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On Thu, 7 Jun 2007 baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> Message from Steven
> -------------------
>
> I've just installed Opera 8.52 on BL 3.50
> and it works fine.  The instructions given
> for 3.40 still work for 3.50:
> ---------------------------------------
> http://www.basiclinux.com.ru/opera.html
> ---------------------------------------
>
> Here's what I did:

> install glibc-solibs-2.3.1 package

Is there some reason 2.2.5 would not work as well?

This is a large package.  Could you check whether just the libraries 
listed by ldd opera are adequate?  libc libm ld-linux libpthread libdl 
(and libnss_dns libresolv to go online).  That was all I needed in 3.40 
other than X libs and for Opera 8 also libz.  I just copied them over and 
symlinked.  Is there something else I should do to install them correctly 
so that they will recognize libX11.so (static), which needs libc.so.6? 
Do I need the glibc ldconfig for instance?

> install misc-libs package

Now at the BL site, 863KB.  3 min download.  I see libz.so.1.1.4 in there 
but nothing else that looks relevant to opera/libX11.  libgcc_s jpeg png 
(3 and 2) tiff freetype stdc++

I already installed libz, which seems unrelated to the libX11 problem.

> install x-libs package
Do you really need all of it or just libXext, libICE and libSM?

> unpack opera-8.52-static-qt.i386 package

> execute install.sh
I run it from the directory I unpacked to, without installation, in BL3.40.
If you do install it, you can make space by deleting the directory it 
unpacked to.

> answer "yes" for everything
> execute startx
> click on xterm
> execute opera

> The only real issue is that Opera 8 is very
> hard to find.  Just about everyone has moved
> to Opera 9.  Perhaps Opera 9 works too?
It did not work for me - needed a later glibc, I think.

> Maybe, maybe not.  Anybody care to try it?
> What I can say for sure is that Opera 8.52
> works as specified on BL 3.50.  If Opera 9
> does not work, then I will make the Opera 8
> package available at the BasicLinux site.

Searched on Opera 8 download from the main page, and then Where can I find 
old versions of Opera. 
http://arc.opera.com/pub/opera/
linux
8.52  (or another version)

(They go back to version 5.00 from 2002, through 8.54 for linux.)
final
en
i386
static (for qt, not for libc)

Four choices: rpm, tar.bz2, tar.gz, deb

I have not downloaded 8.54 and checked which glibc is needed.  They used 
to offer various rpms for different Redhats presumably with different 
glibc dependencies, but the one provided for SW81 I think required a later 
glibc than SW81 comes with.

I am using 8.52.

Thanks for checking this out.  I wonder what I am missing that libX11.so.6 
needs to work with the X libraries.
Sindi

> Cheers,
> Steven