Re: Installing/running non-Debian executables

[Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net>]

On 12/19/2016 11:48 AM, Michael Lange wrote:
> 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.

Thank you. That almost solves my problem. As stated in its 
preface, it is developer oriented. That is a different mindset 
than end-user. I had done a web search and had found a "HOW TO" 
that was unsatisfactory as it had omitted some of the info given 
in your reference. I'll have to re-do my search not having 
bookmarked what I had found ;/
Thanks again.