seamonkey update in FC5 is broken?

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 1/6/07, Joe Smith <jes at martnet.com> wrote:
> Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> > ...
> > I had been using seamonkey from extras.  I think seamonkey got
> > promoted into core as of yesterday, and as a result replaced mozilla,
> > and created this fiasco as someone thought that creating a seemless
> > transition for those still using mozilla was more important than for
> > those who had been using seamonkey all along.
>
> Ok, that makes sense even if it was a big nuisance for me as a SM user.
>
> In addition to the other problems, when my installed seamonkey package
> was updated, it failed to take into account the fact that the previous
> "seamonkey" package included the whole suite, so it did not install all
> the packages needed for equivalent functionality (like mail!).

I got all of the other packages.

>
> Also, the /usr/bin/mozilla script works, but coughs up these errors:
>
> $ mozilla
> grep: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open
> shared object file: No such file or directory
> cut: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared
> object file: No such file or directory
> sed: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared
> object file: No such file or directory
>
> Why? I don't know.

Yea, same errors here, so its not just you.

>
> > It was just a matter of copying them all from the old location to the
> > new, so it wasn't too painful .
>
> Since forever I've installed the plugins in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins,
> which is checked and used by every mozilla version, FF, and seamonkey as
> well. The updated SM picked up all my plugins from there as well.

In my experience that has never worked consistantly.  Sometimes the
plugins seem to work from /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins, and other times
they do not.


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