Thunderbird daily installer package for Debian / Ubuntu

Thunderbird Nightly gets a new version every day and as a consequence, the release notes for the Nightly channel are updated continuously to reflect features that have reached sufficient maturity to benefit from community feedback and bug reports. Features listed here may or may not make a final release of Thunderbird.

Features

• AppStream Metadata: Full AppStream support for software managers and application catalogues
• Application Icons: Multiple resolutions (16, 32, 48, 64, 128, 256px) for optimal display
• Desktop Integration: Proper desktop file and metadata for Linux desktop environments

Building package

    apt-get -y install devscripts dpkg-dev
    git clone https://github.com/Vitexus/ThunderbirdDailyDeb.git
    debuild -i -us -uc -b

Installation

Download from repo.vitexsoftware.com or Build package. Then install:

apt install ./thunderbird-daily_*.deb

Or you can use repo:

sudo apt install lsb-release wget apt-transport-https bzip2
wget -qO- https://repo.vitexsoftware.com/KEY.gpg | sudo tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/vitexsoftware.gpg
echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/vitexsoftware.gpg]  https://repo.vitexsoftware.com  $(lsb_release -sc) main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vitexsoftware.list
sudo apt update
sudo apt install daily

See also: https://github.com/Vitexus/FirefoxNightlyDeb https://github.com/VitexSoftware/FirefoxDevelEditionDeb