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[David Moberg <davidjmoberg AT gmail.com>]

sindi keesan wrote:
>
> Why .deb?

For some reason, the Opera website allowed me to choose a
generic 'static' .deb and then I was offered a check box which
said to pack the deb into a tgz, or something like that. I checked
it and got a semi-static tgz package, just like yours.

> I just downloaded the generic static QT 8.51 version
> which unpacked itself to an /opera-8.51... directory.  Did your version
> install properly?

It's sitting in /mnt/opera... I don't have enough space to install it
here, and it runs just fine from its present location, anyway.

> I have Opera working, now that you pointed out it needed more libraries
> than shown by ldd.
>
> BL3.32 already had host.conf - I will check BL3.40 for it.

I may have imagined that this was necessary.

> I now also have a new ldd based on libc.6, but doubt it is
> needed for opera.

ldd is just a script and the bl3 ldd seems to work with glibc.

> Installing the BL3 icewm package provides all the needed X libraries.

I installed some glibc2 x11 libraries to /lib and ran X without a window
manager. It is interesting that it works with a libc5 library.

> BL2 zgv also needs libvgagl.  David compiled a static zgv for
> use with the 1-floppy USB-storage 2.4.31-kernel linux.

That 'static zgv' requires uclibc and svgalib.

David