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Installed Thunderbird on Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS, tried to use it, got frustrated with it and now not wanting it on my system.

Tried apt purge, remove, autoremove, autoclean. Nothing worked. It is still there and launching. There is no /.thunderbird in home dir.

This is the first time I'm seeing such an un-removable software.

How can I get rid of Thunderbird?

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    With 24.04 thunderbird has been converted to a snap by default. What does sudo snap list show? And maybe sudo snap remove --purge thunderbird Commented Jan 5 at 21:28
  • Thanks! Removed it now with "snap remove thunderbird". I did'n knot that. Thanks again. Commented Jan 5 at 22:07
  • @jurijus01 Would you want to add your own answer to the question (below), or should we close it as "problem went away"? Commented Jan 5 at 22:11
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    Maybe @oldfred wants to get points for his answer? If I just close it, not sure they will Commented Jan 5 at 22:18

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With 24.04 thunderbird has been converted to a snap by default. What does this show:

sudo snap list sudo snap remove --purge thunderbird

More info on removing snaps:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1280707/how-to-uninstall-snap

If you want the .deb from the ppa to replace the snap version.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1513445/how-to-install-latest-version-of-thunderbird-as-a-traditional-deb-package-withou

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  • Would never have thought something I install with apt, need to remove with snap. Mozilla Foundation - you are the best Commented Jan 6 at 12:20
  • @jurijus01 Using the special packaging system created for Ubuntu in order to provide Thunderbird on Ubuntu 24.04 was a decision made by Ubuntu. In addition, the Thunderbird snap is currently published by Ubuntu [Canonical], not Mozilla: snapcraft.io/thunderbird Commented Jan 7 at 11:56
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Use the locate function (mlocate or plocate) and search for "thunderbird". Then delete each instance it finds until there are no more. Update the updatedb a few times as you do the searches. Soon there will be no references to thunderbird left.

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In Ubuntu 22, thunderbird was not installed as a snap. To remove:

apt list --installed | grep thunderbird

Depending on that output, your commands below may vary:

sudo apt purge thunderbird-gnome-support sudo apt purge thunderbird-locale-en-us sudo apt purge thunderbird-locale-en sudo apt purge thunderbird

Then, to verify it's gone:

apt list --installed | grep thunderbird
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  • However, the OP notes that removing it with snap was indeed their solution Commented Aug 14 at 8:50

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