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Opera 6 will run in monochrome or 16 colors but I don't think 8 or 9 will. 
Opera 7 has an annoying ad banner which wastes memory.

I could run Opera 8.54 in 24MB memory and it used 40%, while 7 and 9 both 
used 60% and swapped to hard disk a lot when memory was full.
Set the memory cache low, and exit one web page before opening another, 
and browse with images turned off and right click to 'reload' when needed.
I could even use Opera in 16MB if careful.

Steven's links2 is for the BL3 setup and therefore will need libc5 and the 
BL3 libX11.

To run Opera 8 or 9 in BL2, get
http://keesan.freeshell.org/bl/operalib.tgz
This is the very minimum of libraries needed for Opera.

(I don't recall what 7 needed but it wastes too much memory.)

installpkg operalib.tgz
ldconfig to link the new libraries (or it may run automatically, I forget)

cd /
Download opera*8.54*.tar.gz
tar -zxvf opera*.tar.gz
You don't need to run install.sh, just cd to opera* and type opera
which is a wrapper script that runs the program.  (There is an opera 
binary that won't work directly in a subdirectory).

To remove
cd /
rm -r opera*8.54*  (or just opera, if you have only one version)

This is an easy way to keep several versions separate while testing.

You will need more colors to run Opera 8.  I suggest using BL3 instead, 
which comes with Xvesa, a standard video driver that provides 24-bit color 
with most video cards (not neomagic but I have a solution for that).

Opera 6 should work with your current libraries and 16 colors and 32MB 
memory but probably at fewer websites than 8.  There are still lots of 
sites that don't work with Opera.  AOL webmail works with 8 not 9.

Links2 has very little javascript support so we are stuck with Opera.

I compiled links2 for svgalib with glibc 2.2.5 (Slackware 8.1) which 
may also work with the operalib.tgz libraries.  See blfiles.htm at my site 
for explanations and ask questions.  svgalib uses somewhat less memory 
than X.  What video chip or card do you have?  I posted a default that 
covers most common chips and also chip-specific solibs.

Sindi Keesan

On Fri, 20 Feb 2009, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:
> Opera package is a tar.gz archive: I supposed I had to follow the
> instructions in Bl site for BL3, i.e. unpack, then cd to the opera directory
> and execute install.sh.

It does not need to be installed to run.

> Is that correct? In this case how to remove the package?
There is an uninstall some place in the directory it unpacks to.

> Thank you.
> Regards
> Giuseppe
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
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> To: <baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 8:47 PM
> Subject: Re: [BL] BL2 and opera
>
>
> > Message from Steven
> > ===================
> > > Giuseppe wrote:
> > >
> > > I would try Opera 8: what is the command in case I
> > > need to remove the tar package when installed?
> >
> > If you use pkgtool to install the package, you
> > will be able to use pkgtool to uninstall it.
> > To run pkgtool, execute:
> > -------
> > pkgtool
> > -------
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Steven
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