A Single Command to Install Thunderbird 3 in Ubuntu
For Windows, Mac and Linux: Thunderbird 3 makes it to the final after many preliminary betas, lovers of the open source cross-platform desktop email client can now grab it and enjoy its many new features.
Tabbed emails and Search are certainly the most interesting features in this major upgrade. The first lets you load emails in separate tabs like most web browsers do, the second now contains filtering and time timeline tools to help get to the exact email you’re searching for.
Yes Thunderbird 3 is very fast – Thunderbird has always been my default desktop email client in Ubuntu, this new version really gets me excited. Setting up a new email account be it IMAP or POP3 has never been so easy – Seeing is believing. If you’re now hungry enough to try Thunderbird 3, use the command-line below for a quick download and install.
1 | wget -O – http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/latest-3.0/linux-i686/en-US/thunderbird-3.0.tar.bz2 | tar xj -C ~ |
[Update 1] If you got here via the Ubuntu forums , then this update is for you:
If you want to install Thunderbird 3 in different language other than English (American) copy the command above and change the en-US to your language, for example en-GB for Great Britain, it for Italian, es-ES, Spanish-Spain – for others look here
Read on how to back-up and import your previous Thunderbird profiles Here!!!
Thunderbird 3.0 is a free download for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. For more on the amazing features in Thunderbird 3 move to the release notes.
12:12 am on December 10th, 2009
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12:16 am on December 10th, 2009
This will be good to try. RT @kabatology: A Single Command to Install Thunderbird 3 in Ubuntu #Linux http://bit.ly/5duc0e
1:09 am on December 10th, 2009
At first I was like ‘WTF?’ then I remembered that it’s not in the repos.
Why not download, install *and* run it?
Try:
wget -O – http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/latest-3.0/linux-i686/en-US/thunderbird-3.0.tar.bz2 | tar xj -C ~ | ~/thunderbird/thunderbird
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Brie
11:59 am on December 10th, 2009
@BRIE: Thanks for the addition, it makes sense
7:24 pm on December 10th, 2009
I am a newb. How do I get the application to run without using the terminal commmand ~/thunderbird/thunderbird. I tried to double click the thunderbird.bin file and it does nothing. Thanks!
2:49 am on December 11th, 2009
@Mike Ralya: double-click on thunderbird not thunderbird.bin and hit ‘run’. Create a launcher on the desktop;
right-click on an empty space on the desktop -> Create Launcher ->
Name: Thunderbird 3
Command: ~/thunderbird/thunderbird
Comment:
7:16 am on December 13th, 2009
It is really useful for me
11:39 pm on December 14th, 2009
I tried this method, and it worked fine, but the Ubuntu setting for Font Smoothing is ignored, and Thunderbird 3 therefore looks terribly ugly, compared to 2.
Then I tried the method of adding the daily build repository, installing thunderbird 3-0 (called Shredder), and it turned out it didn’t work there either, and worse, my installation of Shiretoko was auto-updated (its name for Firefox 3.5) also now had Font Smoothing off. Eyah.
Then I removed the daily builds repository, removed both Firefox 3.5 and Thunderbird 3.0. Then reinstall Firefox 3.5 from another repository. Sadly, fonts were still broken. So I removed the xul-runner-1.9.1 that had been installed from daily builds, which prompted another uninstall of firefox 3.5. Finally, after installing firefox 3.5 and a stable xul-runner-1.9.1, I got a decent looking firefox experience.
To conclude, it’s much safer to use the local installation method above… and if you are happy without font smoothing, great!
This was on Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty.
11:48 pm on December 15th, 2009
Had the same experience, currently GTK is still broken with TB3. If you choose to run in terminal instead of just run so that you can see the output, you get:
“(thunderbird-bin:4244): Gtk-WARNING **: /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines/libqtcurve.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64″
So it doesn’t look too great, but is runnable. Or you could be crazy and upgrade to Ubuntu 10.04.
Or some other distro. Just sucks that there is no PPA or any repo to add to get TB3 that isn’t also a daily build distro. I just wish Mozilla did what Adobe is doing with flash and offering an APT installation method to users(see http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/).
3:46 pm on December 16th, 2009
downloaded, and untar to ~
when I run ~/thunderbird/thunderbird I get:
/home/ronald/thunderbird/thunderbird-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libdbus-glib-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
I use Ubuntu 8.04LTS on AMD/64
Any hints?
3:56 pm on December 16th, 2009
found it:
wget http://frozenfox.freehostia.com/cappy/getlibs-all.deb
dpkg -i getlibs-all.deb
sudo getlibs -p libdbus-1-3 libdbus-glib-1-2
5:20 pm on December 16th, 2009
@Ronald Wiplinger: I’m happy u found a solution. Still on Ubuntu 8.04 dai….
7:32 pm on December 29th, 2009
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7:32 pm on December 29th, 2009
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1:50 pm on January 5th, 2010
@Brie
The last pipe in your command is superfluous, while it might work, a pipe’s purpose is far more than just a separator.
Replacing the last pipe by a semi-colon will suffice.
4:45 pm on January 10th, 2010
Is there a way to move the launcher from the desktop to the Applications drop down menu? Sorry if this a silly question. I’m just coming to Linux from Windows and have a lot to learn.
