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 Firefox-78.8.0 and Thunderbird-78.8.0. Both are based on the Mozilla source code.
This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-10.1 platform.
Download (HTTP): https://archive.mozilla.org/pub/seamonkey/releases/2.53.6/source/seamonkey-2.53.6.source.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 045ca741d5fac8aa87b4be617969ff9a
Download size: 271 MB
Estimated disk space required: 6.8 GB (149 MB installed)
Estimated build time: 20 SBU (on a 4-core machine)
![[Note]](../images/note.png)
The tarball seamonkey-2.53.6.source.tar.xz will untar to seamonkey-2.53.6 directory.
Autoconf-2.13, both GTK+-2.24.33 and GTK+-3.24.25, Python-2.7.18, rustc-1.47.0, UnZip-6.0, yasm-1.3.0, and Zip-3.0
ICU-68.2, libevent-2.1.12, libwebp-1.2.0 NASM-2.15.05, NSPR-4.29, NSS-3.61, and PulseAudio-14.2
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 They might be tested to work, but they can be out of date or contain security holes.
alsa-lib-1.2.4, cURL-7.75.0, dbus-glib-0.110, Doxygen-1.9.1, GConf-3.2.6, gst-plugins-base-1.18.3 (and other plugins, only for tests), OpenJDK-15.0.2, startup-notification-0.12, Valgrind-3.16.1, Wget-1.21.1, Wireless Tools-29, Hunspell, and Watchman
User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/seamonkey
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
# 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 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
# 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 - comment this if you know your machine is not affected.
ac_add_options --disable-elf-hack
# 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
ac_add_options --enable-optimize="-O2"
ac_add_options --enable-strip
ac_add_options --enable-install-strip
# not recognized since 2.53.1 - ac_add_options --enable-gio
ac_add_options --enable-official-branding
# not recognized since 2.53.1 - ac_add_options --enable-safe-browsing
# not recognized since 2.53.1 - ac_add_options --enable-url-classifier
# From firefox-40 (and the corresponding version of seamonkey),
# using system cairo caused seamonkey to crash
# frequently when it was doing background rendering in a tab.
# This appears to again work in seamonkey-2.49.2
ac_add_options --enable-system-cairo
ac_add_options --enable-system-ffi
ac_add_options --enable-system-pixman
# not recognized since 2.53.6 - 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
EOF
If you are compiling this package in chroot you must do two
things. First, as the root user,
ensure that /dev/shm is mounted. If
you do not do this, the Python
configury will fail with a traceback report referencing
/usr/lib/pythonN.N/multiprocessing/synchronize.py.
Run:
mountpoint -q /dev/shm || mount -t tmpfs devshm /dev/shm
Second, either as the root user
export the $SHELL environment variable
using export
SHELL=/bin/sh or else prepend SHELL=/bin/sh when running the first make command.
Compile SeaMonkey by running the following commands:
CC=gcc CXX=g++ make -f client.mk
The CC and CXX variables above are only needed if LLVM-11.1.0 is installed and you do not want to use clang.
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 && cp -v $(find -name seamonkey.1 | head -n1) /usr/share/man/man1
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.
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
/usr/lib/seamonkey-2.53.6
Last updated on 2021-02-25 12:13:27 -0800