[GUIDE] How to install Mozilla Thunderbird 60 via PPA

What is Mozilla Thunderbird ?

Mozilla Thunderbird is an open source client available in Linux, Windows and MacOS, and can manage multiple email accounts. In addition to getting news, RSS and chat.

Although the latest version is Thunderbird 60.1.2, and it is about two months since the release of Thunderbird 60, Linux Mint 19, Ubuntu 18.04 and the beta of Ubuntu 18.10 still only offers version 52. only Flathub offers the version 52.9.1.

Today we will explain to you how to upgrade to Thunderbird 60 on Ubuntu and derivatives.

Mozilla Thunderbird 60

How to upgrade to Thunderbird 60?

This is done easily by using the stable builds PPA, after which you will receive future Thunderbird updates. PAA is available for many distributions such as Linux Mint 19.x, 18.x and 17.x. In addition to Ubuntu 18.04, 16.04 and 14.04.

Provide the following commands after opening the terminal:

• sudo add-apt-repositoryppa:mozillateam/ppa
• sudo apt-get update
• sudo apt install thunderbird

Downgrade

If you upgrade to Thunderbird 60 and then have problems or do not like this version, you can return to Thunderbird 52.

To do this, first install ppa-purge with the following command:

• sudo apt install ppa-purge

Now you can undo the older version with the following command:

• sudo ppa-purge ppa:mozillateam/ppa