1/9/2024 0 Comments Seamonkey ppa![]() This post is being composed and published entirely via email, which is simply the way I prefer to do it when I can. Actually more options than Seamonkey offers, believe it or not. That’s the options available in the Composer window. Full HTML composing using a Thunderbird-like WYSIWYG editor (oh, that’s “What You See Is What You Get”) and a truly super-cool interface, friendly enough for a little, mildly technophobic sidekick. Not available in Slackware or Salix because there’s just no Gnome stuff available for Slackware users, it is absolutely awesome. But it’s FOSS, released under the GPL license, officially a Gnome project distributed by Novell (whatever that means, I got my copy from the repository, lol). I guess I have avoided this one for so long because of it’s association with Novell, a big office software company. For those who are aware of HTML’s “risks” and prefer only plain text, these two are very popular in the Linux world. Hey I’m just a simple little sidekick, still scared of “complicated” software, and I prefer to keep things simple. It’s possible to write HTML messages, but you have to add a whole ‘nother application, an external editor. I didn’t bother because neither has a mail composer that offers anything but plain text. I didn’t even bother with the very popular and supposedly “full-featured” email clients Claws-Mail and Slypheed. Rich Text is available but without any choice of font – just the default font and size, and the only rich-text options are color, Bold, Italics, Strikethrough, and Underline. Neither has a proper Address Book, but depend on gathered addresses from incoming and outgoing e-mail. Why fork a good project just to change it’s name? I found no difference whatsoever in my week-long comparison of the two. The only difference was the default icon for the Xfce Panel, and the absence of any icons for certain options in Pantheon-Mail. I found absolutely no difference between the two at all, installing Geary from the Ubuntu repositories and Pantheon-Mail from ElementaryOS’ PPA. Pantheon-Mail is ElementaryOS’ own fork of the little Gnome e-mail client called Geary. Very nice, but not as full-featured as Thunderbird or Seamonkey just because of the Composer. That’s it’s only drawback – that and, of course, all the KDE dependencies that come with it when trying to install it in Linux Lite (Xfce desktop environment). KMail is a sweet little KDE application that does almost everything quickly and simply, but it doesn’t allow for embedding images while composing HTML messages. Now it’s rock-stable on Linux Lite, Xubuntu, and SalixOS. It used to crash inexplicably all the time. It can “identify” as any browser you wish, has built-in and customizable “add-on” options like Ad Blocker (which I don’t use, by the way, perhaps more on that later). ![]() My browser is Xfce’s own wonderful ultralight browser, Midori. ![]() I tried out a few and settled on two awesome applications that not only give me everything Seamonkey did, but with less demand on system resources. I was hoping to find an equal replacement for Seamonkey that is entirely free and open-source. Although it also has Firefox and Thunderbird in it, the package names are different from standard ones and so should not conflict with existing packages you have installed.Last month I wrote about replacing all the Mozilla stuff on my computer, as a kinda-sorta protest against their stupid, purely political decision to fire their CEO because he dared to hold and dared to express a politically incorrect opinion about gay “marriage.” I love the Mozilla products, especially Seamonkey – the wonderful Internet Suite risen like a phoenix from the ashes of the Netscape project. The repository is maintained by nanotube on Sourceforge. Run sudo apt install seamonkey-mozilla-build If not already installed, may need to run sudo apt install dirmngr to import keysĪpt will redirect to a secure URL when you run apt update. This method can be problematic and does little to ensure that you will get proper updates on time.Įdit your /etc/apt/sources.list file and add the following line to it: deb all main The first way is to acquire the 64-bit source tarball from and install it following the instructions. There are two ways you can install Seamonkey on Debian. Using third-party repositories as recommended below is not supported by the Debian project and could break your system now or when you upgrade later.
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