• Attempting to install SeaMonkey 2.53.21 onMageiaLinux

    From Daniel70@2:250/1 to All on Tuesday, June 17, 2025 13:25:00
    Can anyone in either the SeaMonkey or MageiaLinux groups to which this
    is crossposted offer me any solution to my problem, please??

    Some here might recall I thought my Laptop Computer had died so I have
    been using my Win-11 Desktop computer for a while (five months, maybe).

    Anyway, in fiddling with my Laptop, I think it might just be the Win-7
    (yes, the Laptop is old, circa 2007) that has died (so far), so I
    thought I'd have a go at installing the latest SeaMonkey on the Linux
    portion of it and see if I could get it working even if I had to create
    a new profile for it.

    So I looked up my Brain-File and found this .... _____________________________________________________
    To install SeaMonkey by downloading the tar.bz2 file:

    Create a directory named "seamonkey2" (mkdir seamonkey2) and change
    to that directory (cd seamonkey2).
    Click the Download link in the relevant Linux column for your architecture (x64 for 64-bit or x86 for 32-bit) on the site you're
    downloading SeaMonkey from to download the package (seamonkey-2.53.1.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2 or similar name) file into
    the seamonkey2 directory.
    Decompress the file with the following command:

    tar jxvf seamonkey-2.*.tar.bz2
    This creates a "seamonkey" directory under your seamonkey2 directory.
    Change to the seamonkey directory (cd seamonkey).
    Run SeaMonkey with the following command:

    ./seamonkey
    -----------------------------------------------------------
    (If it really matters, I had downloaded the SeaMonkey file to this
    Win-11 Desktop, copied that file to a USB Drive, transfered that USB
    Drive to the Linux Laptop, copied the SeaMonkey file into the Home/seamonkey25321 folder then .....

    So, in my MageiaLinux Konsole, I did

    [daniel@localhost ~]$ mkdir seamonkey25321
    [daniel@localhost ~]$ cd seamonkey25321
    [daniel@localhost seamonkey25321]$ tar jxvf seamonkey-2.53.21.en-GB.linux=x86.64.tar.bz2
    tar (child): seamonkey-2.53.21.en-GB.linux=x86.64.tar.bz2: Cannot open:
    No such file or directory
    tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
    tar: Child returned status 2
    tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now --------------------------------------------------------

    (Correct, no such file or directory because of the '=' so I had another
    go ....)
    __________________________________________________________
    [daniel@localhost seamonkey25321]$ tar jxvf seamonkey-2.53.21.en-GB.linux-x86.64.tar.bz2
    tar (child): seamonkey-2.53.21.en-GB.linux-x86.64.tar.bz2: Cannot open:
    No such file or directory
    tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
    tar: Child returned status 2
    tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now ----------------------------------------------------

    but that still failed .... all I ended up with in the directory was the tar.bs2 file .....
    _______________________________________
    [daniel@localhost seamonkey25321]$ dir seamonkey-2.53.21.en-GB.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2
    [daniel@localhost seamonkey25321]$ ---------------------------------------------

    Can anyone in either the SeaMonkey or MageiaLinux groups to which this
    is crossposted offer me any possible solution, please??

    Ta.
    --
    Daniel70

    --- MBSE BBS v1.1.1 (Linux-x86_64)
    * Origin: A noiseless patient Spider (2:250/1@fidonet)
  • From Vincent Coen@2:250/1 to Daniel70 on Tuesday, June 17, 2025 23:13:22

    Hello Daniel70!

    17 Jun 25 13:25, Daniel70 wrote to all:

    Drop the 'j' in tar and yes just tried it.




    Can anyone in either the SeaMonkey or MageiaLinux groups to which this
    is crossposted offer me any solution to my problem, please??

    Some here might recall I thought my Laptop Computer had died so I have
    been using my Win-11 Desktop computer for a while (five months,
    maybe).

    Anyway, in fiddling with my Laptop, I think it might just be the Win-7
    (yes, the Laptop is old, circa 2007) that has died (so far), so I
    thought I'd have a go at installing the latest SeaMonkey on the Linux
    portion of it and see if I could get it working even if I had to
    create a new profile for it.

