Uninstall Thunderbird email

Have followed all the suggestions on the forum but TB will not uninstall. I have two copies and they still show in the app list and still both open. Any suggestions as to how I get rid of it. Short of doing a complete install of Zorin 17 I can find no other way. TB refuses to accept an import of my emails from an old computer so want it off.

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  • What do you mean with "I have two copies and they still show in the app list and still both open"

Do you have two installations of Thunderbird?
You can run a purge command if you want to get rid of Thunderbird. This command removes the application and purges the data:

apt-get purge packagename

will remove about everything regarding the package packagename , but not the dependencies installed with it on installation.

Particularly useful when you want to 'start all over' with an application because you messed up the configuration. However, it does not remove configuration or data files residing in users home directories, usually in hidden folders there. There is no easy way to get those removed as well.

Source: askubuntu.com

sudo apt remove --purge thunderbird

sudo apt autoremove

rm -rf ~/.thunderbird

rm -rf ~/.mozilla/thunderbird

sudo apt update

Thanks for the reply. What I did was when TB did not work I tried installing it again expecting it to run over the existing install (like Windows does)but no it installed a completely new install. So I now have two both of which will not accept an import from a flash drive with the contents of my emails from my other computer. New to Linux/Zorin so find it more complicated to remove unwanted apps.

Thanks. I will now run through them and see how I get on. :+1:

Hi, Tried that and it got rid of one. Thanks. I have now managed to copy all the contents of the previous computer emails and manually pasted them in to the new TB folder and it now works. Not a conventional way of doing it but now up and running. Regards

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Great to hear you found a decent solution for Thunderbird, i honestly don't bother with local e-mail clients these days. I just use Proton, thankfully they offer a webclient that i constantly use.

Out of curiosity though, why do you need Thunderbird and not just use the webclient? As its more convenient.

If you used the Software Store to reinstall ThunderBird, you likely installed the Flatpak Format rather than reinstalling the standard .deb format.

Hi, Been using Thunderbird for years on the Windows platform and as I have 5 email addresses and have hundreds of emails that I need to keep I needed to transfer them all to the new pc rather than having to keep checking back on one of the other pc's. Just makes it easier. If I did not get many emails I would have probable used what is availble on Zorin.