On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Kelly Clowers wrote:
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:42:33 -0800
From: Kelly Clowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: debian-user <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: Iceape
Resent-Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 18:42:56 +0000 (UTC)
Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 1:13 AM, mess-mate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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Are you sure ?
The latest (etch) is version 1.5.0.14pre (20080208)
So is mine (etch)
You must be looking at the wrong package. The latest stable
Iceape/SeaMonkey is 1.1.x. The development version is
2.0a1pre (2.0 pre-alpha) - there is no 1.5 version at all.
Bret, there is way to get older versions, unfortunately, I can't
remember it right now. I am sure someone else on the list
knows, or you could download and install SeaMonkey from
Mozilla. It isn't a .deb, but it isn't too hard to setup, and you
could move up to 1.1, which is a fair bit better than 1.0
Cheers,
Kelly Clowers
Okay, this is where it gets difficult, as it is not a simple .deb
package installation.
I follow the instructions, as a user and, when I am in the installer,
it comes to the part where it says something like "Install in
/usr/local/seamonkey", and I accept that, then it says
"usrl/local/seamonkey does not exist. Create it?", so I respond "Yes",
and it responds "unable to create directory".
So, I think, "Okay, as a user, I cannot create a directory in there; I
must need to do it as a superuser.".
So I do an "su - root", and repeat the procedure for installation, with
the same download.
Except, when I enter the required command, "./seamonkey-installer", as
at
http://www.seamonkey-project.org/releases/seamonkey1.1.8/installation#linux
, I get
"(seamonkey-installer-bin:17610): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:".
As I have previously said, I am running Debian etch (4.0), which is
later than the required Debian 3.0, so I should not encounter a
compatibility problem.
This is where having software packages, provided as installable packages
via the particular distribution package handler (in this case, having
the software available as a .deb package, like Opera does), makes
installation possible and easy, whereas using the procedure required for
seamonkey, makes it too difficult for people like me, who are not Linux
"guru's ".
--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
..............
"So once you do know what the question actually is,
you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
A Trilogy In Four Parts",
written by Douglas Adams,
published by Pan Books, 1992
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