1358316 - Update System Requirements for Linux on seamonkey-project.org as they changed for 2.48

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: Project Organization, enhancement)

Description

[rsx11m]

So, I'm trying to run SeaMonkey 2.48b1 on an older machine which has just libstdc++ 4.5 installed and get the message "/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.15' not found" given that only GLIBCXX_3.4.14 is provided by that version of the library.

Thus, we'll need to modify https://www.seamonkey-project.org/doc/system-requirements to "libstdc++ 4.6.1 or higher" and also amend "X.Org 1.0 or higher (1.7 or higher is recommended)" similar what Thunderbird did with https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/52.0/system-requirements/

Note that "PulseAudio" doesn't apply to us given that ALSA is still supported in SeaMonkey builds.

Comment 1

[rsx11m]

Attachment: Resynchronize with TB specs

This adapts all requirements and recommendations made in the Thunderbird counterpart, hoping that it is accurately reflecting reality. :-)

Comment 2

[Frank-Rainer Grahl (:frg)]

>> hoping that it is accurately reflecting reality. :-)

It should for 2.49 but not 2.48  :)

Comment 3

[rsx11m]

Well, experimental evidence shows that at least the libstdc++ part applies to 2.48 already. :-p
I don't see a separate page for TB 51.0b1 to check, so let's assume that it's reasonable.

Comment 4

[rsx11m]

BTW: 2.46 still runs on that machine, so it's a fairly recent change.

Comment 5

[Frank-Rainer Grahl (:frg)]

Comment on attachment 8860222 [details] [diff] [review]
Resynchronize with TB specs

I think 2.48 will still run (crawl) on the Pentium 2. Target milestone for Bug 1324017 and friends was Gecko 53 /SeaMonkey 2.50.

Comment 6

[Frank-Rainer Grahl (:frg)]

>> GLIBCXX_3.4.15

Btw. I confused this with gtk3 so this part should be accurate as you already found out the hard way.

FRG

Comment 7

[rsx11m]

Attachment: Update library and memory specs only

> I think 2.48 will still run (crawl) on the Pentium 2.

Sorry, my last Pentium 2 died at least 10 years ago, thus I couldn't check if it still works. :-)
I've removed that change but left the new memory recommendation which probably still applies.

Comment 8

[Frank-Rainer Grahl (:frg)]

Comment on attachment 8860551 [details] [diff] [review]
Update library and memory specs only

Looks good to me. Stealing review. 

When I changed the requirements the last time I already thought about upping the minimum RAM to 1 GB. Didn't do it because older Linux usually needs less than Windows. But with todays bloated websites you hit 400 to 700 MB for SeaMonkey alone pretty fast  even when not using mail.

Comment 9

[Frank-Rainer Grahl (:frg)]

Pushed it. Does the website autoupdates itself?

https://hg.mozilla.org/SeaMonkey/seamonkey-project-org/rev/9d5938bf7f3d1cd10bfbf5a024a29309fb22babe

Comment 10

[rsx11m]

Thanks for landing, visible now, done here -> FIXED.