125.0+build3-0ubuntu0.24.04.1~mt1 [70.8 MB]
Fetched 70.8 MB in 3s (21.5 MB/s)
Selecting previously unselected package thunderbird.
(Reading database ... 425603 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../thunderbird_1%3a125.0+build3-0ubuntu0.24.04.1~mt1_amd64.
deb ...
Unpacking thunderbird (1:125.0+build3-0ubuntu0.24.04.1~mt1) ...
Setting up thunderbird (1:125.0+build3-0ubuntu0.24.04.1~mt1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.27-2build1) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.36.0-1.1ubuntu3) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.12.0-4build2) ...
Processing triggers for mailcap (3.70+nmu1ubuntu1) ...

Best regards, Șerban.