Please note that installing SeaMonkey will overwrite your existing installation of SeaMonkey. You won't lose any of your bookmarks, browsing history or mail and news messages, but some of your extensions and other add-ons might not work until updates for them are made available.
For Windows 2000/XP systems, you need Administrator privileges to install SeaMonkey. If you see an "Error 5" message during installation, make sure you're running the installation with Administrator privileges.
Windows may warn you that it could not verify the publisher when you try to run
the installer. This is because the SeaMonkey installer for Windows is not digitally
signed. As long as you downloaded the installer from either www.seamonkey-project.org
or mozilla.org, you can safely ignore it (more experienced users may use the checksums
linked to from the download pages to verify the integrity of the installer).
Windows Vista/7 will by default present you with an additional warning after
extracting finished. You also need to confirm this User Account Control warning
in order to proceed with the installation.
To install SeaMonkey by downloading the SeaMonkey installer, follow these steps:
To install SeaMonkey by downloading the .zip file and installing manually, follow these steps (normal users should NOT do that but use the installer as described above):
This step assumes you already have a recent version of WinZip (or a similar zip tool) installed, and that you know how to use it.
To install SeaMonkey, follow these steps:
There is no installer available, but just extracting the tar.bz2 to the default directory (usually /usr/local/seamonkey) achieves the same result as an installer would.
To install SeaMonkey by downloading the tar.bz2 file:
tar jxvf seamonkey-2.*.tar.bz2
This creates a "seamonkey" directory under your seamonkey2 directory../seamonkey
To hook up SeaMonkey complete with icon to the GNOME Panel, follow these steps:
directory_name/seamonkey
where directory_name is the name of the directory you extracted SeaMonkey into. For example, the default directory that SeaMonkey suggests is /usr/local/seamonkey so the full command would be /usr/local/seamonkey/seamonkey.directory_name/chrome/icons/default/default.png
where, again, directory_name is the directory where you installed SeaMonkey. For example, using the default directory /usr/local/seamonkey results in an icon location of /usr/local/seamonkey/chrome/icons/default/default.png.The procedure is quite similar in the Xfce environment:
You can remove SeaMonkey through the Control Panel in the Start Menu on Windows, by removing the SeaMonkey application on OS X, or by removing the seamonkey folder on Linux.
Removing SeaMonkey won't remove your bookmarks, web browsing history, mail and news messages, extensions or other add-ons. This data is stored in your profile folder, which is located in one of the following locations depending on your operating system:
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Users\<UserName>\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\SeaMonkey |
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Documents and Settings\<UserName>\Application Data\Mozilla\SeaMonkey |
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~/Library/Application Support/SeaMonkey |
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~/.mozilla/seamonkey |
Any version of SeaMonkey 2.0 or higher that you install after removing SeaMonkey will continue to use the data from this profile folder. Note that SeaMonkey 1.x does not share this location of the profile folder and uses data from an independent location.