How can I pevent updating thunderbird-esr to latest version

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Hi,
I’m new in this forum, but use linux for some years (serveral OS on backup-servers and some desktops as Debian12 KDE) and did a installation for show how I can migrate to manjaro.

Using thunderbird ESR, a few weeks ago mozilla thunderbird has begun releasing none ESR versions as firefox did.

Every time the update dialog appears it wants to update my latest ESR version to the latest 136 version, I don’t want due to some add-on compatiblity missing.

How can I prevent this update-try?

I did an entry in /etc/pacman.conf in the section IgnorePkg = thunderbird, but it is not working and I don’t know if this is the right way, it would prevent all updates…

Thanks in advance

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I don’t have any idea why this is happening, I think there was a case of fat-fingers somewhere, but pamac states it’s version 136:

$ pamac search thunderbird
[...]
Beta version of standalone mail and news reader from mozilla.org
thunderbird  136.0-1 [Installed]                                                                                                                                                                                            extra
Standalone mail and news reader from mozilla.org

Yet it’s still version 128:

$ pamac info thunderbird
Name                  : thunderbird
Version               : 128.8.0-1
[...]

And my installed version is 128.8.0esr

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My pamac history tells me:

[2025-03-11T11:38:43+0100] [ALPM] upgraded thunderbird (128.8.0-1 -> 136.0-1)

I am on Manjaro stable XFCE and had today much trouble with thunderbird 136 !

Downgraded to version 128.8 and now thunderbird works again.

Mint and fedora ship the ESR version of thunderbird = 128.8. That is much more userfriendly !

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Maybe you could try installing the thunderbird-esr-bin precompiled binary (currently version 128.8.0-1) from the AUR:

pamac build thunderbird-esr-bin

There are no issues reported in the comments section of the AUR page: AUR (en) - thunderbird-esr-bin

Switching back to the repo version at a later time is just as easy:

pamac install thunderbird

or

sudo pacman -Syu thunderbird
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Please see Downgrading packages for the right way.

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