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Ferdi
Asked: 2018-11-07 12:33:54 +0800 CST

Install Thunderbird 52.0 manually and correct

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Ubuntu 18.04 - I'm rather new to Ubuntu.

I want to use Thunderbird with 'Lightning'.
I installed Thunderbird via the 'Ubuntu Software' - Thunderbird 60.3.0.
In the Add-ons Manager of Thunderbird it states, that Lightning is supported till Thunderbird 52.* I wanted to install Thunderbird 52.* actually downloaded version 60.3.0 as .tar.bz2. I opened (not installed) it directly in the folder, where I extracted thunderbird

 /home/ferdi/Downloads/thunderbird

Here in the Add-ons Manager downloading Lightning works well, no issues detected so far.

What I want is Thunderbird with Lightning installed properly as package, so that I can call it in the terminal and see it, when I use Super+a.

package-management thunderbird lightning

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You don't need an old Thunderbird version to use Lightning. The extension just got split out and is no longer in the regular add-on store, but instead comes as separate package in the Ubuntu repositories, called xul-ext-lightning.

    First, remove that old Thunderbird 52 again. Then (if you previously uninstalled it) reinstall the latest Thunderbird version and also install the lightning extension package from the repositories with:

    sudo apt install thunderbird xul-ext-lightning
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