%general-entities; ]> seamonkey Seamonkey is a browser suite, a descendant of Netscape. It includes the browser, composer, mail and news clients, and an IRC client. It is the community-driven follow-on to the Mozilla Application Suite, created after Mozilla decided to focus on separate applications for browsing and e-mail. Those applications are and . &lfs121_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; Additional Downloads Recommended patch (required for building with system ICU-75 or newer): The tarball seamonkey-&seamonkey-version;.source.tar.xz will untar to seamonkey-&seamonkey-version; directory. Seamonkey Dependencies Required , , , , , , and Recommended , , , (with clang), , , , 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 They might be tested to work, but they can be out of date or contain security holes. Optional , , , , , , Hunspell, Gconf, and Watchman 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 # 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 # Uncomment these lines if you have installed optional dependencies: #ac_add_options --enable-system-hunspell #ac_add_options --enable-startup-notification # Uncomment the following option if you have not installed PulseAudio #ac_add_options --disable-pulseaudio # and uncomment this if you installed alsa-lib instead of PulseAudio #ac_add_options --enable-alsa # Comment out the following option if you have gconf installed ac_add_options --disable-gconf # Comment out following options if you have not installed # recommended dependencies: ac_add_options --with-system-icu ac_add_options --with-system-libevent ac_add_options --with-system-nspr ac_add_options --with-system-nss ac_add_options --with-system-webp # Disabling debug symbols makes the build much smaller and a little # faster. Comment this if you need to run a debugger. ac_add_options --disable-debug-symbols # The elf-hack is reported to cause failed installs (after successful builds) # on some machines. It is supposed to improve startup time and it shrinks # libxul.so by a few MB. With recent Binutils releases the linker already # supports a much safer and generic way for this. ac_add_options --disable-elf-hack ac_add_options --enable-linker=bfd export LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -Wl,-z,pack-relative-relocs" # Seamonkey has some additional features that are not turned on by default, # such as an IRC client, calendar, and DOM Inspector. The DOM Inspector # aids with designing web pages. Comment these options if you do not # desire these features. ac_add_options --enable-calendar ac_add_options --enable-dominspector ac_add_options --enable-irc # The BLFS editors recommend not changing anything below this line: ac_add_options --prefix=/usr ac_add_options --enable-application=comm/suite ac_add_options --disable-crashreporter ac_add_options --disable-updater ac_add_options --disable-tests # The SIMD code relies on the unmaintained packed_simd crate which # fails to build with Rustc >= 1.78.0. We may re-enable it once # Mozilla port the code to use std::simd and std::simd is stabilized. ac_add_options --disable-rust-simd ac_add_options --enable-strip ac_add_options --enable-install-strip # You cannot distribute the binary if you do this. ac_add_options --enable-official-branding # The option to use system cairo was removed in 2.53.9. ac_add_options --enable-system-ffi ac_add_options --enable-system-pixman ac_add_options --with-system-bz2 ac_add_options --with-system-jpeg ac_add_options --with-system-png ac_add_options --with-system-zlib export CC=clang CXX=clang++ EOF First, if you are building with system ICU, adapt the line break mapping for ICU-74 or later, and apply a patch to build this package with the C++17 standard because the headers of ICU-75 or later require some C++17 features: (for i in {43..47}; do sed '/ZWJ/s/$/,CLASS_CHARACTER/' -i intl/lwbrk/LineBreaker.cpp || exit $? done) && patch -Np1 -i ../seamonkey-&seamonkey-version;-cxx17-1.patch Next, fix a problem with the bundled 'distro' python module: sed -e '1012 s/stderr=devnull/stderr=subprocess.DEVNULL/' \ -e '1013 s/OSError/(OSError, subprocess.CalledProcessError)/' \ -i third_party/python/distro/distro.py Compile Seamonkey by running the following commands: export PATH_PY311=/opt/python3.11/bin:$PATH && PATH=$PATH_PY311 AUTOCONF=true ./mach build This package does not come with a test suite. Install Seamonkey by issuing the following commands as the root user: If sudo or su is invoked for opening a shell running as the &root; user, ensure PATH_PY311 is correctly passed or the following command will fail. For sudo, use the --preserve-env=PATH_PY311 option. For su, do not use the - or --login options. PATH=$PATH_PY311 ./mach install && chown -R 0:0 /usr/lib/seamonkey && cp -v $(find -name seamonkey.1 | head -n1) /usr/share/man/man1 Finally, unset the PATH_PY311 variable: unset $PATH_PY311 export CC=clang CXX=clang++: With the introduction of gcc-12, many more warnings are generated when compiling mozilla applications and that results in a much slower, and larger, build. Furthermore, building with GCC on i?86 is currently broken. Although upstream mozilla code defaults to using llvm unless overridden, the older configure code in Seamonkey defaults to gcc. ./mach build --verbose: Use this alternative if you need details of which files are being compiled, together with any C or C++ flags being used. But do not add '--verbose' to the install command, it is not accepted there. ./mach build -jN: The build should, by default, use all the online CPU cores. If using all the cores causes the build to swap because you have insufficient memory, using fewer cores can be faster. For installing various Seamonkey add-ons, refer to Add-ons for Seamonkey. 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 Search: 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. 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/chrome/icons/default/default128.png \ /usr/share/pixmaps/seamonkey.png Installed Programs Installed Libraries Installed Directory seamonkey Numerous libraries, browser, and email/newsgroup components, plugins, extensions, and helper modules installed in /usr/lib/seamonkey /usr/lib/seamonkey Short Descriptions seamonkey is the Mozilla browser/email/newsgroup/chat client suite seamonkey