Author: andy
Date: 2012-03-14 16:11:21 -0600 (Wed, 14 Mar 2012)
New Revision: 9708
Modified:
trunk/BOOK/general.ent
trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
trunk/BOOK/xsoft/graphweb/seamonkey.xml
Log:
seamonkey-2.8
Modified: trunk/BOOK/general.ent
===================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/general.ent 2012-03-14 21:59:17 UTC (rev 9707)
+++ trunk/BOOK/general.ent 2012-03-14 22:11:21 UTC (rev 9708)
@@ -894,7 +894,7 @@
<!ENTITY openoffice-version "3.2.1">
<!-- Chapter 37 -->
-<!ENTITY seamonkey-version "2.7.2">
+<!ENTITY seamonkey-version "2.8">
<!-- Don't forget xulrunner -->
<!ENTITY firefox-version "11.0">
Modified: trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml 2012-03-14 21:59:17 UTC
(rev 9707)
+++ trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml 2012-03-14 22:11:21 UTC
(rev 9708)
@@ -68,6 +68,9 @@
<listitem>
<para>[krejzi] - libexif 0.6.20.</para>
</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>[abenton] - Seamonkey 2.8.</para>
+ </listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
Modified: trunk/BOOK/xsoft/graphweb/seamonkey.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/xsoft/graphweb/seamonkey.xml 2012-03-14 21:59:17 UTC (rev
9707)
+++ trunk/BOOK/xsoft/graphweb/seamonkey.xml 2012-03-14 22:11:21 UTC (rev
9708)
@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@
"http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/seamonkey/releases/&seamonkey-version;/source/seamonkey-&seamonkey-version;.source.tar.bz2";>
<!ENTITY seamonkey-download-ftp
"ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/seamonkey/releases/&seamonkey-version;/source/seamonkey-&seamonkey-version;.source.tar.bz2";>
- <!ENTITY seamonkey-md5sum "44f9bd3c68951f2f21ab0f1fea123383">
- <!ENTITY seamonkey-size "93.5 MB">
+ <!ENTITY seamonkey-md5sum "a7128f6bcd16bebed4a7c3487b69c38f">
+ <!ENTITY seamonkey-size "97 MB">
<!ENTITY seamonkey-buildsize "3 GB (46 MB installed)">
<!ENTITY seamonkey-time "26.6 SBU">
]>
@@ -31,92 +31,122 @@
<sect2 role="package">
<title>Introduction to SeaMonkey</title>
- <para><application>SeaMonkey</application> is a browser suite, the Open
- Source sibling of <application>Netscape</application>. It includes the
- browser, composer, mail and news clients, and an IRC client. It is the
- follow-on to the Mozilla browser suite.</para>
+ <para>
+ <application>SeaMonkey</application> is a browser suite, the Open Source
+ sibling of <application>Netscape</application>. It includes the browser,
+ composer, mail and news clients, and an IRC client. It is the follow-on
+ to the Mozilla browser suite.
+ </para>
- <para>The Mozilla project also hosts two subprojects that aim to satisfy
- the needs of users who don't need the complete browser suite or prefer
- to have separate applications for browsing and e-mail. These subprojects
- are <xref linkend="firefox"/> and <xref linkend="thunderbird"/>. Both are
- based on the <application>Mozilla</application> source code.
- <!-- if you delete the - -enable-application=suite option,
- <application>Thunderbird</application> will be built from this source
- tarball...--></para>
+ <para>
+ The Mozilla project also hosts two subprojects that aim to satisfy the
+ needs of users who don't need the complete browser suite or prefer to
have
+ separate applications for browsing and e-mail. These subprojects are
+ <xref linkend="firefox"/> and <xref linkend="thunderbird"/>. Both are
+ based on the <application>Mozilla</application> source code.
+ </para>
&lfs71_checked;
<bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
<itemizedlist spacing="compact">
<listitem>
- <para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&seamonkey-download-http;"/></para>
+ <para>
+ Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&seamonkey-download-http;"/>
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para>Download (FTP): <ulink url="&seamonkey-download-ftp;"/></para>
+ <para>
+ Download (FTP): <ulink url="&seamonkey-download-ftp;"/>
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para>Download MD5 sum: &seamonkey-md5sum;</para>
+ <para>
+ Download MD5 sum: &seamonkey-md5sum;
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para>Download size: &seamonkey-size;</para>
+ <para>
+ Download size: &seamonkey-size;
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para>Estimated disk space required: &seamonkey-buildsize;</para>
+ <para>
+ Estimated disk space required: &seamonkey-buildsize;
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para>Estimated build time: &seamonkey-time;</para>
+ <para>
+ Estimated build time: &seamonkey-time;
+ </para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<bridgehead renderas="sect3">SeaMonkey Dependencies</bridgehead>
<bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
- <para role="required"><xref linkend="alsa-lib"/>, <xref linkend="gtk2"/>
- <xref linkend="zip"/> and <xref linkend="unzip"/></para>
+ <para role="required">
+ <xref linkend="alsa-lib"/>,
+ <xref linkend="gtk2"/>,
+ <xref linkend="zip"/> and
+ <xref linkend="unzip"/>.
