%general-entities; ]> $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ SeaMonkey SeaMonkey is a browser suite, the Open Source sibling of Netscape. It includes the browser, composer, mail and news clients, and an IRC client. It is the follow-on to the Mozilla browser suite. The Mozilla project also hosts two subprojects that aim to satisfy the needs of users who don't need the complete browser suite or prefer to have separate applications for browsing and e-mail. These subprojects are and . Both are based on the Mozilla source code. &lfs77_checked; Package Information Download (HTTP): Download (FTP): Download MD5 sum: &seamonkey-md5sum; Download size: &seamonkey-size; Estimated disk space required: &seamonkey-buildsize; Estimated build time: &seamonkey-time; SeaMonkey Dependencies Required , , , and . Recommended , , , , , and If you don't install recommended dependencies, then internal copies of those packages will be used. They might be tested to work, but they can be out of date or contain security holes. You must have installed Openssl before Python 2 or the build system will quickly fail with output including "ImportError: cannot import name HTTPSHandler". If you are in any doubt about this (e.g. upgrading from an older version of Seamonkey), check if /usr/lib/python&python2-majorver;/lib-dynload/_ssl.so exists. If it does not, reinstall (after installing . The latest version of any currently maintained version of Openssl should be satisfactory if already installed. Optional , , , (with and at runtime), or (with and at runtime), , , , , , , , and Hunspell User Notes: The configuration of SeaMonkey is accomplished by creating a mozconfig file containing the desired configuration options. A default mozconfig file is created below. To see the entire list of available configuration options (and an abbreviated description of each one), issue ./configure --help. You may also wish to review the entire file and uncomment any other desired options. Create the file by issuing the following command: cat > mozconfig << "EOF" # If you have a multicore machine, all cores will be used by default. # If desired, you can reduce the number of cores used, e.g. to 1, by # uncommenting the next line and setting a valid number of CPU cores. #mk_add_options MOZ_MAKE_FLAGS="-j1" # If you have installed DBus-Glib comment out this line: ac_add_options --disable-dbus # If you have installed dbus-glib, and you have installed (or will install) # wireless-tools, and you wish to use geolocation web services, comment out # this line ac_add_options --disable-necko-wifi # If you have installed libnotify comment out this line: ac_add_options --disable-libnotify # GStreamer is necessary for H.264 video playback in HTML5 Video Player; # to be enabled, also remember to set "media.gstreamer.enabled" to "true" # in about:config. If you do *not* have GStreamer 0.x.y, uncomment this line: #ac_add_options --disable-gstreamer # or uncomment this line, if you have GStreamer 1.x.y #ac_add_options --enable-gstreamer=1.0 # Uncomment these lines if you have installed optional dependencies: #ac_add_options --enable-system-hunspell #ac_add_options --enable-startup-notification # Comment out following option if you have PulseAudio installed ac_add_options --disable-pulseaudio # If you have not installed Yasm then uncomment this line: #ac_add_options --disable-webm # Comment out following options if you have not installed # recommended dependencies: ac_add_options --enable-system-sqlite ac_add_options --with-system-libevent ac_add_options --with-system-libvpx ac_add_options --with-system-nspr ac_add_options --with-system-nss ac_add_options --with-system-icu # The BLFS editors recommend not changing anything below this line: ac_add_options --prefix=/usr ac_add_options --enable-application=suite ac_add_options --disable-crashreporter ac_add_options --disable-updater ac_add_options --disable-tests ac_add_options --enable-optimize ac_add_options --enable-strip ac_add_options --enable-install-strip ac_add_options --enable-gio ac_add_options --enable-official-branding ac_add_options --enable-safe-browsing ac_add_options --enable-url-classifier ac_add_options --enable-system-cairo ac_add_options --enable-system-ffi ac_add_options --enable-system-pixman ac_add_options --with-pthreads ac_add_options --with-system-bz2 ac_add_options --with-system-jpeg ac_add_options --with-system-png