I have been having an issue with Thunderbird, so I tried to uninstall it. I tried that and it still stayed on the system. I tried purging it, and it is still there. So how do I remove it completely, because I want to re-install it. Did anybody have this issue and resolve it?
I am using 24.04.
You didn’t specify what command you used to uninstall it?
https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-budgie/releases/noble/release/ubuntu-budgie-24.04-desktop-amd64.manifest and more importantly Ubuntu Budgie 24.04 Release Notes | Ubuntu Budgie
reveal it’s a snap package, so did you use the snap remove command? as the deb package isn’t the actual program being only a stub.
Hi @macgrioghair!
Basically, I’ve removed the snap version of Thunderbird embedded in UB 24.04 and what I guess @guiverc calls a stub:
sudo snap remove thunderbird && sudo apt remove thunderbird
As the .deb package is not in the Ubuntu repositories anymore, you must first add the Mozilla Team PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/ppa
Note that you still need to override the snap format.
So create this file:
sudo gedit /etc/apt/preferences.d/mozillateamppa
Insert the following code and save:
Package: thunderbird*
Pin: release o=LP-PPA-mozillateam
Pin-Priority: 1001
After that, this is the .deb version that you are actually going to install:
sudo apt update && sudo apt install thunderbird
It works fine. But the version is obviously different:
apt show thunderbird
Package: thunderbird
Version: 1:115.14.0+build1-0ubuntu0.24.04.1~mt1
Priority: optional
Section: mail
Maintainer: Ubuntu Mozilla Team <ubuntu-mozillateam@lists.ubuntu.com>
snap list
thunderbird 128.0esr-3 497 latest/stable canonical✓ -
nice instructions. Think adding this to budgie-welcome would be a good idea to provide a ‘one-click’ solution to switch from snap to deb.