Seamonkey Addons

[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- On Fri, 10/9/09, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> From: NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net>
> Subject: Re: Seamonkey Addons
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Date: Friday, October 9, 2009, 9:57 AM
> On 10/08/2009 08:16 PM, Leonard
> Chatagnier wrote:
> > Having trouble installing some addon for
> Seamonkey-1.1.7 on the new 
> > Karmic Beta.  Message is install script not
> found. there was a
> > comments listed that showed a workaround that is way
> more complicated
> > than what I'm willing to do.  What is this
> install script thing and
> > how do I work around it? 
> > 
> 
> Perhaps you mean SeaMonkey 1.1.17? You'll get the message
> if the add-on
> is not compatible with your version or program. For
> instance if you try
> to add an add-on for 1.1.18 (that is the latest SeaMonkey
> release) to SM
> 2.0 (that is the latest pre-release) you'd get that install
> script it
> the add-on isn't coded for 2.0x[1]. Or if you're trying to
> install a
> Firefox only add-on to SeaMonkey or Thunderbird, etc.
>   Think of it as the .deb installer that checks to see
> if the
> application meets all dependencies, and then stops the
> install if it
> does not.
> 
It was the .17 version and now have installed 2.2b1. I discovered most of what you said above after googling.  Sorry for that; it was a moment of frustration with Karmic trying to set up everything as it was in Jaunty.  As the bug comments said, you
should be able to use the adons for the browser you accessed it from.
> What is the add-on you are having issues with?
> 
Adblock Plus was the main one.  The rest were what just struck my fancy while going through the list. I'll stay with the 2.0b1 as used on Jaunty, but haven't had time to install adons at this point.  Just finished installing the 2.0b1 tar.bz2 and had a little issue(what's new) with it not installing in the default /usr/loca/seamonkey but that no biggy, I'll use it installed in /$HOME/Desktop, and it is running now and typing my response from it.  Sorry to be such a bother and not google first which I try to do most of the time._:o)
> [1] A good example is the lightning calendar nightly and
> the seamonkey
> 2.0rc1 code. Both applications work together (with some
> bugs of course),
> but the lightning.xpi has code in it that checks for
> certain versions.
> In order to actually get it to install into SeaMonkey
> 2.0rc1 you need to
> add a new setting in about:config
> 
>    
> extensions.checkCompatibility    false
> 
> and then it will install.
> 
Thanks for the tip.  I'll add it before adding some addons to my 2.0b1 install to see if it helps.
> 
Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net