Using third-party repositories as recommended below is not supported by the Debian project and could break your system now or when you upgrade later. Use with caution at your own risk!

Because there is nothing that replaces composer (AKA nvu, kompozer) that is wysiwyg and can produce non bloated html, this rather old and not well supported software is still very popular. There are two ways you can install Seamonkey on Debian.

The first way is to acquire the 64-bit source tarball from seamonkey-project.org and install it following the instructions. This method can be problematic and does little to ensure that you will get proper updates on time.

The other way is far easier.

  1. Edit your /etc/apt/sources.list file and add the following line to it: deb https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/ubuntuzilla/mozilla/apt all main

  2. If not already installed, may need to run sudo apt install dirmngr to import keys

  3. Apt will redirect to a secure URL https://versaweb.dl.sourceforge.net/project/ubuntuzilla/mozilla/apt when you run apt update.

  4. Run sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver hkps://keyserver.ubuntu.com "C772 05F7 194A 3E1A BE2D ?F9A4 ?B7B9 C16F 2667 CA5C"

  5. Run sudo apt update

  6. Run sudo apt install seamonkey-mozilla-build

The repository is maintained by nanotube on Sourceforge. Although it also has Firefox and Thunderbird in it, the package names are different from standard ones and so should not conflict with existing packages you have installed.

** This link gives current instructions in case something changes https://sourceforge.net/p/ubuntuzilla/wiki/Main_Page/


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