+ </para>
<note>
- <para><application>libjpeg</application> and
- <application>libpng</application> (patched for apng support) should have
- been installed before <application>gdk-pixbuf</application> and should
- exist on your system. If for some strange reason you haven't
- installed them, you should remove the <option>--with-system-jpeg</option>
- and <option>--with-system-png</option> options from the
- <filename>mozconfig</filename> file created below.</para>
+ <para>
+ <application>libjpeg</application> and
<application>libpng</application>
+ (patched for apng support) should have been installed before
+ <application>gdk-pixbuf</application> and should exist on your system.
+ If for some strange reason you haven't installed them, you should
remove
+ the <option>--with-system-jpeg</option> and
+ <option>--with-system-png</option> options from the
+ <filename>mozconfig</filename> file created below.
+ </para>
</note>
<bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
- <para role="recommended"><xref linkend="yasm"/> or
- <xref linkend="libvpx"/> (to allow <application>Seamonkey</application> to
- play webm videos).</para>
+ <para role="recommended">
+ <xref linkend="yasm"/> or <xref linkend="libvpx"/>
+ (to allow <application>Seamonkey</application> to play webm videos).
+ </para>
<bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
- <para role="optional"><xref linkend="dbus-glib"/>,
- <xref linkend="startup-notification"/>, <xref linkend="sqlite"/>,
- <ulink url="http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/";>Hunspell</ulink>,
- <ulink url="http://libevent.org/";>Libevent</ulink>,
- <xref linkend="doxygen"/>, <xref linkend="gnome-vfs"/> and
- <xref linkend="libgnomeui"/> (for gnome integration),
- <xref linkend="libnotify"/>, <xref linkend="nspr"/>, <xref linkend="nss"/>,
- <xref linkend="wireless_tools"/>,
- <ulink url="http://www.valgrind.org/";>Valgrind</ulink> (only for testing
- the jemalloc code) and <xref linkend="wget"/></para>
+ <para role="optional">
+ <xref linkend="dbus-glib"/>,
+ <xref linkend="startup-notification"/>,
+ <xref linkend="sqlite"/>,
+ <ulink url="http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/";>Hunspell</ulink>,
+ <ulink url="http://libevent.org/";>Libevent</ulink>,
+ <xref linkend="doxygen"/>,
+ <xref linkend="gnome-vfs"/> and <xref linkend="libgnomeui"/>
+ (for integration with the old version of
<application>Gnome</application>),
+ <xref linkend="libnotify"/>,
+ <xref linkend="nspr"/>,
+ <xref linkend="nss"/>,
+ <xref linkend="wireless_tools"/>,
+ <ulink url="http://www.valgrind.org/";>Valgrind</ulink> (only for testing
+ the jemalloc code) and
+ <xref linkend="wget"/>
+ </para>
- <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
- <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/seamonkey"/></para>
+ <para condition="html" role="usernotes">
+ User Notes: <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/seamonkey"/>
+ </para>
</sect2>
<sect2 role="installation">
<title>Installation of SeaMonkey</title>
- <para>The configuration of <application>SeaMonkey</application> is
- accomplished by creating a <filename>mozconfig</filename> file containing
- the desired configuration options. A default <filename>mozconfig</filename>
- file is created below. To see the entire list of available configuration
- options (and an abbreviated description of each one), issue
- <command>./configure --help</command>. You may also wish to review the
- entire file and uncomment any other desired options. Create the file by
- issuing the following command:</para>
+ <para>
+ The configuration of <application>SeaMonkey</application> is accomplished
+ by creating a <filename>mozconfig</filename> file containing the desired
+ configuration options. A default <filename>mozconfig</filename> file is
+ created below. To see the entire list of available configuration options
+ (and an abbreviated description of each one), issue
+ <command>./configure --help</command>. You may also wish to review the
+ entire file and uncomment any other desired options. Create the file by
+ issuing the following command:
+ </para>
<screen><?dbfo keep-together="auto"?><userinput>cat > .mozconfig <<
"EOF"
# If you have a multicore machine you can speed up the build by running
@@ -162,20 +192,26 @@
ac_add_options --disable-tests
EOF</userinput></screen>
- <para>Compile <application>SeaMonkey</application> by running the
- following command:</para>
+ <para>
+ Compile <application>SeaMonkey</application> by running the following
+ command:
+ </para>
<screen><userinput>sed -i
's#VPX_CODEC_USE_INPUT_PARTITION#VPX_CODEC_USE_INPUT_FRAGMENTS#' \
