On Saturday, September 15, 2012 11:35:50 AM UTC-4, WaltS wrote: > On 09/15/2012 11:14 AM, Larry Pearson wrote: > > > Since the developers of Ubuntu decided Seamonkey was no longer relevant, > > they removed it during the installation of 2.12.1 without asking. > > Seamonkey was not on the list of applications to be removed that I looked > > at either. > > > > > > So I'm trying to install it on my upgraded system. I followed the > > directions in the installation instructions. I created the directory > > seamonkey2 and changed to that directory. I loaded > > seamonkey-2.12.1.tar.bz2 into that directory. I decompressed the file. > > > > > > tar jxvf seamonkey-2.*.tar.bz2 > > > cd seamonkey > > > > > > Then I tried to execute the file. > > > > > > larry@larry-desktop:~/seamonkey2/seamonkey$ ./seamonkey > > > bash: ./seamonkey: No such file or directory > > > > > > The file is there. > > > > > > larry@larry-desktop:~/seamonkey2/seamonkey$ ls -l seam* > > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 larry larry 124340 Sep 9 09:09 seamonkey > > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 larry larry 124344 Sep 9 09:09 seamonkey-bin > > > > > > Any ideas? This is an AMD Linux-64 system if that makes any difference. > > > > > > > Was it the 32-bit build? > > > > Delete that folder, and try again with the contributed 64-bit version > > found under "Contributed Builds" at the bottom of this page. > > > > http://www.seamonkey-project.org/releases/#2.12.1 > > > > -- > > Fedora 17 (64-bit) > > Gnome or KDE Desktop > > Thunderbird Earlybird
Thanks Walt. The 64-bit version fixed the problem. I can't say that I'm impressed with the Ubuntu error message. I wish more people would use the 64 bit versions. Maybe we'd get some of the problems fixed. Larry _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
