Thunderbird install instead of IceDove on Trisquel8
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Hello!
I have Icedove installed in my Trisquel8 system. But it seems:
- Icedove is not the latest one - 52.9.1 version from Trisquel8 repository seems to be over a year old? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Thunderbird#Releases
I am worried for security updates - is our mail client patched for security?
- IceDove is no longer necessary, since licensing problem was apparently resolved with Thunderbird:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_software_rebranded_by_Debian#Icedove
But when I try simply
sudo apt-get install thunderbird
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'icedove' instead of 'thunderbird'
icedove is already the newest version (1:52.9.1+build3-0ubuntu0.16.04.1+8.0trisquel1).
So my question - is there more secure to install Thunderbird mail client over current Icedove in Trisquel8? And how one does install Thunderbird?
Thank you
Get Ubuntu's package and install with gdebi or dpkg.
https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/thunderbird
Or download a tarball from the official page.
https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/
Debian's deb should work the same.
https://packages.debian.org/stretch/amd64/thunderbird/download
In case of derivatives of Debian, Firefox branding can be used as long as the patches applied are in the same category as described above. Ubuntu having a different packaging, this does not apply to that distribution.
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=815006
So it's still non-free? It seems to be the case, since https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Thunderbird still redirects to https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Icedove .
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