thank you Richard for all this excellent info
the route i showed worked fine on Oneiric but failed on Pangolin
The PPA you showed here works on Pangolin
thank you Richard for all this excellent info
the route i showed worked fine on Oneiric but failed on Pangolin
The PPA you showed here works on Pangolin
Last edited by shantiq; April 27th, 2012 at 10:05 PM.
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Hey, Shantiq, I really want to thank you for posting this! I'm now on 12.04 and was having trouble running Seamonkey from my home folder. Now, I've followed your instructions to the dot and got it working from /usr/local/seamonkey/.
I just want to add a couple of things... To stick it in the Unity Launcher, I added alacarte (MainMenu) from the USC and that allowed me to make a launcher in 12.04 (Unity 3D). Then I started Seamonkey via the Dash and once it was running, I locked it to Unity's launcher on the left.
The other point is that we can find a bunch of icons here and I went with:
/usr/local/seamonkey/chrome/icons/default.png
Once again, a big thank you
ok Maureen lets start absolutely from scratch
when you seethat means you installed that one through the normal way [repository]"Midori %U"
since here we are going from tar that does not apply/work
so let me break it down
1. first the download of the tar; i pick the british one here but of course take the one you need
2. open it and unpack to to home folder it will be named seamonkey by default
Once it is safely in home folder
3.[or where you wish it to be]Code:sudo mv seamonkey /usr/local
4. again create launcher method is good for most recent versions of ubuntu
5.in command in launcherCode:/usr/local/seamonkey/seamonkey
this time
PS thank you Vasa for feedback
Last edited by shantiq; April 26th, 2012 at 12:21 PM.
Linux is Latin for off-the-beaten-track
what I like MOST about our Ubuntu ... The Community ie 50 brains are better than one
Playing with Slackware too now ...
ShanArt
Hi again Shantiq...
Thank you for explaining about the %U bit.... One less mystery in my Ubuntu world is always welcome!
I am currently on my fourth "starting from scratch" with Seamonkey.... He/She and I are becoming quite close friends... We may not yet understand one another.... But we have hopes... Well, one of us does.
I note that your link is to the 2.9 beta version? I have been downloading the 2.8 version in the assumption that it would be safer to do so?
Apart from the bit about using Nautilus Script Manager to create the Launcher, I did everything as per your instructions.... I then used the Main Menu option under Applications > Other > to create a new launcher with the same properties as yours.... I didn't think that would make any difference.... I think that is the way that Vasal did it too?
I have now downloaded the Nautilus Script Manager and will try to get to grips with it tomorrow.... At the moment it just sits there with nothing in the display telling me that scripts must first be installed in /usr/share/nautilus/scripts... But not how to get a script into it.... Am I supposed to use Gedit? Anyway.... Will check that out tomorrow... I don't think it is the cause of the problem.
The "desktop configuration file (application/x-desktop) with the seamonkey logo is exactly the same as yours.... apart from the number of bytes being 277.
But.... I don't think any of that makes any difference because... From everything I have read so far I believe I should be able to double click on the /usr/local/seamonkey/seamonkey shell file and it should run? It asks me if I want to run in terminal, display or run.... But when I select Run...nothing happens.... Which is what is wrong.... but why..... I have the right permission... I am the owner and it is set to execute.... But it doesn't.... No matter how much I plead and cajole.... Nada... Niet... Nothing....
In the folder there is also a "seamonkey-bin" which is also executable ("executable (application/X-executable)
I've just extracted the 2.9 folder and that doesn't run the seamonkey/seamonkey either....
I'm beginning to think this is yet another quirk of the Armel installation... Plus I am not running under Unity but using Gnome Session-Fallback.... But that shouldn't make any difference?
Thank you for your patience Shantiq
ha well it might be the Armel thing
i too run on Gnome Session-Fallback since i LOathe U-know what
Best of luck with it all. No doubt it will become clear at some point
Last edited by shantiq; April 27th, 2012 at 09:04 AM.
Linux is Latin for off-the-beaten-track
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Playing with Slackware too now ...
ShanArt
faster route as indicated earlier on for SEAMONKEY this worked on Precise when the other route would not
Code:sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com C1289A29
CLICK ENTER
THEN ENTER THIS
echo -e "\ndeb http://downloads.sourceforge.net/pro...la/mozilla/apt all main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list > /dev/null
==> get the deb
save the file to Downloads
Code:cd Downloads
Code:sudo dpkg -i seamonkey-mozilla-build_2.9-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
Linux is Latin for off-the-beaten-track
what I like MOST about our Ubuntu ... The Community ie 50 brains are better than one
Playing with Slackware too now ...
ShanArt
Hi Shantiq,
I tried that one yesterday and various other DEB downloads but get the same response when I try to install them "ERROR - WRONG ARCHITECTURE"
Problem is that this is not AMD64 or 386 or any of the normal ones but the NVIDIA TEGRA chip which is a completely different kettle of fish.
These links will give you some idea of what we have been trying to do:
http://www.tabletroms.com/forums/ac1...rsolar-22.html
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM/TEGRA/AC100
But Ubuntu has lost interest in the AC100 now so there has been no build work for months now....Meaning that the software that was already in the repos last year is all that we have/will have....
There is an old version of Seamonkey that I could install but it is 2.0.13 and full of bugs for which I will never be able to get any patches!
I could try installing Precise on here but from other AC100 forums it sounds as though it doesn't work as well as 11.10.... Video doesn't work at all and I doubt I would be much better off......Besides it has been such a difficult "birth" getting this far with the Tegra.
I think I will have to leave my "experminenting" as it stands and use this little machine as it stands now.... Most things work .... pretty fast.... It cost me very little to have a fully functioning "laptop" with all mod cons.... And it is so small and light that it fits easily into a handbag!
On the other hand there is some work being done on Puppy Linux still that may be interesting.... If I can face it, that is!
Cheers Shantiq,
Mo
now you talking
Problem is that this is not AMD64 or 386 or any of the normal ones but the NVIDIA TEGRA chip which is a completely different kettle of fish
Linux is Latin for off-the-beaten-track
what I like MOST about our Ubuntu ... The Community ie 50 brains are better than one
Playing with Slackware too now ...
ShanArt
Just want to mention that I could update Seamonkey to 2.9.1 via the browser's internal update mechanism and so the update was a differential (delta) and small, less that 1 MB. That's great. My other browsers, Firefox and Chrome, installed via ppas, require downloading the full version whenever an update is available.
yes Vasa the "MOnkey" is really quite a kicker
It is really growing on me and find myself there more and more
Last edited by shantiq; May 2nd, 2012 at 10:45 AM.
Linux is Latin for off-the-beaten-track
what I like MOST about our Ubuntu ... The Community ie 50 brains are better than one
Playing with Slackware too now ...
ShanArt
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