Install Tunnelbird

Pick your system. One command installs Tunnelbird on Linux and on macOS; Windows comes later.

One command for every distribution. The script reads your system, checks what it needs and installs Tunnelbird in your home folder: no administrator, no store, no account. To update, run it again.

curl -fsSL https://tunnelbird.ferhatsn.fr/install.sh | sh

The same command installs the native menu bar app on a Mac with Apple silicon (macOS 13 or later), in your Applications folder in your home folder. No store, no account. The first time you open it, it asks for your administrator's password once, to install its helper.

curl -fsSL https://tunnelbird.ferhatsn.fr/install.sh | sh

You need Rust, GTK 4.14 and libadwaita 1.5 or later.

git clone https://github.com/ferhatte10/tunnelbird && cd tunnelbird && make && sudo make install

Read the script first · Do it step by step · Check compatibility

Step by step, without the script

What install.sh does, one command at a time, to type yourself.

Self-contained package, step by step (what the script does)

curl -fsSLO https://github.com/ferhatte10/tunnelbird/releases/latest/download/SHA256SUMS
name=$(sed -n 's/^[0-9a-f]\{64\}  \(tunnelbird-[0-9][^ ]*-linux-'$(uname -m)'\.tar\.gz\)$/\1/p' SHA256SUMS)
curl -fsSLO https://github.com/ferhatte10/tunnelbird/releases/latest/download/$name
grep " $name$" SHA256SUMS | sha256sum -c -
tar -xzf $name -C ~/.local/share
~/.local/share/tunnelbird/AppRun

Build dependencies · Ubuntu, Debian, Mint

sudo apt install libgtk-4-dev libadwaita-1-dev libsoup-3.0-dev gettext desktop-file-utils

Build dependencies · Fedora

sudo dnf install gtk4-devel libadwaita-devel libsoup3-devel gettext desktop-file-utils

Requirements

Linux with NetworkManager (installed by default on desktop distributions). For OpenVPN profiles, NetworkManager's OpenVPN plugin: Tunnelbird shows the command to install it if it is missing.

Download a package

The release holds a package for amd64 and arm64 and its checksums (SHA256SUMS), plus .deb and .rpm files for people who build their own repositories. Releases on GitHub.

Uninstall

Remove the app the way you installed it. Your tunnels stay in your system's network settings until you delete them.

Other distributions

curl -fsSL https://tunnelbird.ferhatsn.fr/install.sh | sh -s -- --uninstall

macOS

sudo "/Library/Application Support/Tunnelbird/tunnelbird-service" --uninstall-daemon
sudo rm -rf "/Library/Application Support/Tunnelbird"
rm -rf ~/Applications/Tunnelbird.app /Applications/Tunnelbird.app

From source

sudo make uninstall