How to Install Mozilla Thunderbird 9 on Centos, Red Hat (RHEL) 6.2 / 6.1 / 6, Fedora 16 / 15

Introduction

Mozilla Thunderbird is a free, open source, cross-platform e-mail and news client developed by the Mozilla Foundation. The project strategy is modeled after Mozilla Firefox, a project aimed at creating a web browser. On December 7, 2004, version 1.0 was released, and received over 500,000 downloads in its first three days of release, and 1,000,000 in 10 days.

Mozilla Thunderbird 9 is released on 20 December and today we discuss about it in this tutorial. This tutorial allows you to install Thunderbird 9 on Fedora 16/15/14/13, CentOS 6.2/6.1/6 and Red Hat (RHEL) 6.2/6.1/6 using YUM command. Fedora 16 and Fedora 15 users found Thunderbird 9 on their updates repos, they don't have to install the Remi Repositories as other previous versions of Fedora do. So older Fedora users can also install Thunderbird 9 on their desktop by installing the Remi Dependencies. So just follow the instructions given below.

What's New in Thunderbird
Thunderbird is based on the new Mozilla Gecko 9 engine
New opt-in system for users to send performance and usability data back to Mozilla to improve future versions of Thunderbird
Additional support for Personas in the compose and address book windows
Better keyboard handling for attachments
Windows users can hide the menu bar (and show it with the "alt" key)
Several user interface fixes and improvements

You also check out more features ans other details at the Thunderbird Release Notes.

Installing Mozilla Thunderbird 9 on Fedora, CentOS, and Red Hat (RHEL)

Step 1 : Before beginning the Installation you must log on as Root User and now Open the terminal and enter the following command to enter as a Root user : -

$ su

Alternatively, you can also use

$ sudo -i

Step 2 : Now Install the Remi Repository on the Older versions of Fedora and on CentOS or RHEL. Type the following commands to install the Remi Repository. The Remi Repository are needed on the previous versions of Fedora such as Fedora 12 / 13 /14.

Remi Dependency for Fedora 14


$ rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm

$ rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm

Remi Repository for Fedora 14

$ rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/remi-release-14.rpm

Remi Repository for Fedora 13

$ rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/remi-release-13.rpm

Remi Repository for CentOS / Red Hat (RHEL)

Remi Dependency for CentOS 6 and RHEL 6

$ rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-5.noarch.rpm

Remi Repository for CentOS 6 and Red Hat 6

$ rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-6.rpm

Step 3 : Check Available Thunderbird Versions for Fedora, CentOS and Red Hat and install it with the help of YUM on terminal

For Fedora 16 / 15

$ yum list thunderbird

For CentOS 6 and Red Hat (RHEL) 6

$ yum --enablerepo=remi list thunderbird

Step 4 : Now, Update and Install the Thunderbird 9 with the help of YUM on Terminal

For Fedora 16 / 15

For updating type the following command : -

$ yum update thunderbird

For Installing type the following command : -


$ yum install thunderbird


For CentOS 6 and Red Hat (RHEL) 6




For updating type the following command : -


$ yum --enablerepo=remi update thunderbird

For Installing type the following command : -


$ yum --enablerepo=remi install thunderbird

Step 5 : Finally, you can start the Thunderbird 9 on your Fedora, CentOS and RHEL Desktops with the help of terminal. Start Thunderbird with the help of following command on the terminal : -


$ thunderbird

Alternatively, You can also use Thunderbird (9) launcher and launch the Thunderbird on your desktop.