In this tutorial, we will guide you on how to install Thunderbird on NetBSD.
Open your terminal and go to the Thunderbird website using the following command:
$ cd /tmp/
$ ftp https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/download/
Choose the version of Thunderbird you want to download and run the following command:
$ ftp https://download.mozilla.org/?product=thunderbird-{VERSION}&os=linux64&lang=en-US
Replace {VERSION} with the version of Thunderbird you want to download.
Once the download is complete, extract Thunderbird using the following command:
$ tar -xvf thunderbird-{VERSION}.tar.bz2
Replace {VERSION} with the version of Thunderbird you have downloaded.
Move to the extracted Thunderbird directory using the following command:
$ cd thunderbird
Now run the following command to install Thunderbird system-wide:
# cp -R thunderbird /usr/local/lib/
Once you have installed Thunderbird, you need to create a symbolic link to make it accessible system-wide.
# ln -s /usr/local/lib/thunderbird /usr/local/bin/thunderbird
Thunderbird is now successfully installed on your NetBSD system. To launch it, simply open your terminal and enter the following command:
$ thunderbird
Congratulations! You have successfully installed and launched Thunderbird on your NetBSD system.
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