Thunderbird for Mint

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Thu, 2014-07-10 at 16:16 -0400, Doug wrote:
> My first shot was to look for T/B in the G UI
> package manager, where it was not found

What's the name of the GUI you're using? If you shouldn't know, there
likely is a menu "Help", if so take a look at "About".

Assumed you're using Synaptic, have you ever run "Reload"? Is there some
software that automatically upgrades? have you ever run an upgrade after
updating the package lists of the repositories?

> and my second was the sudo apt-get install routine, which also bombed.

Please post the output of apt-get install. If the output by default
shouldn't be in English run

sudo -i
apt-get update
LANG=C apt-get install thunderbird

(or

LC_ALL=C apt-get install thunderbird)

If it's in English by default 

sudo -i
apt-get update
apt-get install thunderbird

Did you ever run

sudo -i
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade

To upgrade all installed packages and not only the package lists?

Regards,
Ralf