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Suggestion:<br>
Please add a deb download to the Official Thunderbird Beta [2].<br>
<br>
<br>
After many attempts by numerous people, Thunderbird beta is still
57.0b2 at [1], while the current official beta [2] is 59.0b1. This
is not good for Thunderbird planning and development. Is there a
plan to resolve the Thunderbird beta situation for Linux as the
“Official PPA for Thunderbird Beta” [1] seems to no longer be
frequently updated?<br>
<br>
It would make installing Thunderbird on Linux almost as simple as
installing it on Windows.<br>
For example the instructions to replace Thunderbird with a newer
version would be:<br>
1. Extract Thunderbird_59.0b1_Linux_x85-64_deb.tar.gz<br>
2. Open terminal in deb folder<br>
3. sudo dpkg -i *.deb<br>
<br>
LibreOffice has instructions which makes it easier to install [3].
Downloading LibreOffice [4] has a “Choose your operating system:”
drop-down to enable quick selection of Linux, Mac and Windows
downloads. Could features from LibreOffice be incorporated in the
Thunderbird website [5]?<br>
<br>
Thank you<br>
<br>
<br>
[1]
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://launchpad.net/~mozillateam/+archive/ubuntu/thunderbird-next">https://launchpad.net/~mozillateam/+archive/ubuntu/thunderbird-next</a><br>
[2] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/channel/">https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/channel/</a><br>
[3]
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://libre-software.net/how-to-install-libreoffice-on-ubuntu-linux-mint/">http://libre-software.net/how-to-install-libreoffice-on-ubuntu-linux-mint/</a><br>
[4] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download/">https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download/</a><br>
[5] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.thunderbird.net/">https://www.thunderbird.net/</a>
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