Apt – Can Thunderbird 115 Be Installed as a .deb Package?

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I'm using Kubuntu 23.04, do not use Snaps, and wish to update to Thunderbird 115 from the installed version 102. Is this possible? It appears as if Ubuntu have stopped providing non-Snap packages for mainstream apps and Thunderbird themselves offer me a tar.bz2 whilst I'd rather use packaged apps.

Will Thunderbird 115 be available as an official .deb file at all; will it be in the repos? What's the best non-Snap way to install it and keep it updated?

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You can easy add the official PPA for Thunderbird beta by adding ppa:mozillateam/thunderbird-next to your system to get Thunderbird 115.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/thunderbird-next
sudo apt update

Worked fine for me.

Link: https://launchpad.net/~mozillateam/+archive/ubuntu/thunderbird-next

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"apt-get" command cannot be used like you want. You may install with it only from repositories. But the correct way is to use "dpkg" or "apt" commands:

sudo dpkg -i package_name.deb

sudo apt install package_name.deb

Using the dpkg may broke the package dependencies, which do not resolve it automatically so you can use apt-get to resolve the issue:

sudo apt-get install -f

Thunderbird 115 – Title Bar Buttons Order Issue

In the new version of Thunderbird, window buttons are provided as client side decorations, i.e., these are drawn by the application itself. If the application then does not follow standards of your desktop environment, the buttons may not match. Apart from editing source code and recompiling Thunderbird yourself, there is little else you can do than to file an issue to the developpers.

To work around, you can disable the client side window buttons by adding classic window decoration. In Thunderbird Settings, General, section "Language & Appearance", uncheck "Hide system window title bar".

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