Thunderbird 10 was released a few days back. This new version most importantly brings:
http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/10.0/releasenotes/
Lucid, Maverick and Natty Installation
Thunderbird 10 can be installed in Ubuntu Lucid, Maverick and Natty from the 'Stable PPA'. If you have already added that PPA to your Software Sources, and you have Thunderbird already installed, all you need to do is to install the available updates via the Update Manager.
If you didn't add that PPA yet and want to upgrade your already installed Thunderbird to the latest version, run from a Terminal:
If you haven't installed Thunderbird yet, just replace the last command above with:
PPA: https://launchpad.net/~mozillateam/+archive/thunderbird-stable
Oneiric Installation
Oneiric users will be updated to Thunderbird 10 automatically via the Update Manager. Thunderbird 10 isn't available in the official repositories of Oneiric yet, but it should be there soon. You can keep an eye on it by checking this site:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=thunderbird&searchon=names&suite=all§ion=all
Update 2/19/2012: Thunderbird 10 is now available in the official repos, finally.
To upgrade your installed Thunderbird via command line, run:
- New ability to search the Web
- Improvements to email search
- Several fixes when drafting email
- And several other platform fixes
http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/10.0/releasenotes/
Thunderbird 10 can be installed in Ubuntu Lucid, Maverick and Natty from the 'Stable PPA'. If you have already added that PPA to your Software Sources, and you have Thunderbird already installed, all you need to do is to install the available updates via the Update Manager.
If you didn't add that PPA yet and want to upgrade your already installed Thunderbird to the latest version, run from a Terminal:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/thunderbird-stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
If you haven't installed Thunderbird yet, just replace the last command above with:
sudo apt-get install thunderbird
PPA: https://launchpad.net/~mozillateam/+archive/thunderbird-stable
Oneiric users will be updated to Thunderbird 10 automatically via the Update Manager. Thunderbird 10 isn't available in the official repositories of Oneiric yet, but it should be there soon. You can keep an eye on it by checking this site:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=thunderbird&searchon=names&suite=all§ion=all
Update 2/19/2012: Thunderbird 10 is now available in the official repos, finally.
To upgrade your installed Thunderbird via command line, run:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get upgrade