    So I looked up my Brain-File and found this .... _____________________________________________________
    To install SeaMonkey by downloading the tar.bz2 file:

    Create a directory named "seamonkey2" (mkdir seamonkey2) and
    change to that directory (cd seamonkey2).
    Click the Download link in the relevant Linux column for your architecture (x64 for 64-bit or x86 for 32-bit) on the site you're downloading SeaMonkey from to download the package (seamonkey-2.53.1.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2 or similar name) file
    into the seamonkey2 directory.
    Decompress the file with the following command:

    tar jxvf seamonkey-2.*.tar.bz2
    This creates a "seamonkey" directory under your seamonkey2
    directory.
    Change to the seamonkey directory (cd seamonkey).
    Run SeaMonkey with the following command:

    ./seamonkey
    -----------------------------------------------------------
    (If it really matters, I had downloaded the SeaMonkey file to this
    Win-11 Desktop, copied that file to a USB Drive, transfered that USB
    Drive to the Linux Laptop, copied the SeaMonkey file into the Home/seamonkey25321 folder then .....

    So, in my MageiaLinux Konsole, I did

    [daniel@localhost ~]$ mkdir seamonkey25321
    [daniel@localhost ~]$ cd seamonkey25321
    [daniel@localhost seamonkey25321]$ tar jxvf seamonkey-2.53.21.en-GB.linux=x86.64.tar.bz2
    tar (child): seamonkey-2.53.21.en-GB.linux=x86.64.tar.bz2: Cannot
    open: No such file or directory tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
    tar: Child returned status 2
    tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now --------------------------------------------------------

    (Correct, no such file or directory because of the '=' so I had
    another go ....)
    __________________________________________________________
    [daniel@localhost seamonkey25321]$ tar jxvf seamonkey-2.53.21.en-GB.linux-x86.64.tar.bz2
    tar (child): seamonkey-2.53.21.en-GB.linux-x86.64.tar.bz2: Cannot
    open: No such file or directory tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
    tar: Child returned status 2
    tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now ----------------------------------------------------

    but that still failed .... all I ended up with in the directory was
    the tar.bs2 file .....
    _______________________________________
    [daniel@localhost seamonkey25321]$ dir seamonkey-2.53.21.en-GB.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2
    [daniel@localhost seamonkey25321]$ ---------------------------------------------

    Can anyone in either the SeaMonkey or MageiaLinux groups to which this
    is crossposted offer me any possible solution, please??

    Ta.
    --
    Daniel70



    Vincent



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  • From Mike Easter@2:250/1 to All on Tuesday, June 17, 2025 18:32:58
    Daniel70 wrote:
    To install SeaMonkey by downloading the tar.bz2 file:

    I did this mostly graphically based on info from Mageia and SM.

    Using a live Mageia 9 XFCE to which I installed/enabled dnfdragora
    because I don't like the default installer and I wanted to see what was
    in the repo/s (no SM), then I dl/ed the current SM tar.bz2 into Downloads.

    I created a seamonkey2 dir in usr/local and tried to extract the bz2
    into it but there was a permissions problem so I used a terminal su
    chown to let the usr live do it.

    Then I opened that seamonkey2/seamonkey dir and executed the file
    seamonkey which succeeded.

    https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Seamonkey https://www.seamonkey-project.org/doc/install-and-uninstall#install_linux

    --
    Mike Easter

    --- MBSE BBS v1.1.1 (Linux-x86_64)
    * Origin: Air Applewood, The Linux Gateway to the UK & Eire (2:250/1@fidonet)
  • From Mike Easter@2:250/1 to All on Tuesday, June 17, 2025 18:53:50
    Daniel70 wrote:
    No such file or directory

    I avoid that sort of problem in the console by using the tab complete function. For example when I'm in the Downloads dir where the tar.bz2
    file is located, if I just want to look at the files in the dir I type:

    tar -tvf s

    and then I use the tab to complete the name. If there is 'overlap' type another letter and another, se(tab), sea(tab).

    I don't like to type a lot in the console, partly because I tend to make typos. I also don't like to issue commands that I don't know what they
    mean, so I would have to determine what tar jxvf means before I could
    use it, so that jxvf is use bzip2 extract verbosely the following file.



    --
    Mike Easter

    --- MBSE BBS v1.1.1 (Linux-x86_64)
    * Origin: Air Applewood, The Linux Gateway to the UK & Eire (2:250/1@fidonet)
  • From Mike Easter@2:250/1 to All on Tuesday, June 17, 2025 19:09:43
    Mike Easter wrote:
    if I just want to look at the files in the dir

    I meant to say to look at the files in the tar.bz2 file, not 'dir'.

    --
    Mike Easter

    --- MBSE BBS v1.1.1 (Linux-x86_64)
    * Origin: Air Applewood, The Linux Gateway to the UK & Eire (2:250/1@fidonet)
  • From Richmond@2:250/1 to All on Tuesday, June 17, 2025 19:17:22
    Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> writes:

    Can anyone in either the SeaMonkey or MageiaLinux groups to which this
    is crossposted offer me any solution to my problem, please??

