Thunderbird is a free and open-source email, news, and chat client developed by the Mozilla Foundation. In this tutorial, we will guide you on how to install Thunderbird on Clear Linux Latest.
Before beginning with the installation process, make sure you have the following prerequisites:
Open a web browser and navigate to Thunderbird’s official website: https://www.thunderbird.net/
On the website, click on the Download button to download the latest version of Thunderbird.
Open the Downloads folder and locate the downloaded tar file for Thunderbird.
Right-click on the tar file and select Extract Here from the context menu. This will extract the contents of the file to a new folder named thunderbird.
Open the terminal window and type the following command to navigate to the folder that contains the extracted Thunderbird folder:
cd ~/Downloads
Now, move the Thunderbird folder to the /opt/ directory using the following command:
sudo mv thunderbird /opt/
A symlink is a file that acts as a shortcut to another file or folder. In this step, we will create a symlink for Thunderbird in the /usr/bin/ directory, which will allow us to run Thunderbird from the command line.
To create the symlink, run the following command in the terminal:
sudo ln -s /opt/thunderbird/thunderbird /usr/bin/
To launch Thunderbird, simply type the following command in the terminal:
thunderbird
Alternatively, you can find Thunderbird in the Applications menu and launch it from there.
In this tutorial, we showed you how to install Thunderbird on Clear Linux Latest. Thunderbird is an excellent alternative to proprietary email clients and provides a simple and user-friendly interface for managing your emails.
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