Install from Tar file
I hope it is not off limits. I love using Trisquel 8.0. I can't abandon my Seamonkey.
I have seamonkey running on this installation of Trisquel 8.0. I can't seem to get it running on a brand new installation on another machine.
I installed Trisquel 8.0 on a ibm t41 by removing the hard drive, putting it in an enclosure/to usb, and installing from another machine. The t41 would not accept the "forcepae" command, but the Trisquel 8.0 runs dual booted once the hard drive is back in the machine. Trisquel 8.0 also runs on that machine via harddrive usb and Trisquel mini runs by dvd or usb flash drive. I didn't have a large enough flash drive to try Trisquel 8.0 full version, but by dvd "forcepae" would not work.
When I try to tar jxvf Seamonkey-*.*.*, both with or without root privelege in a created file in 'home/user's' directory, root claims priveleges which I can not give up. The profile directory gets put into root's /.mozilla directory, which I don't think should exist. I can only launch with superuser(root) pivilege. I'm stuck.
I know it is not free software, so I'll understand.
Thanks.
As far as I know, SeaMonkey is free software. I downloaded the tar.bz2 from https://www.seamonkey-project.org/releases/ and extracted it using the contextual menu (that you can get right-clicking on the tar.bz2 file). Double-clicking on the seamonkey/seamonkey file launched SeaMonkey, as expected.
> As far as I know, SeaMonkey is free software.
It is on Trisquel's purge list.[1] I'm not sure of the reason. Perhaps
it has similar restrictions to other Mozilla software (Firefox,
Thunderbird)?
[1]
https://devel.trisquel.info/trisquel/ubuntu-purge/blob/master/purge-bionic#L113
Thank you Magic Banana. Last night I tried again and succeeded. I was copying the tar.bz2 from another computer in Trisquel. This time I chown every step of the move from hdd to flash to hdd. This time I extracted in /usr/lib/... Previously, I had been successful on other systems extracting in //.mozilla/... I did not figure out why that was not working. It is working fine now. One related/off topic is that the button bar in the permissions menu page (the change all permissions in contained folders button) does not seem to change the permissions in the contained folders. Thanks again.