Mozilla Suite & Seamonkey

[Leonard Chatagnier]

> On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 05:29:21 -0700 (PDT)
> Leonard Chatagnier <lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> > > Hey RebelLion,
> > Thanks for the reply. I may try to compile it but
> need
> > <snip>
> 
>   You don't need to uninstall anything to try out
> seamonkey. Just
> download the .tar.gz. Then sudo mv seamonkey hit tab
> to autocomplete
> to /usr/local/
> cd to /usr/local/
> ls sea* to make sure it is there and you are in the
> right place.
> sudo tar zvxf seamonk here hit the tab key it will
> autocomplete and it
> will untar into its own directory. You can then call
> it from there or
> add an icon to your desktop or taskbar or where ever
> you want. Or you
> can put a symlink in say /usr/bin/ to it.
> To do this cd /usr/bin/ then sudo ln -s
> /usr/local/seamonkey/seamonkey
> 
Wow, thanks a bunch for the detail. It will make
adding Seamonkey a breaze as I haven't installed this
way much. Really appreciate this detail.

>   Re the mplayer  I don't have it, but do you have
> the mozilla-plugins
> installed and are they in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
> directory ?
> 

Err?. Yes, I have mplayerplug-in-3.31 cvs compiled and
installed. This contains the mplayer plugins which are
copied into the /usr/lib/mozilla(and firefox)/plugins
dir. I don't have mozilla-mplayer as it conflicts with
mplayerplugin which both contain the plugins.
Mozilla-mplayer was purged before installing
mplayerplug-ins. Hope that answers your question as
I'm a little confused on your exact meaning.
I'm laboring under the impression that I should
uninstall the mplayerplug-in-3.31 before I reinstall
mozilla-mplayer from Dapper or any other
package(Seamonkey) that contains the mplayerplug-ins
as they would conflict. I haven't looked at Seamonkey
tar.gz yet and assume that it would contain the
mplayerplug-ins to allow the mozilla browser to play
embedds. If Seamonkey doesn't contain the
mplayerplug-ins then I would just keep
mplayerplug-in-3.31 installed as its just about the
latest version available.
Aptitude search shows:
lchata at ubuntu:~$ aptitude search mozilla-plugin
p   j2re1.4-mozilla-plugin               - Java plugin
for mozilla/firefox
p   mozilla-plugin-pcmanx                - pcmanx
plugin for Mozilla based browser
p   mozilla-plugin-vlc 
I may need the vlc but not the others. I have sun java
installed. That should cover your question, if not,
will be glad to provide more info.
Well maybe one more thing, found a broken symlink for
mplayerplug-in-gmp.xpt in  ~/.mozilla/plugins and
fixed
it, rebooted and mozilla browser still just plays the
adds but no selected videos. But I did get a potential
problem fixed thanks to your question.


Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net