Automatix Thunderbird 2 Restoring to Official Gutsy Package
After I completed the upgrade to Kubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon I realized my Automatix installation was broken. Since I had installed Automatix to get an easy Thunderbird 2 upgrade I said to myself “no big deal” and removed it from my system. This didn’t cause me too much of a worry until I ran an aptitude show thunderbird to see what happened to the automatix package.
I wasn’t comfortable returning to Automatix - I have gotten to the point where I am trying to keep my sources.lst as clean as possible to make upgrades simpler. However without Automatix, I discovered that the package was for all intensive purposes lost. I could run thunderbird but aptitude had no idea it was there and I figured at that point my upgrade path was not so clear. I set about to uninstall it manually and after reading a couple posts on how best to accomplish this I did the following:
sudo rm /usr/bin/thunderbird- This removes the link to /usr/bin.
sudo rm -rf /opt/thunderbird- Automatix Thunderbird 2 was installed in this directory. A nice way to perform an install since files are not trickled all over the place.
sudo rm -rf /etc/thunderbird- There was nothing really in this directory but I noticed it and I deleted it.
sudo rm /usr/share/applications/thunderbird.desktop- Remove the Icon from my KDE Menu
At this point as far as I could tell Thunderbird was uninstalled. Performing an aptitude search thunderbird revealed no installed thunderbird packages. I completed my migration back to a proper ubuntu package by installing the default thunderbird package (which in Gutsy is Thunderbird 2).
sudo aptitude install thunderbird
This restored Thunderbird and my Thunderbird 2 was now back to an official Ubuntu package.