Kubuntu Minimal Install - Thunderbird broken

[simonsaysthis]

Hello. When you do a clean minimal install of Kubuntu Jammy, it is not possible to install Thunderbird. Error says latest version of Thunderbird is already installed but it still cannot be launched nor found. I saw that this is a bug dating back to 18.04.

[rab0171610]

You could try

sudo apt purge thunderbird

sudo apt install thunderbird

Are you starting the program from the start menu or from a terminal?
If you are launching from a terminal:

thunderbird

is there any output?
What is the output of:

ls -al /usr/bin | grep thunderbird

[jlittle]

I suspect this is a snap issue. I've heard that Thunderbird in the Jammy repos is a snap, and maybe the minimal install does not have the snaps stuff, or not enough of it.

[claydoh]

You could try

sudo apt purge thunderbird

sudo apt install thunderbird

This process almost never does anything useful for these situations, unfortunately.

I suspect this is a snap issue. I've heard that Thunderbird in the Jammy repos is a snap, and maybe the minimal install does not have the snaps stuff, or not enough of it.

Tbird is not a Snap in 22.04, so this won't be an issue, in this case.

[rab0171610]

This process almost never does anything useful for these situations, unfortunately.

I agree but I actually had to do it last night with VLC and it worked. Would not update, was holding back system updates. Uninstalled VLC. Updated system. Reinstalled VLC.
I suggested it because he had same situation, would not install and is not present. So in that case, there is slight possibility that removing it would allow to install without error and then cleanly reinstalling could fix the issue.