Install of Seamonkey fails on Ubuntu 15.04

MrUmunhum · 09-19-2015, 07:11 PM

Hi group,

Fresh install on Ubuntu 15.04, attempting to install seamonkey using http://http://www.seamonkey-project....#install_linux. Downloaded tar
file and extracted it. When I try to run seamonkey I get this error:

Code:

 seamonkey; pwd
/src/Seamonkey/seamonkey
seamonkey; ls -lrat seamon*
-rwxrwxr-x 1 wre00 root 123064 Sep  3 21:25 seamonkey-bin
-rwxrwxr-x 1 wre00 root 123056 Sep  3 21:25 seamonkey
seamonkey; file seamonkey*
seamonkey:     ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.18, BuildID[sha1]=e04bbcc4c943c98b1e04e2ef7cbbbeac51000cdf, stripped
seamonkey-bin: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.18, BuildID[sha1]=e04bbcc4c943c98b1e04e2ef7cbbbeac51000cdf, stripped
seamonkey; ./seamonkey
bash: ./seamonkey: Permission denied

Any ideas? It fail with both 32 and 64 bit.

frankbell · 09-19-2015, 10:05 PM

Try just

Code:

$ seamonkey

That just worked for me in a VM of Ubuntu 14.04

MrUmunhum · 09-20-2015, 03:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by frankbell

Try just

Code:

$ seamonkey

That just worked for me in a VM of Ubuntu 14.04

Nope, not found.

rokytnji · 09-20-2015, 05:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MrUmunhum

Nope, not found.

and

Code:

ls

says when you tried what frankbell suggested?

John VV · 09-20-2015, 06:16 PM

you REALLY???????? want to put it here ???????
-- odd location but -- it is YOUR computer
there is normally NO /src folder but ....... ( a /usr/src -- but no /src)

Code:

/src/Seamonkey/seamonkey

the instructions have you put the seamonkey folder in /opt or in /usr/opt

just typing "seamonkey" will do NOTHING if that folder is NOT in the system $PATH and in the library $LD_LIBRARY_PATH

this is why you use ./seamonkey in the folder that has it

did you read ( and understand) the error ?

Code:

bash: ./seamonkey: Permission denied

what is the permissions of the file ?????
is it executable ?
are you a member of the "group"
are you thew "owner"

there is a nice shell script called "run-mozilla.sh "
normally this dose not need to be used

but you might need to make the "seamonkey" binary file executable

to check

Code:

cd /to/the/install/location
ls -l seamonkey

now YOU as a NORMAL user DO NOT !!! have permission to edit or use files in that odd location "/src"

your NORMAL!!!! user dose need to be able to read AND WRITE !!! to this folder
so for the very odd location of /src
you need to do this AS ROOT!!!!!

Code:

su -
cd /src 
chown -R YOUR_USER_NAME:users seamonkey
cd seamonkey
chmod +x seamonkey

replace "YOUR_USER_NAME" with well your normal user name

NOW you will be able to start it from ONLY!!! the terminal
and ONLY after you cd into the seamonkey folder

so open a terminal

Code:

cd /src/seamonkey
./seamonkey

you WILL need to do that EVERY TIME you want to run it from there
unless you edit the system settings and make a launcher

now plugins

this being a very ODD location you will likely need to manually make a "plugins" folder and link all the plugins in the system folder to that NEW one in the new seamonkey folder

Code:

su -
ln -s /usr/lib64/browser-plugins /src/seamonkey/plugins

it might be
/use/lib64/mozilla/plugins or some other name

frankbell · 09-20-2015, 10:09 PM

I realize my previous post was too brief. This is a mea culpa and the rest of the story.

I downloaded the Seamonkey tarball and decompressed it, then cd'ed into the directory created thereby, where ls revealed a file called "seamonkey," among others. I issued the command seamonkey and the browser opened and displayed the default homepage.

Sorry for being almost criminally terse.