Matthias Mueller wrote:
i am relatively new to linux and trying to get Seamonkey to work. There is
no package in the Debian Repositories.
I have tried to unpack and start Seamonkey this way: "
http://www.seamonkey-project.org/doc/install-and-uninstall";.
Unpacked inside my homefolder "~/seamonkey".
I don't have experience with a source install, so I won't try to address
those specifics.
For Debian, if you want SeaMonkey, the easier route to go may be to
install IceApe, the Debian fork of SeaMonkey. Debian's forks of Mozilla
stuff (IceWeasel, IceDove and IceApe) aren't official Mozilla products,
and as such, they don't get all the QA testing, and stuff that happens
with the Nightly branch. However, by going with the Debian forks, all
the issues relating to compiling and package dependencies are pretty
much avoided.
I just did an install of jesse in a virtual machine a few days ago -- I
was working on other stuff, but I found that IceApe was included, when I
included xfce, Cinnamon and Mate as desktop options. I don't know if
inclusion of IceApe is specific to one of those desktops (and whether
it's included, if you opt exclusively for Gnome or KDE), or if you have
grab it through APT processes.
Beyond that, I believe that I've seen in news fairly recently that
Debian and Mozilla are in the process of settling their differences
(Mozilla logos, and Debian adjustments to Mozilla code), and that before
long, we may see Firefox (by name) in Debian repositories. If that's
true, I think it likely that further into the future, we may see the
same with Thunderbird and Seamonkey.
Smith
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