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[<keesan2 AT cyberspace.org>]

I took at look at the package for opera and you are right, this is
not a real slackware package.  I just got a list of all the files
in a directory with a very long name starting with opera.

So then I tried doing sh install.sh from the directory where
that script was and it tried to install opera to several other
directories and I got a very large number of error messages because,
as I discovered, I have only 7M free on this hard drive which is
not enough room to install to as Opera takes up about 12M.
(I am keeping all the .tgz packages and I only have 126M total).
If the installation program were to move instead of copy files
this might have worked.  Total free space needed for installation
seems to be about 5M (tar.gz) plus 2x12M = 30M after which you 
can remove 12M of it (or maybe it removes itself).  

I may experiment with deleting a lot of the gifs as I do not
use any of the buttons.

I am happy running Opera from where installpkg uncompressed it to.  I have
not looked at the doc or help files anyway, which is what was supposed to
be somewhere else.  Plugins may also want to be somewhere else.  On the
next Linux computer I will do this 'correctly' but I don't have the space
on this one. 

There is one thing that did not quite work.

In this large directory I found unicode.dat, which Opera keeps telling
me it cannot find - where should this be moved to so that Opera can
find it?

Anyway, I have now accidentally found a way to install Opera so that
it mostly works to a computer without enough free space for the
usual installation.  I could probably move files around manually
to get everything into the proper directories.  

I am hoping Neo Sze Wee will explain how to install without isntallpkg.

Sindi Keesan


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