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Can't install downloaded programs in ubunto7.04

Asked by hubert

I have not been successful in downloading any programs form websites for ubunto 7.04.
My question is how can I get Sea Monkey installed.

I had been using Mozilla Composer WYSIWYG HTML editor, that was in ubunto 6.10 Add/Remove programs list, but it was automatically removed when I upgraded to 7.04. Composer development was terminated, and Sea Monkey is supposed to be a replacement. A WYSIWYG HTML editor is an important program.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_WYSIWYG_HTML_editors

I was very happy with Mozilla Composer on my ubunto 6.10 They should not have removed it! Why didn't ubunto add seamonkey to the Add/Remove Programs list?

I downloaded two different seamonkey files: Linux x86 version of Sea Monkey from Mozilla.org, both the Full Install, and tar.gz These are installers. Both failed to install. The file system seems to be locked, because the folder /usr/local/seamonkey can not be created. (In Nautilus there is no local folder in /usr/ )

Several different user choices must be made as these install files are downloaded. In one choice the archive manager opens and extract is the only option that is reasonable.

Clicking on the binary executable file in the unzipped folder on the desktop also fails when trying to create the required directory.

I also have a Windows XP PC, so I downloaded the Win32 version of Sea Monkey, which installed easily. On the Win XP machine. I see that seamonkey does indeed have a Composer html editor! Is seamonkey in Universe?

For Linux to be used by large numbers of people, we must do something to make Linux program installs from websites easier to do. Mozilla.org did provide Linux versions, we need to show them how to make their installs compatible with ubunto, or we must change ubunto to be able to integrate these downloads into the Synaptic Package Manager system.

Thanks for any help.

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Joshua Henderson (joshuahenderson) said : 		#1

When you downloaded the .tar.gz installer, I assume you extracted it, but what did you do once what was extracted?

To install it from the .tar.gz, my guess would be to compile it. Once it is extracted (in this example, I will assume it was extracted to ~/Desktop/seamonkey), get into the terminal and type:

$ cd ~/Desktop/seamonkey
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install

To be able to copy the files to /usr/local/seamonkey, you will need to install it as super user.

This may not be the way that it is installed, if not, and you know how, type sudo in front of everything that you type when installing it.

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Sam Cater (wraund-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#2

Joshua:

he may not be using source, it may be a .deb .run or anything else
:P

maybe he is having permission troubles, with installing and so on

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OberonKing (oberonking) said : 		#3

Joshua:
If the programs that you trying to compile/install are tar.gz or something like that.
- make sure that you have all the -dev packages, that's in the README included in the tar.gz some times
- You can try with sudo apt-get build-dep "program name", that download all the dependencies to compile that
- Or, in the page of the program itself maybe says the packages to compile

Hope you understand me, my english is horrible, and hope that you can have a goal with this

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