birdtray command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

birdtray: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: birdtray: command not found

Solutions to birdtray: command not found

How To Fix birdtray: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu birdtray is provided by birdtray package.

birdtray is:

Birdtray provides systray notifications for Thunderbird. It displays the count of unread mail, hides the Thunderbird window when not in use, and restores it on clicking the tray icon. It also provides a context menu with commands such as starting composing a new mail.

It is a nasty hack – an external process looking at Thunderbird’s insides, it suffers from problems like noticing new mails only after a delay, having to restart Thunderbird just to hide its window, etc – you’d want to use an extension like firetray instead – but, it is likely that support for Thunderbird XUL extensions will be dropped soon, possibly by the time you read these words.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install birdtray

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install birdtray.

sudo apt -y install birdtray

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install birdtray

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix birdtray command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.