Building SeaMonkey 2.0
Posted 09-17-2009 at 11:49 PM by wadsworth
Updated 11-08-2009 at 10:31 AM by wadsworth (updated for final release)
Updated 11-08-2009 at 10:31 AM by wadsworth (updated for final release)
Tags seamonkey
Quick howto build SeaMonkey 2.0 on Slackware-64.
All Slackware releases from 12.2 to -current have now been
officially updated to SeaMonkey 2.
There's no more need to compile SeaMonkey in this manner.
"Building SeaMonkey requires at least 2 GB of disk space and 256 MB of available RAM."
The JDK (Java Development Kit) is required.
I had jdk-6u16 installed when building.
Grab the tarball (bzip2,57 MB) from this page:
http://www.seamonkey-project.org/releases/#source
(seamonkey-2.0.source.tar.bz2)
Save in your home directory.
I will manually install to /usr/local,
and leave SeaMonkey 1.1.x in place.
Start SeaMonkey 2 with:
/usr/local/seamonkey/seamonkey
A Flash plugin in ~/.mozilla/plugins/ is autodetected.
If its someplace else, a symlink to libflashplayer.so could be necessary.
Seamonkey 2 puts the user profile in a new location:
~/.mozilla/seamonkey
To completely remove SeaMonkey 2.0:
rm -rf /usr/local/seamonkey/
rm -rf ~/.mozilla/seamonkey/ #deletes all user profiles!
Detailed build documentation:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Build_Documentation
All Slackware releases from 12.2 to -current have now been
officially updated to SeaMonkey 2.
There's no more need to compile SeaMonkey in this manner.
"Building SeaMonkey requires at least 2 GB of disk space and 256 MB of available RAM."
The JDK (Java Development Kit) is required.
I had jdk-6u16 installed when building.
Grab the tarball (bzip2,57 MB) from this page:
http://www.seamonkey-project.org/releases/#source
(seamonkey-2.0.source.tar.bz2)
Save in your home directory.
I will manually install to /usr/local,
and leave SeaMonkey 1.1.x in place.
Code:
mkdir -p /tmp/build-sm/objdir-sm-release cd /tmp/build-sm/ tar -xjf ~/seamonkey-2.0.source.tar.bz2 cd comm-1.9.1/ # Create a basic .mozconfig file cat > .mozconfig << EOF ac_add_options --enable-application=suite mk_add_options MOZ_CO_PROJECT=suite mk_add_options MOZ_OBJDIR=/tmp/build-sm/objdir-sm-release mk_add_options MOZ_MAKE_FLAGS="-j4" ac_add_options --enable-optimize=-Os ac_add_options --disable-debug ac_add_options --disable-tests EOF make -f client.mk cd ../objdir-sm-release/ make package # Save the created tarball. cp mozilla/dist/seamonkey-2.0.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2 /tmp/ # The package is now in /tmp, so delete the (huge) build directory. cd rm -rf /tmp/build-sm/ # You can untar and run from anywhere. # I like to install to /usr/local su - # if upgrading, remove the old SeaMonkey rm -rf /usr/local/seamonkey/ cd /usr/local/ tar -xjf /tmp/seamonkey-2.0.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2 # If you want java, create a symlink. ln -s /usr/lib64/java/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so /usr/local/seamonkey/plugins/ exit
/usr/local/seamonkey/seamonkey
A Flash plugin in ~/.mozilla/plugins/ is autodetected.
If its someplace else, a symlink to libflashplayer.so could be necessary.
Seamonkey 2 puts the user profile in a new location:
~/.mozilla/seamonkey
To completely remove SeaMonkey 2.0:
rm -rf /usr/local/seamonkey/
rm -rf ~/.mozilla/seamonkey/ #deletes all user profiles!
Detailed build documentation:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Build_Documentation
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