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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Thu, 2 Feb 2006, James Miller wrote:

> On Thu, 2 Feb 2006, sindi keesan wrote:
>
> > Should I post a package of these libraries for use with Opera in BL3?
> >
> > (There are also unrelated lib*.so.2 libraries from BL3:  libext2fx,
> > libtermcap, libcom_err.)
> >
> > Installing the BL3 icewm package provides all the needed X libraries.
> >
> > Is JP's links2 for BL2/svgalib ssl-capable?  If so, I will also get that
> > working because my friend really likes using the arrow keys to navigate in
> > links, and 'q a TAB' are too much for him in Opera.
>
> Please _do_ put together a package of needed libs for running Opera in
> BL3, along with instructions for installing it.  One thing BL3 will
> definitely need in order to be appealing to many these days is a
> full-fledged graphical browser.  Thanks for puzzling out how to run one.

I set this up without symlinks for the libraries, just used the actual 
library with the name of what was the symlink (libc.so.6 rather than 
something with 2.2.25 in it).  Is this acceptable?  I don't know how to 
make packages with scripts using busybox pkg, I just used tar, and it came 
out that way.

Just those two additional libraries were needed (libresolv, libnss_dns) in 
addition to what ldd revealed for opera.  We got our friend using links2 
and opera and all went well except that he forgot his password for the 
site he needed opera for (he had just changed it) and the local mail 
account went down within an hour before we went over there to help him.

He would like to be able to type one letter to get straight into mail. 
But he does not want opera to start with his home page, but rather the 
page he was on when he exited.  Maybe Opera has a single-letter way to get 
to the home page.

My partner wants to put a duplicate of this setup on his laptop on a 40GB 
drive.  He can keep photos on most of it, he says.


> As for JP's links2, he did compile a version that was ssl-capable.
> Statically compiled, IIRC.  I also seem to recall it was labelled "ssl"
Thanks.  Where is the static version?  What I have has lots of 
dependencies.  Maybe it is a newer version from delilinux.

> somewhere.  But this may not solve your friend's problem: I tried this
> version of links2 with my bank and it wouldn't work because the website
> was detecting browsers by name and wouldn't let a browser without the
> proper name interact with the secure server.  You may run into the same
> problem: browser is capable, but it is disallowed because not used/known
> widely enough.
>
> James
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