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I downloaded the 9.27 version of Opera and tried to install.  Its asking for 
a different dependency, "libSM.so.6".  I will have to try running the way 
Sindi does.
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> On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, Sindi wrote: 
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> > Managed to download Opera 9.64 and then 9.63. Install.sh for each put 
> > the Opera binary in the wrong place for both versions. Didn't get a 
> > good install for either. 
> 
> 
> You don't need to install. If you already did, you can delete any 
> directories with opera in their name (/usr/share/opera, etc.). 
> rm -r opera* 
> 
> Unpack opera to / (tar -zxvf opera*.tar.gz) To run opera, cd /opera* (fill 
> in the correct version name), then type opera, which is a wrapper script 
> that tells opera where to find things (including java and adobe pdf 
> reader, which we don't have) and runs the actual binary 
> /opera*/usr/lib/opera*/9*, about 15MB. 
> 
> less /opera*/opera lets you read the script. 
> 
> Opera might boot faster with a shorter wrapper script - anyone want to try 
> fixing it? 
> 
> Installation would copy /opera*/usr to /usr. The wrapper script probably 
> gets put some place on the path. I don't have it installed. 
> 
> This way you can try several versions from their own directories. 
> While they are running, type 'top' in another terminal to compare memory 
> usage. I found 8.54 used least, then 9.2*, then 9.5 and 9.6. 
> 
> Have you also tried lynx2 in graphical mode? It is faster, but does not 
> handle a lot of javascript. Steven's version for X (28) is the last 
> javascript version before they dropped support for it. 
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