In this article I will show you how to install Mozilla Thunderbird 17.0.4 or Mozilla Thunderbird 19.0 Beta 1 on your Linux System.
Thunderbird 17.0.4 is a stable version and Thunderbird 19.0 Beta 1 is unstable. It depends on you on what you decide to install.
Thunderbird is a good and popular E-mail client, available for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X.
So, let’s start. This tutorial is a generical install guide, from sources, so it works on a lot of Linux Operating Systems, like: Ubuntu, Debian, Linux Mint, Knoppix, Slackware, Pinguy OS or others.
Download the sources:
* Thunderbird 17.0.4 for 32 bit systems:
$ wget ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/17.0.4/linux-i686/en-US/thunderbird-17.0.4.tar.bz2
* Thunderbird 17.0.4 for 62 bit systems:
$ wget ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/17.0.4/linux-x86_64/en-US/thunderbird-17.0.4.tar.bz2
* Thunderbird 19.0 Beta 1 for 32 bit systems:
$ wget ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/19.0b1/linux-i686/en-US/thunderbird-19.0b1.tar.bz2
* Thunderbird 19.0 Beta 1 for 64 bit systems:
$ wget ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/19.0b1/linux-x86_64/en-US/thunderbird-19.0b1.tar.bz2
2. Extract the archive and cd into the directory:
$ tar -xjvf thunderbird*.tar.bz2
$ cd thunderbird*
Install thunderbird:
$ sudo sh run-mozilla.sh
Hi there !
Cheers for this article, very useful for me, as I’m trying to install Thunderbird on my knoppix distro on a netbook. One step I can’t take though is the makefile : when i use the command ./confirgure while I’m still in the Thunderbird directory, I got this error :
“bash: ./configure: No such file or directory”
Any idea what’s happening ?
n/
I have updated the article. now everything should work like a charm, sorry for the first attempt to install.
Worked fine, cheers man !
you’re welcome flytox 😀
Wheezy:
~/downloads/thunderbird$
Until $ ./run-mozilla.sh everything works fine
(I took version 17.0.6)
But after $ ./run-mozilla.sh it says: cannot execute
After # ./run-mozilla.sh same: cannot execute.
Any idea?
Thanks
yes, add execution permissions: sudo chmod +x run-mozilla.sh
I encounter the same problem trying to install on Fedora 14. It is not that the run-mozilla.sh is not executable, although the code seems to suggest that is all it is testing for. Yet I can launch thunderbird with ./thunderbird or ./thunderbird-bin, although they don’t detect that TB is already installed elsewhere . As far as I know, TB 17 should work on Fedora 14, but the rpmfusion repo demands Fedora 17.
Brand new installation of debian 7.0 (wheezy)
Did the wget and got thunderbird-17.0.4.tar.bz2
Unzipped it and untarred and cd’d into thunderbird directory.
Did a chmod +x on ./run-mozilla.sh
Same as the others.
sudo ./run-mozilla.sh
run-mozilla.sh: Cannot execute .
I even went as far as to
sudo chown -R root.root *
and tried again, just in case there
was something further down in the directory structure
that also needs root ownership. Now that I think about
it, let me go and do the +x recursively. Can’t hurt.
No. No luck on that either.
Any further ideas or comments?
try sudo sh run-mozilla.sh
./run-mozilla.sh ./thunderbird-bin