Between the branching and the final version, three release candidates of Mozilla 1.7 will be made available, much like there were for Mozilla 1.0 and Mozilla 1.4.
To do this, the branching of 1.7 from the trunk has been delayed by a week to Friday 9th April and the final release of Mozilla 1.7 has been moved out a month to mid-May. Mozilla Firefox 1.0, a new milestone of Mozilla Thunderbird, a new Camino release and several third party Mozilla based products will be based on Mozilla 1.7, so the Foundation is making efforts to ensure that it is high quality. The stable branch is intended to act as a baseline for developers building Mozilla-based products, with critical bugs fixed on the branch as well as the trunk. In a newsgroup posting, Asa Dotzler has announced that the Mozilla 1.7 branch will become the new long-lived stable branch, replacing 1.4. Icon=/opt/thunderbird/chrome/icons/default/default128.Mozilla 1.7 to Become New Long-Lived Stable Branch Friday April 2nd, 2004 sed -i "s/Icon=thunderbird/Icon=\/opt\/thunderbird\/chrome\/icons\/default\/default128.png/g" ~/sktopĪctivate the launcher again: sudo mv ~/sktop /usr/share/applicationsī) Otherwise, we create the launcher file: sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/sktopĪdd the following lines to sktop: Ĭomment=Send and receive mail with Thunderbird
We also update the reference to the icon. Move the directory to a new location: sudo mv thunderbird /opt/Ĭreate a symlink in /usr/bin: sudo ln -s /opt/thunderbird/thunderbird /usr/bin/thunderbirdĪ) If the sktop was backed up in the first step, we simply use that. The following steps are putting the program into a proper location.Įxtract the archive: tar xjf thunderbird-*.tar.bz2
It’s not a package that one can install with a package manager. The downloaded file is an archive containing the complete program. Remove Thunderbird: sudo apt remove thunderbirdĭownload the latest Thunderbird version from Mozilla. It’ll be moved to its original location later. If the launcher for the Unity Desktop should be kept, we’ll back it up first. Don’t worry, your existing accounts will remain.
This is a step-by-step instruction on how to install the latest Thunderbird version.įirst of all, if there is a version of Thunderbird installed, it needs to be removed. You can set it up and upgrade Thunderbird with these commands: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-mozilla-security/ppa This means that you may get new releases a few hours or even days ahead of the main repository but they may me subject to (usually minor) packaging errors before they are superseded with a fixed version. The Mozilla team uses it as a staging area for package builds that are going to end up in the main repositories after some testing. On top of that the PPA of the Mozilla Security team always offers the latest stable releases of Thunderbird (and Firefox) for all supported Ubuntu releases. Usually it's available within a few hours of Mozilla's announcement, sometimes faster, depending on the archive builders, and the speed of your local mirror, etc. The latest version of Firefox is available for as a security updates in all supported releases of Ubuntu, just doing a normal update will pull it in. The accepted answer to the related question about Firefox applies to Thunderbird as well: