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you should extract the source and compile it yourself. It might be easier to search for this software at SlackBuilds.org for a ready build script that will do this for you:
Actually, this file most likely is not a package, but contains the source code of the SW you want to install. I would suggest extracting it on a directory (ie /usr/src) and then read the README or INSTALL file usually contained in the pack.
I think I tried this and it did not work --> slackpkg install seamonkey.tar.bz2
So I did this (specified current directory) --> slackpkg install ./seamonkey-2.32.tar.bz2
5 minutes of garbage on screen
then please wait for a minute
then 5 minutes of stuff about grep like:
grep: Unmatched [ or [^
grep: Invalid range end
grep: Unmatched [ or [^
grep: Unmatched [ or [^
grep: Unmatched [ or [^
grep: Invalid range end
grep: Unmatched [ or [^
grep: Unmatched [ or [^
grep: Unmatched [ or [^
grep: Unmatched
then 5 minutes of rotating the characters - / | \
so that it looked like a spinning bar.
then 2 minutes of more grep stuff.
then the rotating bar again for minutes
then more alternating grep stuff and rotating bar forever
I finally did a control-C to get aborted the rotating bar
after about 20 minutes.
To my surprise it got installed, and seems to work.
I did the full install, and had seamonkey but it was an older
version, but I wanted an update, because they said there was
some security issues with what I had.
Thanks all for the help. I guess the problem is fixed, maybe?
Probably seamonkey was already installed, as Richard Cranium said: it's part of Slackware. That's why you can run it.
You won't find it in slackbuilds.org that ships only packaging material for software not already included in Slackware.
The slackpkg install command is only for Slackware package, and seamonkey.tar.bz2 is not a Slackware package but a source tarball as koloh said, hence the errors.
I downloaded some source files in xxxxx.tar.bz2 format.
How would I install a package that is in that format
on slackware?
As previously mentioned it is better to use the Sea Monkey that ships with Slackware. However, if you must have the latest package you could try to use gnashley's utility called src2pkg. His utility takes source files and creates a Slackware package that you can install using the installpkg command. That may work for you.
Well I guess it is not really fixed. I am using it right now,
but I have to run it as root.
It will not run as a simple user, it gives the following errors when
running it as an ordinary user:
bash-4.2$ seamonkey
1422627568044 addons.manager WARN Application shipped blocklist has an unexpected namespace (http://www.mozilla.org/newlayout/xml/parsererror.xml)
GLib-GIO-Message: Using the 'memory' GSettings backend. Your settings will not be saved or shared with other applications.
Segmentation fault
bash-4.2$
And download: seamonkey-2.32-i486-1.txz or seamonkey-2.32-x86_64-1.txz then install it with pkgtool. Sure you could run into an issue where a library needs upgraded or something before the current version will work (haven't seen that yet), but in all these years I have never had an issue getting upgraded versions of software for Slackware right out of current. Quick, simple and flawless. Works for me!
Last edited by Fred-1.2.13; 01-30-2015 at 11:17 AM.
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