James Mc wrote on 10/01/2014 04:32 AM:
If you are still looking for a deb package...
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ubuntuzilla/files/mozilla/apt/pool/main/s/seamonkey-mozilla-build/
“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”
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James
Indiana
You're the man James! Many thanks for this info!
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 02:06:12 -0700
Subject: Re: Seamonkey as .deb package
To: [email protected]
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
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