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Software - Support => Installing Software => Topic started by: paul59 on August 09, 2014, 08:55:18 AM
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I downloaded the latest Seamonkey but it complains about a missing file when trying to start it:
error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
I installed libstdc++6 (and the dev files just in case) but the error remains. I can't find the specified file on my system and can't find a fix via Google.... any suggestions please?
Paul
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I downloaded the latest Seamonkey but it complains about a missing file when trying to start it:
error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
I installed libstdc++6 (and the dev files just in case) but the error remains. I can't find the specified file on my system and can't find a fix via Google.... any suggestions please?
Paul
As a test on my persistent 8 gig Linux Lite 2.0 Usb install I downloaded and extracted
linux@linux:~$ ls
Desktop Downloads Pictures seamonkey Templates
Documents Music Public seamonkey-2.26.1.tar.bz2 Videos
Going into the seamonky folder
linux@linux:~$ cd seamonkey
linux@linux:~/seamonkey$ ls
application.ini libldap60.so libxul.so
blocklist.xml libldif60.so license.txt
chrome libmozalloc.so mozilla-xremote-client
chrome.manifest libmozsqlite3.so omni.ja
components libnspr4.so platform.ini
crashreporter libnss3.so plugin-container
crashreporter.ini libnssckbi.so precomplete
crashreporter-override.ini libnssdbm3.chk removed-files
defaults libnssdbm3.so run-mozilla.sh
dependentlibs.list libnssutil3.so seamonkey
dictionaries libplc4.so seamonkey-bin
distribution libplds4.so searchplugins
extensions libprldap60.so Throbber-small.gif
icons libsmime3.so updater
isp libsoftokn3.chk updater.ini
libfreebl3.chk libsoftokn3.so update-settings.ini
libfreebl3.so libssl3.so
I see that everything I need to run seamonkey is in that extracted folder. So I go to seamonkey in the folder,
right click and pick execute. Seamonkey opens.
So I am not understanding why yiou can't run seamoinkey out of that folder?
You do not mention what steps you took to install Seamonkey in linux lite.
If me. I'd run it in /opt with the folder I mentioned and make a launcher point to /opt/seamonkey/seamonkey.
But that is just how I roll.
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Where did you download seamonkey from originally? I don't recommend using software outside of what Synaptic provides, it's a minefield out there and can land you in these kind of situations. Open a terminal and type:
sudo apt-get -f install
If your original download was a .deb file. The above command should give you the additional packages you need to run seamonkey.
or do as rokytnji suggested if you got the download from here - http://www.seamonkey-project.org/releases/
Is there any reason why you need seamonkey specifically?
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Or if you want GUI, open
menu ->system -> synaptic package manager (SPM)
and search for seamonkey. Click it and toggle to install. Then click "apply" to install it.
SPM is a frontend GUI for apt-get.
Sheng-Chieh
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Thanks both. I downloaded Seamonkey from the project site, extracted it into my ~/programs directory (I prefer to keep stuff out of the rest of the file system if possible) and tried to run it from the terminal.
Having installed libstdc++6 and re-booted I'm now getting a different error:
paul@HP-Pavilion-15:~/programs/seamonkey$ ./seamonkey
XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /home/paul/programs/seamonkey/libxul.so:
libdbus-glib-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Couldn't load XPCOM.
Seamonkey isn't in the ubuntu repositories (I think because some of the libraries it uses have been replaced with newer versions - or something like that), so I can't install via apt-get/synaptic.
It's not really a LL issue so don't worry, I'll track down the problem. :D
Paul
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The fix for this was simple: The official 32 bit build doesn't seem to like 64 bit systems (or mine at least). There's an unofficial 'contributed build' for AMD64 listed on the download page here http://www.seamonkey-project.org/releases/#2.26.1 which works flawlessly.
Seamonkey is 'stand-alone' and can be installed in any location - installation is just a case of unpacking the archive. It stores your Seamonkey user profile (mailboxes, preferences etc) in ~/.mozilla/seamonkey/ and can be 'uninstalled' by removing the program folder and profile folder.
I've found it to have far fewer annoyances than later versions of Firefox and although it's based on the same rendering engine seems to be much more nimble. The interface can be made pretty minimal and the simple wysiwyg html composer is also very handy :D
Paul
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thanks for the info,
it took me awhile but i finally achieved seamonkey success
i have been using it for over a decade,
best browser with integrated email (plus a simple wysiwyg built-in composer, they also have a firebug add-on called web developer)
should be part of the lite software imo