[ubuntu-uk] Seamonkey

[Mark Jose]

On Tuesday 26 June 2007 06:18, John Taylor wrote:


>
> john at ubuntu:~$ gksudo ./seamonkey-installer
> X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 169
>   Major opcode:  145
>   Minor opcode:  3
>   Resource id:  0x0
> Failed to open device
>
>
> What more can I tell you?
>
>
> John

Just spotted the reason for your Major opcode error btw - you are running the 
installer as su - you won't need the gksudo bit in front of the installer 
command. If you try again, with just ./seamonkey-installer, it should work. 

OK, I have been nosing around the Seamonkey site. Firstly, I notice that the 
1.1.1 version has been superceded by 1.1.2 which fixes some serious security 
problems, so I think I would grab that from Mozilla rather than attempting to 
install the earlier version. 
The download is at -
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/
The Linux GTK2 version is the one you want.
Running through the install on the mozilla website - 
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/releases/seamonkey1.1.2/installation.html#linux_install_installer

and all went fine here.  

Mark