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  • Subject: Re: [BL] problems installing Opera 9.63, 9.64, 9.27
  • Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 03:57:27 +0000

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:
>
> > 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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