Installing Proton Mail Bridge for Linux using a DEB file

Proton Mail Bridge is an open-source application that allows you to fully integrate your Proton Mail account with any program that supports IMAP and SMTP. This includes Microsoft Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird, and Apple Mail.

In this article, we will explain how to install the Proton Mail Bridge on your device using a DEB file. The steps outlined in this article should work on most Debian and Ubuntu-based distributions that use the apt package manager.

Open your terminal and follow the steps below.

First, we need to download the Bridge to your device.

Enter the downloads folder:

cd ~/Downloads

Download the Bridge:

wget https://proton.me/download/bridge/protonmail-bridge_3.8.2-1_amd64.deb

Install the Bridge:

sudo apt install ./protonmail-bridge_3.8.2-1_amd64.deb

You should have the Bridge installed on your device now.

Note that the version of Bridge at the time of writing this is 3.8.2, however, in the future this will change, and you will need to change the versions in the commands above. If you do not do so, the Bridge should update to the newest version soon after you launch it.

Optional steps to verify the DEB file

These steps are optional, but do provide additional security by verifying that the DEB file downloaded is the genuine one. If you are having doubts about the source of your installation file, you can follow the steps in this article to verify it.