    Some here might recall I thought my Laptop Computer had died so I have
    been using my Win-11 Desktop computer for a while (five months,
    maybe).

    Anyway, in fiddling with my Laptop, I think it might just be the Win-7
    (yes, the Laptop is old, circa 2007) that has died (so far), so I
    thought I'd have a go at installing the latest SeaMonkey on the Linux
    portion of it and see if I could get it working even if I had to
    create a new profile for it.

    So I looked up my Brain-File and found this .... _____________________________________________________
    To install SeaMonkey by downloading the tar.bz2 file:

    Create a directory named "seamonkey2" (mkdir seamonkey2) and
    change to that directory (cd seamonkey2).
    Click the Download link in the relevant Linux column for your
    architecture (x64 for 64-bit or x86 for 32-bit) on the site you're
    downloading SeaMonkey from to download the package
    (seamonkey-2.53.1.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2 or similar name) file
    into the seamonkey2 directory.
    Decompress the file with the following command:

    tar jxvf seamonkey-2.*.tar.bz2
    This creates a "seamonkey" directory under your seamonkey2 directory.
    Change to the seamonkey directory (cd seamonkey).
    Run SeaMonkey with the following command:

    ./seamonkey
    -----------------------------------------------------------
    (If it really matters, I had downloaded the SeaMonkey file to this
    Win-11 Desktop, copied that file to a USB Drive, transfered that USB
    Drive to the Linux Laptop, copied the SeaMonkey file into the Home/seamonkey25321 folder then .....

    So, in my MageiaLinux Konsole, I did

    [daniel@localhost ~]$ mkdir seamonkey25321
    [daniel@localhost ~]$ cd seamonkey25321
    [daniel@localhost seamonkey25321]$ tar jxvf seamonkey-2.53.21.en-GB.linux=x86.64.tar.bz2

    I think you need to say tar jxvf ../seamonkey-2.53.21.en-GB.linux=x86.64.tar.bz2

    because when you did "cd seamonkey25321" you were no longer in the same directory as the archive.

    .../ means the parent directory.


    --- MBSE BBS v1.1.1 (Linux-x86_64)
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  • From Richmond@2:250/1 to All on Tuesday, June 17, 2025 19:20:26
    Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> writes:

    Can anyone in either the SeaMonkey or MageiaLinux groups to which this
    is crossposted offer me any solution to my problem, please??

    Some here might recall I thought my Laptop Computer had died so I have
    been using my Win-11 Desktop computer for a while (five months,
    maybe).

    Anyway, in fiddling with my Laptop, I think it might just be the Win-7
    (yes, the Laptop is old, circa 2007) that has died (so far), so I
    thought I'd have a go at installing the latest SeaMonkey on the Linux
    portion of it and see if I could get it working even if I had to
    create a new profile for it.

    So I looked up my Brain-File and found this .... _____________________________________________________
    To install SeaMonkey by downloading the tar.bz2 file:

    Create a directory named "seamonkey2" (mkdir seamonkey2) and
    change to that directory (cd seamonkey2).
    Click the Download link in the relevant Linux column for your
    architecture (x64 for 64-bit or x86 for 32-bit) on the site you're
    downloading SeaMonkey from to download the package
    (seamonkey-2.53.1.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2 or similar name) file
    into the seamonkey2 directory.
    Decompress the file with the following command:

    tar jxvf seamonkey-2.*.tar.bz2
    This creates a "seamonkey" directory under your seamonkey2 directory.
    Change to the seamonkey directory (cd seamonkey).
    Run SeaMonkey with the following command:

    ./seamonkey
    -----------------------------------------------------------
    (If it really matters, I had downloaded the SeaMonkey file to this
    Win-11 Desktop, copied that file to a USB Drive, transfered that USB
    Drive to the Linux Laptop, copied the SeaMonkey file into the Home/seamonkey25321 folder then .....

    So, in my MageiaLinux Konsole, I did

    [daniel@localhost ~]$ mkdir seamonkey25321
    [daniel@localhost ~]$ cd seamonkey25321
    [daniel@localhost seamonkey25321]$ tar jxvf seamonkey-2.53.21.en-GB.linux=x86.64.tar.bz2
    tar (child): seamonkey-2.53.21.en-GB.linux=x86.64.tar.bz2: Cannot

    On second thoughts, why is there an = sign in that filename?

    Just type tar jxvf seam<tab> to get file name completion and avoid
    typos.

