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Ubuntu 24.04 Plans Switch to Thunderbird Snap from DEB

If you’re an Ubuntu user who uses the Thunderbird e-mail client there are some interesting changes on the way you will want to know about. First up, Canonical’s Thunderbird snap package is now being built using source code rather than repacking upstream binaries. That subtle-sounding difference offers some decent-sounding opportunities. For one, the change will allow the Thunderbird snap to be built for architectures other than AMD64, thereby enabling the Thunderbird snap to (theoretically; it’s not currently) be installed in Ubuntu running on, say, the Raspberry Pi — which is neat. Secondly, by building the Thunderbird snap from source code […]

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