mozilla/configure &&
make -f client.mk</userinput></screen>
- <para>This package does not come with a test suite. However, it
- can be launched from the build directory before installing with the
- command line:
-
<userinput>moz-build-dir/mozilla/dist/seamonkey/seamonkey</userinput></para>
+ <para>
+ This package does not come with a test suite. However, if
+ <application>X</application> is running it can be launched
+ from the build directory before installing with the command line:
+ <userinput>moz-build-dir/mozilla/dist/seamonkey/seamonkey</userinput>
+ </para>
- <para>Install <application>SeaMonkey</application> by issuing the following
- commands as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>
+ <para>
+ Install <application>SeaMonkey</application> by issuing the following
+ commands as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
+ </para>
<screen role="root"><userinput>make -C moz-build-dir install &&
mkdir -pv /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins &&
@@ -186,72 +222,90 @@
<sect2 role="commands">
<title>Command Explanations</title>
- <para><command>sed -i 's#VPX_CODEC_USE ...</command>: This fixes
- mozilla's <command>configure</command> script to properly detect
- libvpx-v1.0.0. This sed is not needed if you have libvpx-v0.9.7 or earlier
- installed or if you've not installed <xref linkend="libvpx"/>.</para>
+ <para>
+ <command>sed -i 's#VPX_CODEC_USE_INPUT_PARTITION ...</command>: This
fixes
+ mozilla's <command>configure</command> script to properly detect
+ <xref linkend="libvpx"/>. This sed is not needed if you have
libvpx-v0.9.7
+ or earlier installed or if you've not installed
+ <application>Libvpx</application>.
+ </para>
- <para><command>make -f client.mk</command>: Mozilla products are
- packaged to allow the use of a configuration file which can be used to
- pass the configuration settings to the <command>configure</command>
- command. <command>make</command> uses the <filename>client.mk</filename>
- file to get initial configuration and setup parameters.</para>
+ <para>
+ <command>make -f client.mk</command>: Mozilla products are packaged to
+ allow the use of a configuration file which can be used to pass the
+ configuration settings to the <command>configure</command> command.
+ <command>make</command> uses the <filename>client.mk</filename> file to
+ get initial configuration and setup parameters.
+ </para>
- <para><command>make -C moz-build-dir install</command>: this runs
- <command>make install</command> inside the moz-build-dir
- directory.</para>
+ <para>
+ <command>make -C moz-build-dir install</command>: this runs
+ <command>make install</command> inside the moz-build-dir directory.
+ </para>
- <para><command>ln -s ../mozilla/plugins
- /usr/lib/seamonkey-&seamonkey-version;</command>: this creates a symlink to
- <filename class="directory">/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins</filename> for the
- sake of compatibility, to keep all your plugins in the place mozilla
- plugins are normally found.</para>
+ <para>
+ <command>ln -s ../mozilla/plugins
+ /usr/lib/seamonkey-&seamonkey-version;</command>: this creates a symlink
+ to <filename class="directory">/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins</filename> for
the
+ sake of compatibility, to keep all your plugins in the place mozilla
+ plugins are normally found.
+ </para>
</sect2>
<sect2 role="configuration">
<title>Configuring SeaMonkey</title>
- <para>If you deleted the <option>--disable-webm</option> option from your
- <filename>mozconfig</filename>, your <application>Seamonkey</application>
- can play most youtube videos without the need for the flash plugin. To
- enable this, go to <ulink
- url="http://www.youtube.com/html5";>http://www.youtube.com/html5</ulink>
- and click on 'Join the HTML5 Trial' (needs cookies enabled).</para>
+ <para>
+ If you deleted the <option>--disable-webm</option> option from your
+ <filename>mozconfig</filename>, your <application>Seamonkey</application>
+ can play most youtube videos without the need for the flash plugin. To
+ enable this, go to <ulink url="http://www.youtube.com/html5"/> and click
+ on 'Join the HTML5 Trial' (needs cookies enabled).
+ </para>
- <para>For installing various <application>SeaMonkey</application> plugins,
- refer to <ulink url="http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux.html";>Mozdev's
- PluginDoc Project</ulink>.</para>
+ <para>
+ For installing various <application>SeaMonkey</application> plugins,
refer
+ to <ulink url="http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux.html";>Mozdev's PluginDoc
+ Project</ulink>.
