On 08/17/2014 10:48 PM, Bret Busby wrote: > Hello. > > I am hoping that I have not previously posted this query to this list. > > As the Debian Project has omitted iceape, its derivative of Seamonkey, > from Debian 7, I am wondering what is the prospect of Seamonkey being > released as a .deb package for installation on Debian 7. > > I had tried installing the Seamonkey tarball, according to the published > instructions, and could not then get Seamonkey to work.
You don't need a .deb. All you need to do is create a /home/<user>/seamonkey directory, copy the tarball to that directory, extract it there, and then run $ /home/<user>/seamonkey/seamonkey/seamonkey Create a menu link with the same, and select the icon from $/home/<user>/seamonkey/seamonkey/chrome/icons/default/default.png Doesn't get much simpler than that. If you can't figure out how to create a menu entry, you can drop this into a gedit file into #!/usr/bin/env xdg-open [Desktop Entry] Categories=GTK;Network; GenericName=Internet Suite Icon[en_US]=/home/<yourusernamehere>/seamonkey/seamonkey/chrome/icons/default/seamonkey.png NoDisplay=false Terminal=false Type=Application Exec=/home/<yourusernamehere>/seamonkey/seamonkey/seamonkey %u Name[en_US]=Mozilla SeaMonkey Name=Mozilla SeaMonkey Comment[en_US]=Mozilla SeaMonkey Comment=Mozilla SeaMonkey > > As a .deb package, software is usually installed, with all dependencies > taken care of, and the launch link, added to the appropriate desktop > menu, so it makes it all, relatively simple. > > The system upon which I was unable to get Seamonkey to work (and I am > not sure that it properly installed), is Debian 7 amd64 LXDE. Use the 64bit tarball: <http://www.seamonkey-project.org/releases/2.29.1> Bottom of page: Linux/x86_64 Linux/x86_64 .tar.bz2 (readme) (MD5 sum) (SHA1 sum) (ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/seamonkey/releases/2.29.1/contrib/seamonkey-2.29.1.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2) > > I note that, on the web page at > http://www.seamonkey-project.org/releases/ > the download for MS Windows, is a .exe installer, so I suppose that what > I am seeking, is the equivalent, as a .deb package for Debian 7 amd64 . > > Thank you in anticipation. > > -- > Bret Busby > Armadale > West Australia > .............. > > "So once you do know what the question actually is, > you'll know what the answer means." > - Deep Thought, > Chapter 28 of Book 1 of > "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: > A Trilogy In Four Parts", > written by Douglas Adams, > published by Pan Books, 1992 > .................................................... > _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
