[SOLVED] Application Updates

[JimBoCol]

I'm not sure what's going on here, but I posted a message this morning, and it has disappeared.

At any rate, I have a new version of seamonkey that I have downloaded from the official site. I have tried to install it with System>Administration>Add/Remove Applications, and it seems that nothing but predefined applications are available. I go into System/Administration>Update Manager, it's the same thing.

Both Softwares are pointing to an older version of seamonkey 1.11 something, and the new version is 2.0 something.

I downloaded a .gz package, and when I open it, it contains a complete file structure. Am I just supposed to unpack it, and overwrite the existing file system for seamonkey? It appears to be identical inside the package as what is on the hard drive.

Thanks,
Jim.

[oz]

I'm not sure what's going on here, but I posted a message this morning, and it has disappeared.

Are you sure it wasn't on another forum that you posted? I just checked all your posts for the last 48 hours and there doesn't appear to be any that were deleted.

[JimBoCol]

Are you sure it wasn't on another forum that you posted? I just checked all your posts for the last 48 hours and there doesn't appear to be any that were deleted.

Maybe I hit preview post instead of post.

Thanks,
Jim.

[elija]

I downloaded a .gz package, and when I open it, it contains a complete file structure. Am I just supposed to unpack it, and overwrite the existing file system for seamonkey? It appears to be identical inside the package as what is on the hard drive.

Thanks,
Jim.

It depends.

What I would do is one of the following

For personal use only, I would unpack it in my home directory and create a menu item.

If I wanted all users to have access to it, I would unpack it into /opt - you will need root (sudo) for the second one. This is where I tend to put software that I don't install from the repositories.

You can remove the current version using Synaptic first.

Hope this helps

[reed9]

Hello. There is a ppa repository which tracks the latest seamonkey.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:seamonkey2/seamonkey2
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install seamonkey2

[JimBoCol]

Hello. There is a ppa repository which tracks the latest seamonkey.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:seamonkey2/seamonkey2
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install seamonkey2

Thank you very much. I really enjoyed watching it do all of those things. That was so very easy, just two commands. This was the first time that I have installed something from a terminal prompt in Linux instead of using one of the graphic interfaces off of the menu.

I can't wait until I have a good grasp on Linux commands, and how they work.

Other than being a bit lost and unsure of some things, I am really enjoying my Linux experience, and of course let's give credit where credit is due, a very big thank you to you and all of the others that have been helping me, and seeing to it that my Linux experience is a good one.

Thanks,
Jim.