> > > >> Nope, it was always Sylpheed. > > The potential problem, is that if it won't run on Lubuntu > > Not a problem at all. Any package in the repositories should work just > fine. The only problem with Thunderbird (and any other GTK app) is that > it's likely to bring a bunch of libraries along with it. > > > Do snap package installations work on Lubuntu? > > The important thing to remember here is the sentiment behind the > statement above: Lubuntu *IS* Ubuntu. Ubuntu, ultimately, is the > software in the repositories. The thing that makes the canonical (here > the lowercase is intentional) Ubuntu OS what it is is a particular > selection of packages. This is also true with Lubuntu and every other > flavor of Ubuntu. But they all have the repositories in common. > > > @AG:
Just to add the comment . . . I had a fresh install of Lu Next **highly experimental OS** 18.04 installed, and then went against the suggested method of doing a fresh upgrade for Lu 18.10, and **experimentally** upgraded the unsupported 18.04 via console update/upgrade to what is now an **unrecommended** Lu 18.10 system . . . and somewhere in there Thunderbird Mail has appeared and is functioning perfectly well . . . . As Walter mentions that may have added "bloat" into the libraries of my install . . . nothing wrong with Sylpheed, but, I just like TB . . . . F
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