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