[TriLUG] Kompozer for Ubuntu 12.10?

[Ron Kelley]

Hi Steve,

Have you looked at the SeaMonkey project?  It is very similar to Firefox (based on the Mozilla code) and has a built-in WYSIWYG html editor.

http://www.seamonkey-project.org



-Ron



On Feb 20, 2013, at 8:38 PM, Steve Litt wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Kompozer is one of my mission critical apps. When making web pages, I
> want WYSIWYG so I'm not continually wondering where in the skads of
> code corresponds to the section I want to edit. For me, WYSIWYG web
> page construction is simply a time saver.
> 
> Unfortunately, look what happens:
> 
> ============================
> slitt at mydesk:~$ sudo apt-get install kompozer
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree       
> Reading state information... Done
> Package kompozer is not available, but is referred to by another
> package.
> This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
> is only available from another source
> 
> E: Package 'kompozer' has no installation candidate
> slitt at mydesk:~$
> =============================
> 
> Does anyone know a different software source I can plug in to get
> Kompozer running?
> 
> I tried getting a tarball and freelancing it, but the tarball from the
> Kompozer website is some kind of pre-compiled thing, with no INSTALL or
> README, that contains the executable, but look what it does:
> 
> =========================
> slitt at mydesk:~/junk/kompozer$ ./kompozer-bin
> ./kompozer-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libmozjs.so:
> wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
> slitt at mydesk:~/junk/kompozer$ 
> =========================
> 
> I installed Bluefish, took one look at its interface, and realized it
> would cut my web creation productivity in half. Amaya and Quanta Plus
> aren't even findable in apt-cache search.
> 
> I guess my fallback position is Vim, but that's quite a fall back, and
> would cut my productivity almost as much as Bluefish.
> 
> If anyone knows how I can get a working Kompozer on my Ubuntu 12.10,
> please let me know. If anyone knows of a high productivity web editor
> that I can install on Linux, please let me know. At this point I'd even
> pay for Dreamweaver, but it can't be installed on Linux.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> SteveT
> 
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