Re: Installing Seamonkey "manually" vs via Synaptic / Apt (Ubuntu / Mint)

2010-05-26 Thread Tony
NoOp wrote: On 05/25/2010 04:40 PM, Tony wrote: ... I have a related question - I have set up my laptop with Ubuntu 10.4 LTS and installed 2.0.4 from the Ubuntu Software Respository. Seems to be working fine but no mail/news just browser& composer. I think I see the appropriate files for mail/n

Re: Installing Seamonkey "manually" vs via Synaptic / Apt (Ubuntu / Mint)

2010-05-25 Thread NoOp
On 05/25/2010 04:40 PM, Tony wrote: ... > I have a related question - I have set up my laptop with Ubuntu 10.4 LTS > and installed 2.0.4 from the Ubuntu Software Respository. Seems to be > working fine but no mail/news just browser & composer. I think I see the > appropriate files for mail/news

Re: Installing Seamonkey "manually" vs via Synaptic / Apt (Ubuntu / Mint)

2010-05-25 Thread Tony
Jens Hatlak wrote: Rob Lindauer wrote: The Seamonkey install instructions I've been using (successfully) for a year or two have me expand the Seamonkey tar/bz2 file into a subdirectory under home, and manually add an entry in my Gnome/Kde menu, as opposed to installing via Synaptic/Apt. The rati

Re: Installing Seamonkey "manually" vs via Synaptic / Apt (Ubuntu / Mint)

2010-05-25 Thread Jens Hatlak
NoOp wrote: On 05/23/2010 02:23 PM, Jens Hatlak wrote: Rob Lindauer wrote: The Seamonkey install instructions I've been using (successfully) for a year or two have me expand the Seamonkey tar/bz2 file into a subdirectory under home, and manually add an entry in my Gnome/Kde menu, as opposed to

Re: Installing Seamonkey "manually" vs via Synaptic / Apt (Ubuntu / Mint)

2010-05-24 Thread NoOp
On 05/24/2010 12:38 PM, Jens Hatlak wrote: > NoOp wrote: >> On 05/23/2010 09:25 PM, Philip Chee wrote: >>> On Sun, 23 May 2010 15:54:26 -0700, NoOp wrote: Can you please advise which extensions required root access? Note: not a confrontational question, just curious as this is the first I

Re: Installing Seamonkey "manually" vs via Synaptic / Apt (Ubuntu / Mint)

2010-05-24 Thread Jens Hatlak
Stanimir Stamenkov wrote: Mon, 24 May 2010 21:38:51 +0200, /Jens Hatlak/: NoOp wrote: /home//seamonkey119/./seamonkey -no-remote -mail -browser BTW: -no-remote does nothing with SeaMonkey version prior to 2.0. Just remove it. I remember this has come up before

Re: Installing Seamonkey "manually" vs via Synaptic / Apt (Ubuntu / Mint)

2010-05-24 Thread Stanimir Stamenkov
Mon, 24 May 2010 21:38:51 +0200, /Jens Hatlak/: NoOp wrote: /home//seamonkey119/./seamonkey -no-remote -mail -browser BTW: -no-remote does nothing with SeaMonkey version prior to 2.0. Just remove it. I remember this has come up before

Re: Installing Seamonkey "manually" vs via Synaptic / Apt (Ubuntu / Mint)

2010-05-24 Thread Jens Hatlak
NoOp wrote: On 05/23/2010 09:25 PM, Philip Chee wrote: On Sun, 23 May 2010 15:54:26 -0700, NoOp wrote: Can you please advise which extensions required root access? Note: not a confrontational question, just curious as this is the first I've heard of this. Basically all extensions that have de

Re: Installing Seamonkey "manually" vs via Synaptic / Apt (Ubuntu / Mint)

2010-05-24 Thread NoOp
On 05/23/2010 09:25 PM, Philip Chee wrote: > On Sun, 23 May 2010 15:54:26 -0700, NoOp wrote: >> On 05/23/2010 02:23 PM, Jens Hatlak wrote: > >>> With SeaMonkey versions before 2.0 there were extensions that needed to >>> be installed into the application directory so you needed access to that >>

