Ubuntu: Install Thunderbird 3.0 on Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic)

Mozilla’s email client Thunderbird 3 was released just a few days back. In the release page, however only the .tar file was available for Linux. In this post we will show you how to install Thunderbird 3 in Ubuntu 9.10 from the Mozilla PPA.

Add the Mozilla PPA in your source list using:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa

Update source list using:

sudo apt-get update

Install Thunderbird 3 using:

sudo apt-get install thunderbird-3.0