

You can also post a question in the Firefox Portable Support Forum. Please read through the various topics to see if any of them address your question. To verify that the installation was successful, click the menu button, click Help and select More Troubleshooting Information.Many of the most common issues that arise when using Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition are addressed here. After you downloaded the file, move it to /usr/local/share/applications. Ln -s /opt/thunderbird/thunderbird /usr/local/bin/thunderbirdĪlternatively, if wget is not installed on your computer, go to the URL mentioned above, right-click on the page to open the contextual menu and select Save Page As.

Create a symlink to the Thunderbird executable: Move the uncompressed Thunderbird folder to /opt:ĥ. Extract the contents of the downloaded file by typing:Ĥ. Open a terminal and go to the folder where your download has been saved. Go to the Thunderbird's download page and click on the Free Download button.Ģ. To do so in most distributions, open a terminal and type: /usr/bin/thunderbird.ġ. To run the version installed with your package manager, you will need to execute the binary from a terminal.

This method is the recommended way because it ensures Thunderbird and all the required libraries are installed and configured optimally for your distribution. To install Thunderbird using your distribution package manager, please refer to your Linux distribution's documentation. Installing from your distribution package manager (Recommended) 3 Installing Thunderbird manually (For advanced users).1 Installing from your distribution package manager (Recommended).