    --- MBSE BBS v1.1.1 (Linux-x86_64)
    * Origin: Frantic (2:250/1@fidonet)
  • From Nuno Silva@2:250/1 to All on Wednesday, June 18, 2025 00:01:42
    On 2025-06-17, Daniel70 wrote:

    [...]
    (Correct, no such file or directory because of the '=' so I had
    another go ....)
    __________________________________________________________
    [daniel@localhost seamonkey25321]$ tar jxvf seamonkey-2.53.21.en-GB.linux-x86.64.tar.bz2
    tar (child): seamonkey-2.53.21.en-GB.linux-x86.64.tar.bz2: Cannot
    ================================================^

    open: No such file or directory
    [...]
    but that still failed .... all I ended up with in the directory was
    the tar.bs2 file .....
    _______________________________________
    [daniel@localhost seamonkey25321]$ dir seamonkey-2.53.21.en-GB.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2
    [daniel@localhost seamonkey25321]$ ---------------------------------------------

    Can anyone in either the SeaMonkey or MageiaLinux groups to which this
    is crossposted offer me any possible solution, please??

    If this really was copy-pasted with no modification, I think there's
    still an error in the filename. I second the recommendation to use tab completion where available (behaviour may depend on the shell, but I
    think it's a common enough feature).

    But, in this case, the extraction command quoted above has "x86.64" and
    the filename appears to have an underscore there.

    --
    Nuno Silva
    (Not reading alt.os.linux.mageia)

    --- MBSE BBS v1.1.1 (Linux-x86_64)
    * Origin: A noiseless patient Spider (2:250/1@fidonet)
  • From Mike Easter@2:250/1 to All on Wednesday, June 18, 2025 00:13:17
    Daniel70 wrote:
    download the package (seamonkey-2.53.1.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2 or
    similar name)

    In this case, the current file's name is seamonkey-2.53.21.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2

    That is 2.53.21 (now, not 2.53.1) and all of the punctuation must be
    correct; do NOT try to type all that; some will surely make an error
    somewhere in the dots, dashes, or underscore.

    Tab completion not only does it perfectly, but also faster.

    --
    Mike Easter

    --- MBSE BBS v1.1.1 (Linux-x86_64)
    * Origin: Air Applewood, The Linux Gateway to the UK & Eire (2:250/1@fidonet)
  • From Mike Easter@2:250/1 to All on Wednesday, June 18, 2025 01:55:02
    Mike Easter wrote:
    I installed/enabled dnfdragora

    Another datapoint in the discussion of default live MCC software view (installed only, not available repos); once dnfdragora is installed, no further 'effort' needs to be done for the MCC software view to NOW show available repo packages in addition to installed.

    --
    Mike Easter

    --- MBSE BBS v1.1.1 (Linux-x86_64)
    * Origin: Air Applewood, The Linux Gateway to the UK & Eire (2:250/1@fidonet)
  • From Barryedwin1@2:250/1 to All on Wednesday, June 18, 2025 05:38:47
    Reply-To: barryedwingilmour@gmail.com

    Daniel70 wrote on 17/6/25 8:25 pm:
    Can anyone in either the SeaMonkey or MageiaLinux groups to which this
    is crossposted offer me any solution to my problem, please??

    Some here might recall I thought my Laptop Computer had died so I have
    been using my Win-11 Desktop computer for a while (five months, maybe).

    Anyway, in fiddling with my Laptop, I think it might just be the Win-7
    (yes, the Laptop is old, circa 2007) that has died (so far), so I
    thought I'd have a go at installing the latest SeaMonkey on the Linux portion of it and see if I could get it working even if I had to create
    a new profile for it.

    So I looked up my Brain-File and found this .... _____________________________________________________
    To install SeaMonkey by downloading the tar.bz2 file:

        Create a directory named "seamonkey2" (mkdir seamonkey2) and change to that directory (cd seamonkey2).
        Click the Download link in the relevant Linux column for your architecture (x64 for 64-bit or x86 for 32-bit) on the site you're downloading SeaMonkey from to download the package (seamonkey-2.53.1.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2 or similar name) file into
    the seamonkey2 directory.
        Decompress the file with the following command:

        tar jxvf seamonkey-2.*.tar.bz2
        This creates a "seamonkey" directory under your seamonkey2 directory.
        Change to the seamonkey directory (cd seamonkey).
        Run SeaMonkey with the following command:

        ./seamonkey -----------------------------------------------------------
    (If it really matters, I had downloaded the SeaMonkey file to this
    Win-11 Desktop, copied that file to a USB Drive, transfered that USB
    Drive to the Linux Laptop, copied the SeaMonkey file into the Home/seamonkey25321 folder then .....

