How to have programs located in /home into the launcher

Asked by Augustine Souza

I've just moved up to 12.04 from 11.10. Unfortunately, there's an old version of the Seamonkey browser in USC and I want the latest. So I got it here: h t t p : / / download.mozilla.org / ? product = seamonkey-2.8 &os=linux&lang=en-US.

It was a tar archive which I extracted to a folder in my home directory. When I double-click on a script called "seamonkey" in the Seamonkey folder, I'm asked if I want to display or run the script. If I choose "run", the Seamonkey browser is launched and its icon is visible in the launcher.

The problem is this: I can lock the icon to the launcher but if I quit Seamonkey, the icon remains in the launcher but doesn't function at all.

Am I having this problem because Ubuntu expects to have programs installed in /usr/sbin or wherever? I would prefer to have Seamonkey totally installed and running from within my home folder. I'm the sole user of my computer (but not an expert user of Linux).

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Jeet (gour-jitendrasingh) said :
#1

you can reinstall it ..!!

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Augustine Souza (aesouza2008) said :
#2

How will re-installing help?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
#3

Tried the mozilla PPAs?

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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
#4

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:joe-nationnet/seamonkey-dev
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install seamonkey

HTH

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Augustine Souza (aesouza2008) said :
#5

@andrew, thanks for the hint. This seems promising: http://www.ubuntuupdates.org/packages/show/207296. I'm marking this as "Problem Solved" but I may be back!

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Augustine Souza (aesouza2008) said :
#6

Now I'm confused. I know (or think) that USC can handle debs and once something is installed via the USC, there shouldn't be any problems with the launcher. Do you have an opinion on the link I provided?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
#7

The PPA will make it easier, plus when the PPA gets updated you wil download the new version.

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Augustine Souza (aesouza2008) said :
#8

Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.