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Unable to install thunderbird

$ sudo apt install thunderbird
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed
  thunderbird
0 to upgrade, 1 to newly install, 0 to remove and 13 not to upgrade.
Need to get 0 B/25.5 kB of archives.
After this operation, 72.7 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 216206 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../thunderbird_2%3a1snap1-0ubuntu3_amd64.deb ...
=> Installing the thunderbird snap
==> Checking connectivity with the snap store
==> Installing the thunderbird snap
error: cannot perform the following tasks:
- Mount snap "thunderbird" (609) (installation not allowed by "dot-thunderbird" plug rule of interface "personal-files" for "thunderbird" snap)
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/thunderbird_2%3a1snap1-0ubuntu3_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 new thunderbird package pre-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/thunderbird_2%3a1snap1-0ubuntu3_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

$ sudo snap install thunderbird
[sudo] password for christol: 
error: cannot perform the following tasks:
  • Mount snap "thunderbird" (609) (installation not allowed by "dot-thunderbird" plug rule of interface "personal-files" for "thunderbird" snap)

guiverc
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Koos
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2 Answers2

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Try This:

First, uninstall Thunderbird

Open a terminal and run in it:

sudo apt remove thunderbird*

Download Thunderbird from official ftpsite

Open a terminal and run in it:

cd ~/Downloads

wget https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/releases/133.0/linux-x86_64/en-US/thunderbird-133.0.tar.bz2

Once the file has been downloaded, in the 'Downloads' folder.

Extract the file using the following command:

tar -xjf thunderbird-133.0.tar.bz2

We should now have an extracted folder called thunderbird.

You need to move the folder to /opt with the following command:

sudo mv thunderbird /opt

Now, a link must be created to start Thunderbird .

Running the following command to create the link to Thunderbird

sudo ln -s /opt/thunderbird/thunderbird /usr/bin/thunderbird
kyodake
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It seems like this is a Bug. Currently the stable version of the thunderbird snap seems to have this Bug. On plain Ubuntu 22.04 the release upgrade process fails since it fails to install thunderbird as a snap and the command sudo apt install thunderbird is correct for ubuntu 24 since they made a apt package which simply installs the snap version of thunderbird.

I hope this will get fixed soon. Is there a Bug report site for ubuntu snaps?

apollo
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