    So, in my MageiaLinux Konsole, I did

    [daniel@localhost ~]$ mkdir seamonkey25321
    [daniel@localhost ~]$ cd seamonkey25321
    [daniel@localhost seamonkey25321]$ tar jxvf seamonkey-2.53.21.en-GB.linux=x86.64.tar.bz2
    tar (child): seamonkey-2.53.21.en-GB.linux=x86.64.tar.bz2: Cannot open:
    No such file or directory
    tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
    tar: Child returned status 2
    tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now --------------------------------------------------------

    (Correct, no such file or directory because of the '=' so I had another
    go ....)
    __________________________________________________________
    [daniel@localhost seamonkey25321]$ tar jxvf seamonkey-2.53.21.en-GB.linux-x86.64.tar.bz2
    tar (child): seamonkey-2.53.21.en-GB.linux-x86.64.tar.bz2: Cannot open:
    No such file or directory
    tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
    tar: Child returned status 2
    tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now ----------------------------------------------------

    but that still failed .... all I ended up with in the directory was the tar.bs2 file .....
    _______________________________________
    [daniel@localhost seamonkey25321]$ dir seamonkey-2.53.21.en-GB.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2
    [daniel@localhost seamonkey25321]$ ---------------------------------------------

    Can anyone in either the SeaMonkey or MageiaLinux groups to which this
    is crossposted offer me any possible solution, please??

    Ta.

    [daniel@localhost ~]$ mkdir seamonkey25321
    [daniel@localhost ~]$ cd seamonkey25321
    [daniel@localhost seamonkey25321]$ tar jxvf
    seamonkey-2.53.21.en-GB.linux=x86.64.tar.bz2

    Daniel, jxvf are switches for tar, so would "tar -jxvf" help? The "-"
    switch prefix is not given in your above example.

    Like others GUI unpack, I haven't had to use a CLI unpack for a while,
    but I still have to use switch prefix "-" for my cli commands to-install etcetera.
    HTH or sorry for the noise. Barry.

    --- MBSE BBS v1.1.1 (Linux-x86_64)
    * Origin: A noiseless patient Spider (2:250/1@fidonet)
  • From Daniel70@2:250/1 to All on Wednesday, June 18, 2025 10:56:12
    On 18/06/2025 4:17 am, Richmond wrote:
    Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> writes:

    Can anyone in either the SeaMonkey or MageiaLinux groups to which this
    is crossposted offer me any solution to my problem, please??

    Some here might recall I thought my Laptop Computer had died so I have
    been using my Win-11 Desktop computer for a while (five months,
    maybe).

    Anyway, in fiddling with my Laptop, I think it might just be the Win-7
    (yes, the Laptop is old, circa 2007) that has died (so far), so I
    thought I'd have a go at installing the latest SeaMonkey on the Linux
    portion of it and see if I could get it working even if I had to
    create a new profile for it.

    So I looked up my Brain-File and found this ....
    _____________________________________________________
    To install SeaMonkey by downloading the tar.bz2 file:

    Create a directory named "seamonkey2" (mkdir seamonkey2) and
    change to that directory (cd seamonkey2).
    Click the Download link in the relevant Linux column for your
    architecture (x64 for 64-bit or x86 for 32-bit) on the site you're
    downloading SeaMonkey from to download the package
    (seamonkey-2.53.1.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2 or similar name) file
    into the seamonkey2 directory.
    Decompress the file with the following command:

    tar jxvf seamonkey-2.*.tar.bz2
    This creates a "seamonkey" directory under your seamonkey2 directory. >> Change to the seamonkey directory (cd seamonkey).
    Run SeaMonkey with the following command:

    ./seamonkey
    -----------------------------------------------------------
    (If it really matters, I had downloaded the SeaMonkey file to this
    Win-11 Desktop, copied that file to a USB Drive, transfered that USB
    Drive to the Linux Laptop, copied the SeaMonkey file into the
    Home/seamonkey25321 folder then .....

    So, in my MageiaLinux Konsole, I did

    [daniel@localhost ~]$ mkdir seamonkey25321
    [daniel@localhost ~]$ cd seamonkey25321
    [daniel@localhost seamonkey25321]$ tar jxvf
    seamonkey-2.53.21.en-GB.linux=x86.64.tar.bz2

    I think you need to say tar jxvf ../seamonkey-2.53.21.en-GB.linux=x86.64.tar.bz2

    because when you did "cd seamonkey25321" you were no longer in the same directory as the archive.

    ../ means the parent directory.

    Ah!! O.K., I'll have to have a think about that. Thanks.

    --
    Daniel70

    --- MBSE BBS v1.1.1 (Linux-x86_64)
    * Origin: A noiseless patient Spider (2:250/1@fidonet)
  • From Daniel70@2:250/1 to All on Wednesday, June 18, 2025 11:00:37
    On 18/06/2025 4:20 am, Richmond wrote:
    Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> writes:

    Can anyone in either the SeaMonkey or MageiaLinux groups to which this
    is crossposted offer me any solution to my problem, please??

