Re: Installing/running non-Debian executables

[Michael Lange <klappnase@freenet.de>]

On Mon, 19 Dec 2016 08:23:15 -0600
Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> wrote:

> I'm running Jessie with Mate DE.
> 
> I need to run the *IDENTICAL* versions of SeaMonkey (2.40) on 
> both my Windows and Debian machines. Downloading the appropriate 
> file, unpacking it, placing results in my Home folder, and 
> marking seamonkey as executable goes well.
> 
> Creating a launcher on desktop and test run shows no problem.
> 
> How do I place the launcher on the Applications drop down menu?

You will probably need a file seamonkey.desktop (as with Gnome)
in /usr/share/applications , see
here:https://developer.gnome.org/integration-guide/stable/desktop-files.html.en
for details.

Regards

Michael

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