SeaMonkey is a browser suite, a descendant of Netscape. It includes the browser, composer, mail and news clients, and an IRC client.
It is the community-driven follow-on to the Mozilla Application Suite, created after Mozilla decided to focus on separate applications for browsing and e-mail. Those applications are Firefox-102.2.0 and Thunderbird-102.2.0.
This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-11.2 platform.
Download (HTTP): https://archive.mozilla.org/pub/seamonkey/releases/2.53.13/source/seamonkey-2.53.13.source.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 0af118bbe81f76433609ff0d57ce01be
Download size: 242 MB
Estimated disk space required: 3.0 GB (156 MB installed)
Estimated build time: 11 SBU (with parallelism=4)
![[Note]](../images/note.png)
The tarball seamonkey-2.53.13.source.tar.xz will untar to seamonkey-2.53.13 directory.
Autoconf-2.13, both GTK+-2.24.33 and GTK+-3.24.34, Python-2.7.18, rustc-1.60.0, UnZip-6.0, yasm-1.3.0, and Zip-3.0
ICU-71.1, libevent-2.1.12, libwebp-1.2.4, LLVM-14.0.6 (with clang), NASM-2.15.05, NSPR-4.34.1, nss-3.82, and PulseAudio-16.1
If you don't install recommended dependencies, then internal copies of those packages will be used. They might be tested to work, but they can be out of date or contain security holes.
alsa-lib-1.2.7.2, cURL-7.84.0, dbus-glib-0.112, Doxygen-1.9.4, GConf-3.2.6, gst-plugins-base-1.20.3 (and other plugins, only for tests), startup-notification-0.12, Valgrind-3.19.0, Wget-1.21.3, Wireless Tools-29, Hunspell, and Watchman
User Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/seamonkey
The configuration of SeaMonkey is
accomplished by creating a mozconfig
file containing the desired configuration options. A default
mozconfig file is created below. To
see the entire list of available configuration options (and an
abbreviated description of each one), issue ./configure --help. You may also
wish to review the entire file and uncomment any other desired
options. Create the file by issuing the following command:
cat > mozconfig << "EOF"