    Some here might recall I thought my Laptop Computer had died so I have
    been using my Win-11 Desktop computer for a while (five months,
    maybe).

    Anyway, in fiddling with my Laptop, I think it might just be the Win-7
    (yes, the Laptop is old, circa 2007) that has died (so far), so I
    thought I'd have a go at installing the latest SeaMonkey on the Linux
    portion of it and see if I could get it working even if I had to
    create a new profile for it.

    So I looked up my Brain-File and found this ....
    _____________________________________________________
    To install SeaMonkey by downloading the tar.bz2 file:

    Create a directory named "seamonkey2" (mkdir seamonkey2) and
    change to that directory (cd seamonkey2).
    Click the Download link in the relevant Linux column for your
    architecture (x64 for 64-bit or x86 for 32-bit) on the site you're
    downloading SeaMonkey from to download the package
    (seamonkey-2.53.1.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2 or similar name) file
    into the seamonkey2 directory.
    Decompress the file with the following command:

    tar jxvf seamonkey-2.*.tar.bz2
    This creates a "seamonkey" directory under your seamonkey2 directory. >> Change to the seamonkey directory (cd seamonkey).
    Run SeaMonkey with the following command:

    ./seamonkey
    -----------------------------------------------------------
    (If it really matters, I had downloaded the SeaMonkey file to this
    Win-11 Desktop, copied that file to a USB Drive, transfered that USB
    Drive to the Linux Laptop, copied the SeaMonkey file into the
    Home/seamonkey25321 folder then .....

    So, in my MageiaLinux Konsole, I did

    [daniel@localhost ~]$ mkdir seamonkey25321
    [daniel@localhost ~]$ cd seamonkey25321
    [daniel@localhost seamonkey25321]$ tar jxvf
    seamonkey-2.53.21.en-GB.linux=x86.64.tar.bz2
    tar (child): seamonkey-2.53.21.en-GB.linux=x86.64.tar.bz2: Cannot

    On second thoughts, why is there an = sign in that filename?

    My failing eyesight .... even with my glasses ..... but I notice the '=' myself and adjusted it to '-' in the portion of my OP that you didn't
    quote. ;-)

    Just type tar jxvf seam<tab> to get file name completion and avoid
    typos.

    --
    Daniel70

    --- MBSE BBS v1.1.1 (Linux-x86_64)
    * Origin: A noiseless patient Spider (2:250/1@fidonet)
  • From Daniel70@2:250/1 to All on Wednesday, June 18, 2025 11:01:56
    On 18/06/2025 8:13 am, Vincent Coen wrote:

    Hello Daniel70!

    17 Jun 25 13:25, Daniel70 wrote to all:

    Drop the 'j' in tar and yes just tried it.

    Keeping it simple! I like the idea, Vincent. Thank you.
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    Daniel70

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  • From Daniel70@2:250/1 to All on Wednesday, June 18, 2025 11:05:37
    On 18/06/2025 9:01 am, Nuno Silva wrote:
    On 2025-06-17, Daniel70 wrote:

    [...]
    (Correct, no such file or directory because of the '=' so I had
    another go ....)
    __________________________________________________________
    [daniel@localhost seamonkey25321]$ tar jxvf
    seamonkey-2.53.21.en-GB.linux-x86.64.tar.bz2
    tar (child): seamonkey-2.53.21.en-GB.linux-x86.64.tar.bz2: Cannot
    ================================================^

    open: No such file or directory
    [...]
    but that still failed .... all I ended up with in the directory was
    the tar.bs2 file .....
    _______________________________________
    [daniel@localhost seamonkey25321]$ dir
    seamonkey-2.53.21.en-GB.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2
    [daniel@localhost seamonkey25321]$
    ---------------------------------------------

    Can anyone in either the SeaMonkey or MageiaLinux groups to which this
    is crossposted offer me any possible solution, please??

    If this really was copy-pasted with no modification, I think there's
    still an error in the filename. I second the recommendation to use tab completion where available (behaviour may depend on the shell, but I
    think it's a common enough feature).

    But, in this case, the extraction command quoted above has "x86.64" and
    the filename appears to have an underscore there.

    Eagle Eyes. Well done

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    Daniel70

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  • From Richmond@2:250/1 to All on Wednesday, June 18, 2025 11:06:33
    Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> writes:

    On 18/06/2025 4:20 am, Richmond wrote:
    Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> writes:

    Can anyone in either the SeaMonkey or MageiaLinux groups to which this
    is crossposted offer me any solution to my problem, please??