Re: Installing Seamonkey "manually" vs via Synaptic / Apt (Ubuntu / Mint)

2010-05-24 Thread Rob Lindauer
Philip Chee wrote: On Sun, 23 May 2010 15:54:26 -0700, NoOp wrote: On 05/23/2010 02:23 PM, Jens Hatlak wrote: Basically all extensions that have default preferences and/or components. All these had to be installed somewhere under the SeaMonkey application directory. You might have chmod'e

Re: Installing Seamonkey "manually" vs via Synaptic / Apt (Ubuntu / Mint)

2010-05-23 Thread Philip Chee
On Sun, 23 May 2010 15:54:26 -0700, NoOp wrote: > On 05/23/2010 02:23 PM, Jens Hatlak wrote: >> With SeaMonkey versions before 2.0 there were extensions that needed to >> be installed into the application directory so you needed access to that >> directory, which usually meant you needed to be r

Re: Installing Seamonkey "manually" vs via Synaptic / Apt (Ubuntu / Mint)

2010-05-23 Thread Phillip Jones
NoOp wrote: On 05/23/2010 06:31 PM, Phillip Jones wrote: NoOp wrote: ... Or, if you want an 'unofficial' Ubuntu system install that works (32bit & 63bit): 63 bit? Yeah... I was watching the Sharks get wooped by the Blackhawks at the time& dropped a bit in the process :-) Thought maybe

Re: Installing Seamonkey "manually" vs via Synaptic / Apt (Ubuntu / Mint)

2010-05-23 Thread NoOp
On 05/23/2010 06:31 PM, Phillip Jones wrote: > NoOp wrote: ... >> Or, if you want an 'unofficial' Ubuntu system install that works (32bit >> & 63bit): > > 63 bit? Yeah... I was watching the Sharks get wooped by the Blackhawks at the time & dropped a bit in the process :-) __

Re: Installing Seamonkey "manually" vs via Synaptic / Apt (Ubuntu / Mint)

2010-05-23 Thread Phillip Jones
NoOp wrote: On 05/23/2010 12:27 PM, Rob Lindauer wrote: The Seamonkey install instructions I've been using (successfully) for a year or two have me expand the Seamonkey tar/bz2 file into a subdirectory under home, and manually add an entry in my Gnome/Kde menu, as opposed to installing via Synap

Re: Installing Seamonkey "manually" vs via Synaptic / Apt (Ubuntu / Mint)

2010-05-23 Thread NoOp
On 05/23/2010 02:23 PM, Jens Hatlak wrote: > Rob Lindauer wrote: >> The Seamonkey install instructions I've been using (successfully) for a >> year or two have me expand the Seamonkey tar/bz2 file into a >> subdirectory under home, and manually add an entry in my Gnome/Kde menu, >> as opposed to in

Re: Installing Seamonkey "manually" vs via Synaptic / Apt (Ubuntu / Mint)

2010-05-23 Thread Jens Hatlak
Rob Lindauer wrote: The Seamonkey install instructions I've been using (successfully) for a year or two have me expand the Seamonkey tar/bz2 file into a subdirectory under home, and manually add an entry in my Gnome/Kde menu, as opposed to installing via Synaptic/Apt. The rationale as I recall is

Re: Installing Seamonkey "manually" vs via Synaptic / Apt (Ubuntu / Mint)

2010-05-23 Thread NoOp
On 05/23/2010 12:27 PM, Rob Lindauer wrote: > The Seamonkey install instructions I've been using (successfully) for a > year or two have me expand the Seamonkey tar/bz2 file into a > subdirectory under home, and manually add an entry in my Gnome/Kde menu, > as opposed to installing via Synaptic/

Installing Seamonkey "manually" vs via Synaptic / Apt (Ubuntu / Mint)

2010-05-23 Thread Rob Lindauer
The Seamonkey install instructions I've been using (successfully) for a year or two have me expand the Seamonkey tar/bz2 file into a subdirectory under home, and manually add an entry in my Gnome/Kde menu, as opposed to installing via Synaptic/Apt. The rationale as I recall is that I as nonpri