Upgrade Thunderbird on Linux Mint 18.2
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Upgrade Thunderbird on Linux Mint 18.2
I have a system running 18.2 and I want to update the Thunderbird release to 68.2.2 - Is this possible and if so how do I go about it.
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Re: Upgrade Thunderbird on Linux Mint 18.2
Hello, bananabob.
Experience so far seems to suggest to me that only Mint 19.x (based on Ubuntu 18.04) receives Thunderbird 68.2.2, whereas Mint 18.x (based on Ubuntu 16.04) is stuck on Thunderbird 60.9.1.
Reason: Mint receives Thunderbird from the Ubuntu software repositories, and Ubuntu does not seem to have any plans of providing Thunderbird 68.2.2 to Ubuntu 16.0.4.
Solution / Workaround:
As usual there is more than one way to achieve your goal of getting Thunderbird 68.2.2 on Mint 18.2 nonetheless.
Here is one of these ways. And I think it is one of the more hassle free ways of achieving the goal:
As explained in this post about Installing(ing) Firefox ESR, I suggest to make use of Nanotube's Ubuntuzilla repository. Nanotube provides the genuine Mozilla software packages for Thunderbird, Firefox ESR and Firefox (release) as .deb installation packages. As a result they can be installed and updated through the Mint software management applications.
The steps to follow have been explained by Nanotube himself here: Installation
The software package, which you are after, is thunderbird-mozilla-build.
I assume that at the time of writing this Nanotube's repo will give you Thunderbird 68.3.1, no longer 68.2.2.
HTH,
Karl
Experience so far seems to suggest to me that only Mint 19.x (based on Ubuntu 18.04) receives Thunderbird 68.2.2, whereas Mint 18.x (based on Ubuntu 16.04) is stuck on Thunderbird 60.9.1.
Reason: Mint receives Thunderbird from the Ubuntu software repositories, and Ubuntu does not seem to have any plans of providing Thunderbird 68.2.2 to Ubuntu 16.0.4.
Solution / Workaround:
As usual there is more than one way to achieve your goal of getting Thunderbird 68.2.2 on Mint 18.2 nonetheless.
Here is one of these ways. And I think it is one of the more hassle free ways of achieving the goal:
As explained in this post about Installing(ing) Firefox ESR, I suggest to make use of Nanotube's Ubuntuzilla repository. Nanotube provides the genuine Mozilla software packages for Thunderbird, Firefox ESR and Firefox (release) as .deb installation packages. As a result they can be installed and updated through the Mint software management applications.
The steps to follow have been explained by Nanotube himself here: Installation
The software package, which you are after, is thunderbird-mozilla-build.
I assume that at the time of writing this Nanotube's repo will give you Thunderbird 68.3.1, no longer 68.2.2.
HTH,
Karl
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