+ </para>
- <para>Along with using the <quote>Preferences</quote> menu to configure
- <application>SeaMonkey</application>'s options and preferences to suit
- individual tastes, finer grain control of many options is only available
- using a tool not available from the general menu system. To access this
- tool, you'll need to open a browser window and enter
- <systemitem role="url">about:config</systemitem> in the
- address bar. This will display a list of the configuration preferences and
- information related to each one. You can use the <quote>Filter:</quote> bar
- to enter search criteria and narrow down the listed items. Changing a
- preference can be done using two methods. One, if the preference has a
- boolean value (True/False), simply double-click on the preference to toggle
- the value and two, for other preferences simply right-click on the desired
- line, choose <quote>Modify</quote> from the menu and change the value.
- Creating new preference items is accomplished in the same way, except
- choose <quote>New</quote> from the menu and provide the desired data into
- the fields when prompted.</para>
+ <para>
+ Along with using the <quote>Preferences</quote> menu to configure
+ <application>SeaMonkey</application>'s options and preferences to suit
+ individual tastes, finer grain control of many options is only available
+ using a tool not available from the general menu system. To access this
+ tool, you'll need to open a browser window and enter
+ <systemitem role="url">about:config</systemitem> in the address bar. This
+ will display a list of the configuration preferences and information
+ related to each one. You can use the <quote>Filter:</quote> bar to enter
+ search criteria and narrow down the listed items. Changing a preference
+ can be done using two methods. One, if the preference has a boolean value
+ (True/False), simply double-click on the preference to toggle the value
+ and two, for other preferences simply right-click on the desired line,
+ choose <quote>Modify</quote> from the menu and change the value. Creating
+ new preference items is accomplished in the same way, except choose
+ <quote>New</quote> from the menu and provide the desired data into the
+ fields when prompted.
+ </para>
<tip>
- <para>There is a multitude of configuration parameters you can tweak to
- customize <application>SeaMonkey</application>. A very extensive list
- of these parameters can be found at <ulink
- url="http://preferential.mozdev.org/preferences.html"/>.</para>
+ <para>
+ There is a multitude of configuration parameters you can tweak to
+ customize <application>SeaMonkey</application>. A very extensive list
of
+ these parameters can be found at
+ <ulink url="http://preferential.mozdev.org/preferences.html"/>.
+ </para>
</tip>
- <para>If you use a desktop environment like
<application>Gnome</application>
- or <application>KDE</application> you may wish to create a
- seamonkey.desktop file so that <application>Seamonkey</application>
- appears in the panel's menus. If you didn't enable
- startup-notification in your mozconfig change the StartupNotify line to
- false. As the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>
+ <para>
+ If you use a desktop environment like <application>Gnome</application> or
+ <application>KDE</application> you may wish to create a
+ <filename>seamonkey.desktop</filename> file so that
+ <application>Seamonkey</application> appears in the panel's menus. If you
+ didn't enable <application>Startup-Notification</application> in your
+ mozconfig change the StartupNotify line to false. As the
+ <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
+ </para>
<screen role="root"><userinput>cat >
/usr/share/applications/seamonkey.desktop << "EOF"
[Desktop Entry]
@@ -278,9 +332,11 @@
<seglistitem>
<seg>seamonkey</seg>
- <seg>Numerous libraries, browser, and email/newsgroup components,
- plugins, extensions, and helper modules installed in <filename
-
class="directory">/usr/lib/seamonkey-&seamonkey-version;</filename></seg>
+ <seg>
+ Numerous libraries, browser, and email/newsgroup components, plugins,
+ extensions, and helper modules installed in <filename
+ class="directory">/usr/lib/seamonkey-&seamonkey-version;</filename>
+ </seg>
<seg>/usr/lib/seamonkey-&seamonkey-version;</seg>
</seglistitem>
</segmentedlist>
@@ -293,12 +349,9 @@
<varlistentry id="seamonkey-prog">
<term><command>seamonkey</command></term>
<listitem>
- <para>is a browser/email/newsgroup/chat client suite. The
- various components such as the Composer, mail-news client,
- IRC chat client, and address book can be accessed from the menu after
- <command>seamonkey</command> starts or via command-line switches to
- the <command>seamonkey</command> script. Issue
- <command>man seamonkey</command> for additional information.</para>
+ <para>
+ is Mozilla browser/email/newsgroup/chat client suite.
+ </para>
<indexterm zone="seamonkey seamonkey-prog">
<primary sortas="b-seamonkey">seamonkey</primary>
</indexterm>
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