my Dad cant get thunderbird to start. This started after he got tired of the nag screens and updated ubuntu. He is now running ubuntu 20.04.1 and thunderbird 68.10.0
Whenever he types thunderbird at the terminal console it throws up a thunderbird crash reporter. Which says sqlite version error.
He has tried removing and reinstalling thunderbird. He has tried reinstalling sqlite3 using :-
sudo apt update
sudo apt-cache search sqlite
sudo apt install sqlite3
It says sqlite3 is already the newest version 3.31.1-4ubuntu0.2
On the internet I found something about a wrong sqlite3.so file. He only has one. We tried renaming it, it made no difference,so we changed it back again.
Though there are a lot of sqlite3.so.0 and sqlite3.so.0.8.6 in various directories. His libsqlite3.so is in /usr/local/lib/libsqlite3.so and are the
sqlite3.so.0 and sqlite3.so.0.8.6 pointed to by it.
The only other thing I can find on the internet about thunderbird and sqlite3 talks about using emerge , but apparently that is for gentoo linux not ubuntu.
Anyone got any ideas on how to fix this ? Preferably in simple steps :) Or even anyone else have the same problem ?
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