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  • Subject: Re: [BL] considering BL for laptop: questions
  • Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 11:01:57 -0500 (CDT)

On Sat, 15 Mar 2008, Sindi wrote:

Opera works fine for me on this setup. I don't even bother with a swap
file (but I don't run anything else at the same time, and I close tabs).
With 16MB I need a swap file or partition.

I may well be using (an)other program(s) while using Opera, so I plan on
setting up a swap partition. If I use BL for this I'll have plenty of HD
space for it.

Presumably you first started X.

Is it possible to run Opera without first starting X?

There are two ways to run opera. You can unpackage it in / and then cd
opera* and run from the wrapper script (named opera) by typing ./opera,
or you can install it by cd'ing to opera* and typing install.sh, then
after that just type opera from anywhere. If you did not run
install.sh, you may get a message about a wrapper script unless you run
it from opera* directory. Which of these methods did you use?

I ran install.sh, like Steven's directions indicate. Anywhere I type
"opera" after having rebooted the machine, I get the complaint about the
wrapper script. As I mentioned, immediately after installing Opera in this
fashion and before rebooting, I did not get that wrapper script error when
issuing the command "opera" from anywhere on the system, and Opera started
as expected. This is a very strange issue and needs some looking into for
the sake of newbies who may want Opera on their BL system. I should
mention that the version of Opera concerned is 9.23.

Anyway, I've resolved the wrapper script problem by simply renaming the
binary the installation routine placed in /usr/bin to opera.old and
copying over to /usr/bin the binary located in the unpackaged opera
installation directory. Now that I've done that, I can issue "opera" from
anywhere on the system and the browser starts fine (with just a non-fatal
complaint in the terminal about locales or something).

The first method did not work for me as user with one version of opera,
but it did as root.

I can operate as root on this system, though for web browsing it would be
good to set up an unpriviledged user, wouldn't it? Do I understand
correctly that you never managed to get Opera running on any BL3 system as
user? That could pose problems for me.

BL3 has only a few Latin-alphabet fonts. You could probably select a
few other fonts to add but it is easier to do whole packages.

Any idea which packages?

Yes to ps (see archives). Why do you want pdf instead of rtf?

Thanks for the info. pdf because it preserves formatting better.

A web search says it works with gs as ljet4. Same as my HP Laserjet 5L
and 6L. 300 dpi. I compiled gs 8.54 with this driver and with
deskjet as the default device (deskjet will also work with my laser
printers and probably with yours).

You compiled with deskjet or laserjet? I did see ljet4 associated with
this printer in my web searches and, I believe, as I went about testing
this printer on my Ubuntu desktop.

My gs does not support x11 as a device. This keeps it smaller. It only
needs the one binary (2.7MB with a few devices including those needed by
svp pdf viewer, a few printers, ps2pdf; 2.9 with default devices) and
minimal fonts (not the 2-3GB package unless you want to print with a
variety of fonts). The Windows gs is 17MB download. I did not compile
in Chinese support. GS8.60 is about twice the size. I have not needed
it. The Slackware 7 gs does not support some newer pdf formats.

Not sure what "gs does not support x11 as a device" means. Does that mean
you can't print from any program that runs under X? That would be a
serious limitation for me. Please clarify so that I'll know whether your
package might work for me. (btw, I think you meant 2-3MB rather than
2-3GB, correct?)

Write us for details on printer repair using bike inner tubes and rubber
rejuvenator).

My printer seems to be in GWO but I will be in touch later off-list about
printer repair in general and perhaps some other projects.

You would need to get this script working in Abiword and Opera to print
directly from them. See the archives. Much easier than using lpr
(which only works for user not root).

I'll begin searching the archive on this issue. Do I understand correctly
that the script has been made to work with those two programs? Or would I
be breaking new ground here?

You probably need more ghostscript fonts. You can use the Abiword fonts
for English by making a symlink from /usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts
to /usr/local/AbiSuite/fonts (which will also work for xpdf and
pdftopbm).

Would that be the gsfonts package I found in Slack4? Are those only for
printing, or does X use them as well? Thanks for the tip about symlinking
those directories--that may come in handy.

James




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