# If you have a multicore machine, all cores will be used
# If you have installed DBus-Glib comment out this line:
ac_add_options --disable-dbus
# If you have installed dbus-glib, and you have installed (or will install)
# wireless-tools, and you wish to use geolocation web services, comment out
# this line
ac_add_options --disable-necko-wifi
# Uncomment these lines if you have installed optional dependencies:
#ac_add_options --enable-system-hunspell
#ac_add_options --enable-startup-notification
# Uncomment the following option if you have not installed PulseAudio
#ac_add_options --disable-pulseaudio
# and uncomment this if you installed alsa-lib instead of PulseAudio
#ac_add_options --enable-alsa
# Comment out following option if you have gconf installed
ac_add_options --disable-gconf
# Comment out following options if you have not installed
# recommended dependencies:
ac_add_options --with-system-icu
ac_add_options --with-system-libevent
ac_add_options --with-system-nspr
ac_add_options --with-system-nss
ac_add_options --with-system-webp
# Disabling debug symbols makes the build much smaller and a little
# faster. Comment this if you need to run a debugger. Note: This is
# required for compilation on i686.
ac_add_options --disable-debug-symbols
# The elf-hack is reported to cause failed installs (after successful builds)
# on some machines. It is supposed to improve startup time and it shrinks
# libxul.so by a few MB - comment this if you know your machine is not affected.
ac_add_options --disable-elf-hack
# Seamonkey has some additional features that are not turned on by default,
# such as an IRC client, calendar, and DOM Inspector. The DOM Inspector
# aids with designing web pages. Comment these options if you do not
# desire these features.
ac_add_options --enable-calendar
ac_add_options --enable-dominspector
ac_add_options --enable-irc
# The BLFS editors recommend not changing anything below this line:
ac_add_options --prefix=/usr
ac_add_options --enable-application=comm/suite
ac_add_options --disable-crashreporter
ac_add_options --disable-updater
ac_add_options --disable-tests
# rust-simd does not compile with recent versions of rust.
# It is disabled in recent versions of firefox
ac_add_options --disable-rust-simd
ac_add_options --enable-optimize="-O2"
ac_add_options --enable-strip
ac_add_options --enable-install-strip
ac_add_options --enable-official-branding
# The option to use system cairo was removed in 2.53.9.
ac_add_options --enable-system-ffi
ac_add_options --enable-system-pixman
ac_add_options --with-system-bz2
ac_add_options --with-system-jpeg
ac_add_options --with-system-png
ac_add_options --with-system-zlib
EOF
If you are compiling this package in chroot you must do two
things. First, as the root user,
ensure that /dev/shm is mounted. If
you do not do this, the Python
configuration will fail with a traceback report referencing
/usr/lib/pythonN.N/multiprocessing/synchronize.py.
Run:
mountpoint -q /dev/shm || mount -t tmpfs devshm /dev/shm
Second, either as the root user
export the $SHELL environment variable
using export
SHELL=/bin/sh or else prepend SHELL=/bin/sh when running the ./mach commands.
Compile SeaMonkey by running the following commands:
export CC=clang CXX=clang++ && ./mach configure && ./mach build
This package does not come with a test suite.
Install SeaMonkey by issuing the
following commands as the root
user:
./mach install && chown -R 0:0 /usr/lib/seamonkey && cp -v $(find -name seamonkey.1 | head -n1) /usr/share/man/man1
export CC=clang CXX=clang++: With the introduction of gcc-12, many more warnings are generated when compiling mozilla applications and that results in a much slower, and larger, build. Furthermore, building with GCC on i?86 is currently broken. Although upstream mozilla code defaults to using llvm unless overridden, the older configure code in SeaMonkey defaults to gcc.
./mach configure:
This validates the supplied dependencies and the mozconfig.
./mach build --verbose: Use this
alternative if you need details of which files are being compiled,
together with any C or C++ flags being used. But do not add
'--verbose' to the install command, it is not accepted there.
./mach build -jN: The build should, by
default, use all the online CPU cores. If using all the cores
causes the build to swap because you have insufficient memory,
using fewer cores can be faster.
For installing various SeaMonkey add-ons, refer to Add-ons for Seamonkey.
Along with using the “Preferences” menu to configure
SeaMonkey's options and
preferences to suit individual tastes, finer grain control of many
options is only available using a tool not available from the
general menu system. To access this tool, you'll need to open a
browser window and enter about:config in the address bar. This will
display a list of the configuration preferences and information
related to each one. You can use the “Search:” bar
to enter search criteria and narrow down the listed items. Changing
a preference can be done using two methods. One, if the preference
has a boolean value (True/False), simply double-click on the
preference to toggle the value and two, for other preferences
simply right-click on the desired line, choose “Modify” from
the menu and change the value. Creating new preference items is
accomplished in the same way, except choose “New” from
the menu and provide the desired data into the fields when
prompted.
If you use a desktop environment like Gnome or KDE
you may wish to create a seamonkey.desktop file so that SeaMonkey appears in the panel's menus. If you
didn't enable Startup-Notification
in your mozconfig change the StartupNotify line to false. As the
root user:
mkdir -pv /usr/share/{applications,pixmaps} &&
cat > /usr/share/applications/seamonkey.desktop << "EOF"
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=Application
Name=SeaMonkey
Comment=The Mozilla Suite
Icon=seamonkey
Exec=seamonkey
Categories=Network;GTK;Application;Email;Browser;WebBrowser;News;
StartupNotify=true
Terminal=false
EOF
ln -sfv /usr/lib/seamonkey/chrome/icons/default/default128.png \
/usr/share/pixmaps/seamonkey.png
/usr/lib/seamonkey