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-36.0 and Thunderbird-31.5.0. Both are based on the Mozilla source code.
This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.7 platform.
Download (HTTP): https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/seamonkey/releases/2.32.1/source/seamonkey-2.32.1.source.tar.bz2
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/seamonkey/releases/2.32.1/source/seamonkey-2.32.1.source.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 88a90d29af5f05e12a9c91e4c4d57c6e
Download size: 191 MB
Estimated disk space required: 4.4 GB (78 MB installed)
Estimated build time: 19 SBU (using parallelism=4)
alsa-lib-1.0.28, GTK+-2.24.26, Zip-3.0, UnZip-6.0, and yasm-1.3.0
ICU-54.1, libevent-2.0.22, libvpx-1.3.0, NSPR-4.10.8, NSS-3.17.4, and SQLite-3.8.8.2
![[Note]](../images/note.png)
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 They might be tested to work, but they can be out of date or contain security holes.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/python2.7/lib-dynload/_ssl.so exists.
If it does not, reinstall Python-2.7.9
(after installing OpenSSL-1.0.2. The latest version of
any currently maintained
version of Openssl should be satisfactory if already installed.
cURL-7.40.0, dbus-glib-0.104, Doxygen-1.8.9.1, gst-plugins-base-0.10.36 (with gst-plugins-good-0.10.31 and gst-ffmpeg-0.10.13 at runtime), or gst-plugins-base-1.4.5 (with gst-plugins-good-1.4.5 and gst-libav-1.4.5 at runtime), libnotify-0.7.6, OpenJDK-1.8.0.31, PulseAudio-5.0, startup-notification-0.12, Valgrind-3.10.1, Wget-1.16.1, Wireless Tools-29, and Hunspell
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
# 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
# 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-2.32.1 && cp -v moz-build-dir/dist/man/man1/seamonkey.1 /usr/share/man/man1
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
http://www.youtube.com/html5 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.
![[Tip]](../images/tip.png)
There is a multitude of configuration parameters you can tweak to customize SeaMonkey. A very extensive list of these parameters can be found at http://preferential.mozdev.org/preferences.html.
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-2.32.1/chrome/icons/default/seamonkey.png \
/usr/share/pixmaps
/usr/lib/seamonkey-2.32.1
Last updated on 2015-03-05 09:53:05 -0500