On 2021-05-18 at 16:08, Bob Bernstein wrote: > '$ sudo apt-cache search seamonkey' does not turn up the > browser/email "suite." > > My spidey sense suggests that the Subject: question, probably as a > consequence of the internal logic (for lack of a better term) of the > unixen "package" situation, is at best moot, and at worst, confused. > > Pls. advise.
As I understand matters, Seamonkey and other branches off the Mozilla family tree are not packaged in Debian, specifically because it's hard enough maintaining security support for just Firefox (and Thunderbird); the Debian security team does not want to have to try to keep up with doing it for any variants on top of that. There shouldn't be any theoretical reason why you couldn't download the source and build it locally, but depending on what the dependency and build systems are like nowadays, that might get complicated. It's also possible that some third parties may have already packaged it into .deb form, albeit not necessarily in a way that'll work with any particular Debian release; if you want to search for such a thing, and risk creating a FrankenDebian to some degree with the result, you might turn up useful results. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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