5:05 pm on January 10th, 2010
@Jason: Hi J, just make a new one: Right-click on Applications -> Edit Menus; in the ‘Main Menu’ window, under ‘Menus’ hit ‘Internet’ then ‘New item’ in the ‘items’ column.
In the ‘Create Launcher’ dialog, fill in the fields as follows:
Type: Application
Name: Thunderbird 3
Command: “/path-to/thunderbird”
That’s it
4:10 pm on January 28th, 2010
ubuntu and all its software rocks
3:44 pm on January 29th, 2010
Thanks, Brie for your help. Very useful! Any ideas how to change fonts of TB3?
4:40 am on March 10th, 2010
?????ubuntu???thunderbird: http://orz.se/62A
4:54 pm on March 13th, 2010
NB: Change 3.0. to 3.0.3. otherwise it will error
4:56 pm on March 13th, 2010
NB: Change 3.0.tar.bz2 to 3.0.3.tar.bz2 in the above path otherwise it will error
5:17 pm on March 29th, 2010
If you are running Karmic, just add the following from the CLI.
#1: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa
#2: sudo apt-get update
#3: sudo apt-get install thunderbird-3.1 thunderbird-3.1-gnome-support
That is all & you now have Thunderbird 3 running on your system.
5:36 pm on March 29th, 2010
@NAS: thanks for the info & update.
@BALLBOY: thanks for the updates.
3:10 am on March 31st, 2010
NAS, you are my hero. Thank you.
1:17 am on April 4th, 2010
To install the latest thunderbird on Ubuntu 9.10:
http://rapidshare.com/files/371719776/install-thunderbird.tar.gz
This uses Ubuntuzilla, and installs everything in the right places
11:35 pm on April 5th, 2010
as Ballboy said Thunderbird is now updated. Change to 3.0.4.tar.bz2 for latest and greatest.
Thanks guys you saved me from going nuts trying to install this.
Just a note to other people who are new to linux like myself. Check out the page (linked above) that shows how to import/ export profiles. It shows where Thunderbird has been installed to and where you need to link the launcher icons in order to run and set up Thunderbird.
12:10 am on April 13th, 2010
Hey,
If someone uses a 64bit Ubuntu and downloads/installs the version from the main website http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/
make sure you disable IPV6 support within Thunderbird. I’ve done this via
– edit -> preferences -> advanced -> general -> config editor
– search for ‘ipv6′ and turn it to ON by double-clicking on it
restart Thunderbird… done…
tags: thunderbird 3 Server not found network broken
2:50 am on April 19th, 2010
with new version listed in archive command needs to be
wget -O – http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/latest-3.0/linux-i686/en-US/thunderbird-3.0.4.tar.bz2 | tar xj -C ~
7:01 pm on April 29th, 2010
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1:13 am on August 17th, 2010
I upgraded Thunderbird to 3.x and it does not start. Killing all processes and start from the CLI gives me:
ronald@ronald-desktop:~$ /home/ronald/thunderbird/thunderbird
LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /home/ronald/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so [/home/ronald/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64]
LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/lib/xine-plugin/xineplugin.so [/usr/lib/xine-plugin/xineplugin.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64]
LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/lib/gxine/gxineplugin.so [/usr/lib/gxine/gxineplugin.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64]
LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/amd64/gcjwebplugin.so [/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/amd64/gcjwebplugin.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64]
LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/lib/xulrunner-addons/plugins/librhythmbox-itms-detection-plugin.so [/usr/lib/xulrunner-addons/plugins/librhythmbox-itms-detection-plugin.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64]
LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/lib/totem/gstreamer/libtotem-basic-plugin.so [/usr/lib/totem/gstreamer/libtotem-basic-plugin.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64]
LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/lib/totem/gstreamer/libtotem-cone-plugin.so [/usr/lib/totem/gstreamer/libtotem-cone-plugin.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64]
LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/lib/totem/gstreamer/libtotem-gmp-plugin.so [/usr/lib/totem/gstreamer/libtotem-gmp-plugin.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64]
LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/lib/totem/gstreamer/libtotem-mully-plugin.so [/usr/lib/totem/gstreamer/libtotem-mully-plugin.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64]
LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/lib/totem/gstreamer/libtotem-narrowspace-plugin.so [/usr/lib/totem/gstreamer/libtotem-narrowspace-plugin.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64]
LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /var/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so [/var/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64]
– Exception object –
+ message (string) ‘nounDef is undefined’
+ fileName (string) ‘file:///home/ronald/thunderbird/modules/gloda/gloda.js’
+ lineNumber (number) 1829
+ stack (string) 416 chars
+ name (string) ‘TypeError’
*
– Stack Trace –
gloda_ns_newQuery(103)@file:///home/ronald/thunderbird/modules/gloda/gloda.js:1829
ContactIdentityCompleter()@file:///home/ronald/thunderbird/components/glautocomp.js:206
nsAutoCompleteGloda()@file:///home/ronald/thunderbird/components/glautocomp.js:520
(null,[object XPCWrappedNative_NoHelper])@file:///home/ronald/thunderbird/modules/XPCOMUtils.jsm:313
getService()@:0
()@chrome://messenger/content/search.xml:109
How to fix it?
bye
Ronald
6:23 pm on October 4th, 2010
Latest is:
http://mozilla.cdn.leaseweb.com/thunderbird/releases/3.1.4/linux-i686/en-US/thunderbird-3.1.4.tar.bz2 | tar xj -C ~