Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, Thunderbird is an open-source e-mail client and chat client developed by Mozilla. Among others, it has support for email addresses, newsgroup, news feed and chat (XMPP, IRC, Twitter) Client, managing multiple accounts. Also, it has support for different themes and its power can be extended by plugins.
The latest version available is Thunderbird 31.5.0, which has been recently released, coming only with bug-fixes.
In this article I will show you how to install Thunderbird 31.5.0 on Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Elementary OS, Pinguy OS, LXLE, Deepin, Linux Lite, Peppermint, Debian, Kwheezy, SparkyLinux, Fedora, CentOS, OpenSUSE, Mageia and OpenMandriva.
Because Thunderbird 31.5.0 is not available via any repository yet, we have to download Thunderbird 31.5.0 from the official ite site, extract the archive, move to /opt and alias the launcher.
Follow the instructions for your system’s architecture exactly, in order to get a successful installation.
How to install Thunderbird 31.5 on 32 bit Ubuntu, Debian CentOS, OpenSUSE, Mageia, OpenMandriva and derivative systems:
$ wget ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/31.5.0/linux-i686/en-US/thunderbird-31.5.0.tar.bz2
$ tar -xjvf thunderbird-31.5.0.tar.bz2
$ sudo rm -rf /opt/thunderbird*
$ sudo mv thunderbird /opt/thunderbird31.5.0
$ sudo ln -sf /opt/thunderbird31.5.0/thunderbird /usr/bin/thunderbird
To start Thunderbird 31.5, just open a terminal, type thunderbird and hit enter.
How to install Thunderbird 31.5 on 64 bit Ubuntu, Debian CentOS, OpenSUSE, Mageia, OpenMandriva and derivative systems:
$ wget ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/31.5.0/linux-x86_64/en-US/thunderbird-31.5.0.tar.bz2
$ tar -xjvf thunderbird-31.5.0.tar.bz2
$ sudo rm -rf /opt/thunderbird*
$ sudo mv thunderbird /opt/thunderbird31.5.0
$ sudo ln -sf /opt/thunderbird31.5.0/thunderbird /usr/bin/thunderbird
To start Thunderbird 31.5, just open a terminal, type thunderbird and hit enter.
Note: This will replace the version of Thunderbird you have already on your system with Thunderbird 31.5.