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[martymas]

a friend sent me a link to seamonkey

after reading the notes it says to insatall either the browser

or the sys

any one knows what that means

hitest said to try it one day

but im relunctant to try it unless

i can get more info

does the words sys mean an operating sys

thanks

marty

Edited July 30, 2007 by martymas

[Ham Blowfist]

Perhaps they were referring to installing the different components of SeaMonkey.

In addition to the browser, you can also install the chat client, mail client, etc.

I've used SeaMonkey from the release of Firefox 2 (because I liked FF 1.5 so much better).

But since Firefox 2.0.0.5 came out, it seems much faster and more stable, so I tend to use it

over SeaMonkey now.

Some people have trouble installing SeaMonkey, so I'm going to give a list of commands to follow.

First, if you're distro uses sudo (like Ubuntu) DON'T USE SUDO to do the install.

Extract the SeaMonkey installer with:

tar -xvzf seamonkey-1.1.3.en-US.linux-i686.installer.tar.gz

Then cd into the installer directory.

For the next few commands, you must be root (again, don't execute the installer with sudo)

to become root and stay root in Ubuntu:

sudo su

most others just:

su

(You MUST run SeaMonkey once as root before you can run it as a regular user,

in the code below, as soon as SeaMonkey starts quit it immediately - don't continue to run it as root)

./seamonkey-installer									  
/usr/local/seamonkey/seamonkey
exit

If all went well, you can now run SeaMonkey with:

/usr/local/seamonkey/seamonkey

You'll want to make a shortcut to that command.

The SeaMonkey icon will be at:

/usr/local/seamonkey/chrome/icons/default/seamonkey.png

To uninstall SeaMonkey:

cd /usr/local
rm -dr seamonkey

(For the rm command, you have to be root)

That's about it.

Hope this helps.

Edited July 31, 2007 by Ham Blowfist

[martymas]

thanks

i havent had firefox for some years now

as once it used to interfere with my cookies

which i like to control myself

how ever that is some time ago now

in later years ive used slimbrowser

for about the last 2-3 years

because it was much fatser than the others

and smaller when my sys was smaller

but now i have i little bigger sys

so i feel like experimenting

ive just insatlled an 80gig hdd

so i have much more room

ile have a look at your info

thanks

marty