    Some here might recall I thought my Laptop Computer had died so I have
    been using my Win-11 Desktop computer for a while (five months,
    maybe).

    Anyway, in fiddling with my Laptop, I think it might just be the Win-7
    (yes, the Laptop is old, circa 2007) that has died (so far), so I
    thought I'd have a go at installing the latest SeaMonkey on the Linux
    portion of it and see if I could get it working even if I had to
    create a new profile for it.

    So I looked up my Brain-File and found this ....
    _____________________________________________________
    To install SeaMonkey by downloading the tar.bz2 file:

    Create a directory named "seamonkey2" (mkdir seamonkey2) and
    change to that directory (cd seamonkey2).
    Click the Download link in the relevant Linux column for your
    architecture (x64 for 64-bit or x86 for 32-bit) on the site you're
    downloading SeaMonkey from to download the package
    (seamonkey-2.53.1.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2 or similar name) file
    into the seamonkey2 directory.
    Decompress the file with the following command:

    tar jxvf seamonkey-2.*.tar.bz2
    This creates a "seamonkey" directory under your seamonkey2 directory. >>> Change to the seamonkey directory (cd seamonkey).
    Run SeaMonkey with the following command:

    ./seamonkey
    -----------------------------------------------------------
    (If it really matters, I had downloaded the SeaMonkey file to this
    Win-11 Desktop, copied that file to a USB Drive, transfered that USB
    Drive to the Linux Laptop, copied the SeaMonkey file into the
    Home/seamonkey25321 folder then .....

    So, in my MageiaLinux Konsole, I did

    [daniel@localhost ~]$ mkdir seamonkey25321
    [daniel@localhost ~]$ cd seamonkey25321
    [daniel@localhost seamonkey25321]$ tar jxvf
    seamonkey-2.53.21.en-GB.linux=x86.64.tar.bz2
    tar (child): seamonkey-2.53.21.en-GB.linux=x86.64.tar.bz2: Cannot
    On second thoughts, why is there an = sign in that filename?

    My failing eyesight .... even with my glasses ..... but I notice the
    '=' myself and adjusted it to '-' in the portion of my OP that you
    didn't quote. ;-)


    Ah yes, but in your original post you said you copied the file into seamonkey25321, and then later you said you did mkdir seamonkey25321
    which would be impossible if you had already copied the file into it, so
    come on, get your story straight. ;]



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  • From Daniel70@2:250/1 to All on Wednesday, June 18, 2025 11:09:06
    On 18/06/2025 2:38 pm, Barryedwin1 wrote:
    Daniel70 wrote on 17/6/25 8:25 pm:
    Can anyone in either the SeaMonkey or MageiaLinux groups to which this
    is crossposted offer me any solution to my problem, please??

    Some here might recall I thought my Laptop Computer had died so I have
    been using my Win-11 Desktop computer for a while (five months, maybe).

    Anyway, in fiddling with my Laptop, I think it might just be the Win-7
    (yes, the Laptop is old, circa 2007) that has died (so far), so I
    thought I'd have a go at installing the latest SeaMonkey on the Linux
    portion of it and see if I could get it working even if I had to
    create a new profile for it.

    So I looked up my Brain-File and found this ....
    _____________________________________________________
    To install SeaMonkey by downloading the tar.bz2 file:

         Create a directory named "seamonkey2" (mkdir seamonkey2) and
    change to that directory (cd seamonkey2).
         Click the Download link in the relevant Linux column for your
    architecture (x64 for 64-bit or x86 for 32-bit) on the site you're
    downloading SeaMonkey from to download the package
    (seamonkey-2.53.1.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2 or similar name) file
    into the seamonkey2 directory.
         Decompress the file with the following command:

         tar jxvf seamonkey-2.*.tar.bz2
         This creates a "seamonkey" directory under your seamonkey2
    directory.
         Change to the seamonkey directory (cd seamonkey).
         Run SeaMonkey with the following command:

         ./seamonkey
    -----------------------------------------------------------
    (If it really matters, I had downloaded the SeaMonkey file to this
    Win-11 Desktop, copied that file to a USB Drive, transfered that USB
    Drive to the Linux Laptop, copied the SeaMonkey file into the
    Home/seamonkey25321 folder then .....

