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[Neo Sze Wee <neoszewee AT gmx.net>]

On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 11:10:58AM -0500, James Miller (office) wrote:
> I personally prefer having both pkgtool and installpkg.  I think that, in
> general, newbies are going to gravitate towards using pkgtool, since it is
> a semi-gui app, and people generally can't have much rapport with
> computers these days without a gui.
> 
> On Tue, 13 May 2003 keesan2 AT cyberspace.org wrote:
> 
> > > I thought Opera came as a self-installing
> > > package (you just uncompress it and run install.sh).
> >
> > I think it came as a Slackware package and I just typed installpkg Opera.
> > Maybe you are thinking of Ted?
> >
> I looked all over for a .tgz package for Opera on the web, and all I could
> find was one at a site that was in Turkish.  I decided not to download it,

There you have the problem. If you do not want to compile yourself, you
need to source from many sources, e.g. Debian, Slackware, Redhat or
Suse.