Thunderbird is a free, open source, cross-platform e-mail and developed by the Mozilla Foundation. Thunderbird will be the default e-mail client in Ubuntu 11.10.
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To install thunderbird 6 on ubuntu 11.04
1.Oper the terminal and type
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/thunderbird-stable
hit enter and type ubuntu password.
then type below command and hit enter
sudo apt-get update
type below command and hit enter
sudo apt-get install thunderbird
press y and hit enter to continue
2.To open Thunderbird, click Applications icon from unity launcher. And type Thunderbird in the search applications field.And click Thunderbird mail/News.
Hi
This looks good and easy, but it does not work! When I type in the first command, I get back command not found, so I’m stuck. For some reason Ubuntu loads only Thunderbird 3 and I want TB6. Any ideas?
H
type without any mistake
@Hugh – do as Admin says and it will work fine.
Initially, I simply copied and pasted the commands from web page to Terminal – this did not work as it included some spurious strings.
By TYPING the commands MANUALLY, everything worked fine.