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# SeaMonkey-2.53.10.2

## Introduction to SeaMonkey

SeaMonkey is a browser suite, the Open Source sibling of Netscape. It includes the browser, composer, mail and news clients, and an IRC client. It is the follow-on to the Mozilla browser suite.

The Mozilla project also hosts two subprojects that aim to satisfy the needs of users who don't need the complete browser suite or prefer to have separate applications for browsing and e-mail. These subprojects are Firefox-91.6.0 and Thunderbird-91.6.1. Both are based on the Mozilla source code.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-11.1 platform.

### Package Information

- Download (HTTP): https://archive.mozilla.org/pub/seamonkey/releases/2.53.10.2/source/seamonkey-2.53.10.2.source.tar.xz

- Download MD5 sum: b598e21300efebbb1e5d1742aa57780a

- Download size: 271 MB

- Estimated disk space required: 6.0 GB (161 MB installed)

- Estimated build time: 19 SBU (with parallelism=4)

### Note

The tarball seamonkey-2.53.10.2.source.tar.xz will untar to seamonkey-2.53.10.2 directory.

### SeaMonkey Dependencies

#### Required

Autoconf-2.13, both GTK+-2.24.33 and GTK+-3.24.31, Python-2.7.18, rustc-1.58.1, UnZip-6.0, yasm-1.3.0, and Zip-3.0

#### Recommended

ICU-70.1, libevent-2.1.12, libwebp-1.2.2 NASM-2.15.05, NSPR-4.33, nss-3.75, and PulseAudio-15.0

### Note

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 They might be tested to work, but they can be out of date or contain security holes.

#### Optional

alsa-lib-1.2.6.1, cURL-7.81.0, dbus-glib-0.112, Doxygen-1.9.3, GConf-3.2.6, gst-plugins-base-1.20.0 (and other plugins, only for tests), startup-notification-0.12, Valgrind-3.18.1, Wget-1.21.2, Wireless Tools-29, Hunspell, and Watchman

User Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/seamonkey

## Installation of 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

    # 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

### Note

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 configury 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 first make command.

Compile SeaMonkey by running the following commands:

    export CC=gcc CXX=g++ &&
    ./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

## Command Explanations

export CC=gcc CXX=g++ ...: Upstream now prefer clang so that they can use one compiler everywhere. On the X86 architectures clang takes a little longer than gcc to compile mozilla applications.

./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.

## Configuring SeaMonkey

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

## Contents

Installed Programs: seamonkey
Installed Libraries: Numerous libraries, browser, and email/newsgroup components, plugins, extensions, and helper modules installed in `/usr/lib/seamonkey-2.53.10.2`
Installed Directory: /usr/lib/seamonkey

### Short Descriptions

seamonkey | is the Mozilla browser/email/newsgroup/chat client suite

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