    So, in my MageiaLinux Konsole, I did

    [daniel@localhost ~]$ mkdir seamonkey25321
    [daniel@localhost ~]$ cd seamonkey25321
    [daniel@localhost seamonkey25321]$ tar jxvf
    seamonkey-2.53.21.en-GB.linux=x86.64.tar.bz2
    tar (child): seamonkey-2.53.21.en-GB.linux=x86.64.tar.bz2: Cannot
    open: No such file or directory
    tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
    tar: Child returned status 2
    tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
    --------------------------------------------------------

    (Correct, no such file or directory because of the '=' so I had
    another go ....)
    __________________________________________________________
    [daniel@localhost seamonkey25321]$ tar jxvf
    seamonkey-2.53.21.en-GB.linux-x86.64.tar.bz2
    tar (child): seamonkey-2.53.21.en-GB.linux-x86.64.tar.bz2: Cannot
    open: No such file or directory
    tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
    tar: Child returned status 2
    tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
    ----------------------------------------------------

    but that still failed .... all I ended up with in the directory was
    the tar.bs2 file .....
    _______________________________________
    [daniel@localhost seamonkey25321]$ dir
    seamonkey-2.53.21.en-GB.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2
    [daniel@localhost seamonkey25321]$
    ---------------------------------------------

    Can anyone in either the SeaMonkey or MageiaLinux groups to which this
    is crossposted offer me any possible solution, please??

    Ta.

    [daniel@localhost ~]$ mkdir seamonkey25321
    [daniel@localhost ~]$ cd seamonkey25321
    [daniel@localhost seamonkey25321]$ tar jxvf
    seamonkey-2.53.21.en-GB.linux=x86.64.tar.bz2

    Daniel, jxvf are switches for tar, so would "tar -jxvf" help? The "-"
    switch prefix is not given in your above example.

    Like others GUI unpack, I haven't had to use a CLI unpack for a while,
    but I still have to use switch prefix "-" for my cli commands to-install etcetera.
    HTH or sorry for the noise. Barry.

    O.K., another useful suggestion. Thank you, Barry.
    --
    Daniel70

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  • From Daniel70@2:250/1 to All on Wednesday, June 18, 2025 11:18:27
    On 18/06/2025 8:06 pm, Richmond wrote:
    Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> writes:

    On 18/06/2025 4:20 am, Richmond wrote:
    Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> writes:

    Can anyone in either the SeaMonkey or MageiaLinux groups to which this >>>> is crossposted offer me any solution to my problem, please??

    Some here might recall I thought my Laptop Computer had died so I have >>>> been using my Win-11 Desktop computer for a while (five months,
    maybe).

    Anyway, in fiddling with my Laptop, I think it might just be the Win-7 >>>> (yes, the Laptop is old, circa 2007) that has died (so far), so I
    thought I'd have a go at installing the latest SeaMonkey on the Linux
    portion of it and see if I could get it working even if I had to
    create a new profile for it.

    So I looked up my Brain-File and found this ....
    _____________________________________________________
    To install SeaMonkey by downloading the tar.bz2 file:

    Create a directory named "seamonkey2" (mkdir seamonkey2) and
    change to that directory (cd seamonkey2).
    Click the Download link in the relevant Linux column for your
    architecture (x64 for 64-bit or x86 for 32-bit) on the site you're >>>> downloading SeaMonkey from to download the package
    (seamonkey-2.53.1.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2 or similar name) file >>>> into the seamonkey2 directory.
    Decompress the file with the following command:

    tar jxvf seamonkey-2.*.tar.bz2
    This creates a "seamonkey" directory under your seamonkey2 directory.
    Change to the seamonkey directory (cd seamonkey).
    Run SeaMonkey with the following command:

    ./seamonkey
    -----------------------------------------------------------
    (If it really matters, I had downloaded the SeaMonkey file to this
    Win-11 Desktop, copied that file to a USB Drive, transfered that USB
    Drive to the Linux Laptop, copied the SeaMonkey file into the
    Home/seamonkey25321 folder then .....

    So, in my MageiaLinux Konsole, I did

    [daniel@localhost ~]$ mkdir seamonkey25321
    [daniel@localhost ~]$ cd seamonkey25321
    [daniel@localhost seamonkey25321]$ tar jxvf
    seamonkey-2.53.21.en-GB.linux=x86.64.tar.bz2
    tar (child): seamonkey-2.53.21.en-GB.linux=x86.64.tar.bz2: Cannot
    On second thoughts, why is there an = sign in that filename?

    My failing eyesight .... even with my glasses ..... but I notice the
    '=' myself and adjusted it to '-' in the portion of my OP that you
    didn't quote. ;-)


    Ah yes, but in your original post you said you copied the file into seamonkey25321, and then later you said you did mkdir seamonkey25321
    which would be impossible if you had already copied the file into it, so
    come on, get your story straight. ;]

    Hmm! Yes, I did type that sequency .... but then how did I copy a file
    into a folder which I hadn't created yet?? ;-(

    Well spotted, Richmond.
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    Daniel70

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