Howto Install Thunderbird 3 (Beta) On Ubuntu

I usually do not use any e-mail clients on my notebooks because i find managing my e-mails faster and better on my E-63 via Nokia Messaging than on my notebooks. This week i am getting tons of e-mails with swf attachments and i had to install an e-mail client to view some of them :( So it is time to install Thunderbird 3 beta 3 and send a blog post about the installation.

I used two different methods to install Thunderbird 3 (beta 3) on my two different notebooks :
1- From Official (Mozilla) Site
2- From Thunderbird Daily Repository

It is upto you which method you are going to use. However i should mention that, second method (I prefer the repository way.) is a DAILY repository so be prepared to upgrade your Thunderbird 3 often(daily :) ). You can read and learn more about Thunderbird 3 here, from its official wiki at mozilla.org.



###Installation###

1- From Official (Mozilla) Site:
We will download and install Thunderbird 3 with just one command. The command will download Thunderbird 3 to your home directory, and extract it it to ~/thunderbird folder, and remove the downloaded file. It will be ready to use :

$cd && wget -O - http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/3.0b3/linux-i686/en-US/thunderbird-3.0b3.tar.bz2 | tar xj -C ~

You can now create a shortcut to /home/YOURUSERNAME/thunderbird/thunderbird command if you want. To open Profile Manager paste this command to terminal :

$~/thunderbird/thunderbird -ProfileManager

2- From Thunderbird Daily Repository:

We will add Ubuntu Mozilla Daily Repository to our sources.list (This repository also has the following packages : firefox 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, thunderbird 3, xulrunner 1.9.1, 1.9.2, 1.9.3, and prisms). Open your sources.list and add the repository :

$gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

Navigate to the end of the page and add the following :

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main

Change "jaunty" with yours. You can use jaunty, hardy, karmic and intrepid. Save and exit.

Add repository key, update our system and install Thunderbird 3:

$sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 247510BE
$sudo apt-get update
$sudo apt-get install thunderbird-3.0 thunderbird-3.0-gnome-support

Now you can run Thunderbird 3 with $thunderbird-3.0 command

###End of Installation###

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