ac_add_options --with-system-zlib mk_add_options MOZ_OBJDIR=@TOPSRCDIR@/moz-build-dir EOF There is a problem on i686 systems when building SeaMonkey with gcc versions ranging from 4.8 to 4.9.1 and using the switch --enable-optimize. There are two alternatives. The best one is to upgrade gcc to version 4.9.2 or later because it will give better perfomance and smaller binaries. However, if you do not wish to upgrade gcc, reduce the level of optimization with: test $(uname -m) = "i686" && sed -i 's/enable-optimize/&=-O2/' mozconfig || true If you are compiling SeaMonkey in chroot, make sure you have the SHELL environment variable set or prepend SHELL=/bin/sh to the first make command below. The moz-build-dir directory needs to exist and match the value used in mozconfig (above) for the object directory (MOZ_OBJDIR): mkdir -vp mozilla/moz-build-dir Compile SeaMonkey by running the following command: If you did not install Xorg in /usr, be sure to specify the location with: export CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH=$XORG_PREFIX/include export C_INCLUDE_PATH=$XORG_PREFIX/include make -f client.mk This package does not come with a test suite. Install SeaMonkey by issuing the following commands as the root user: make -f client.mk install INSTALL_SDK= && chown -R 0:0 /usr/lib/seamonkey-&seamonkey-version; && cp -v moz-build-dir/dist/man/man1/seamonkey.1 /usr/share/man/man1 All the Development Libraries and Headers If you want to install the full SeaMonkey development environment, as the root user: make -C moz-build-dir install mkdir -vp mozilla/moz-build-dir: fixes a build failure of Makefile at the beginning of the build, where a file cannot be found. make -f client.mk: Mozilla products are packaged to allow the use of a configuration file which can be used to pass the configuration settings to the configure command. make uses the client.mk file to get initial configuration and setup parameters. If you deleted the --disable-webm option from your mozconfig, your SeaMonkey can play most youtube videos without the need for the flash plugin. To enable this, go to and click on 'Join the HTML5 Trial' (needs cookies enabled). For installing various SeaMonkey plugins, refer to Mozdev's PluginDoc Project. Along with using the Preferences menu to configure SeaMonkey's options and preferences to suit individual tastes, finer grain control of many options is only available using a tool not available from the general menu system. To access this tool, you'll need to open a browser window and enter about:config in the address bar. This will display a list of the configuration preferences and information related to each one. You can use the Filter: bar to enter search criteria and narrow down the listed items. Changing a preference can be done using two methods. One, if the preference has a boolean value (True/False), simply double-click on the preference to toggle the value and two, for other preferences simply right-click on the desired line, choose Modify from the menu and change the value. Creating new preference items is accomplished in the same way, except choose New from the menu and provide the desired data into the fields when prompted. There is a multitude of configuration parameters you can tweak to customize SeaMonkey. A very extensive list of these parameters can be found at . If you use a desktop environment like Gnome or KDE you may wish to create a seamonkey.desktop file so that SeaMonkey appears in the panel's menus. If you didn't enable Startup-Notification in your mozconfig change the StartupNotify line to false. As the root user: mkdir -pv /usr/share/{applications,pixmaps} && cat > /usr/share/applications/seamonkey.desktop << "EOF" && [Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Type=Application Name=SeaMonkey Comment=The Mozilla Suite Icon=seamonkey Exec=seamonkey Categories=Network;GTK;Application;Email;Browser;WebBrowser;News; StartupNotify=true Terminal=false EOF ln -sfv /usr/lib/seamonkey-&seamonkey-version;/chrome/icons/default/seamonkey.png \ /usr/share/pixmaps Installed Programs Installed Libraries Installed Directory seamonkey Numerous libraries, browser, and email/newsgroup components, plugins, extensions, and helper modules installed in /usr/lib/seamonkey-&seamonkey-version; /usr/lib/seamonkey-&seamonkey-version;. Short Descriptions seamonkey is the Mozilla browser/email/newsgroup/chat client suite. seamonkey