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Sindi Keesan wrote:
>
> What did you have to install (libraries?) to get Opera 7.21 
> to work?
> 
> We had a discussion last winter about upgrading libraries and 
> at the time I could not figure out what was involved.

I can't speak for Opera 7.21 (never tried it), but 
recent binaries often specify glibc 2.2 or better 
(BL2 has 2.1).  Some even require 2.3.  

I've installed glibc 2.2 on my own system (using two 
Slackware 8.1 packages) in order to run Firebird 0.5 
and xpdf 1.01.  It went very smoothly:
----------------------------------------
installpkg glibc-solibs-2.2.5-i386-2.tgz
installpkg cxxlibs-6.2.1-i386-1.tgz
----------------------------------------

If you need glibc 2.3, you could probably do the same 
thing with the equivalent Slackware 9 packages.

Cheers,
Steven