I have downloaded opera
file:/mnt/winC/Driver/Linux/opera-7.11-20030515.3-shared-qt.i386.tar.gz

i don't know how to run & start the browser . please help..
i have unzipped the .gz file like this

file:/mnt/winC/Driver/Linux/opera-7.11-20030515.3-shared-qt.i386/bin
file:/mnt/winC/Driver/Linux/opera-7.11-20030515.3-shared-qt.i386/config
file:/mnt/winC/Driver/Linux/opera-7.11-20030515.3-shared-qt.i386/help
file:/mnt/winC/Driver/Linux/opera-7.11-20030515.3-shared-qt.i386/images
file:/mnt/winC/Driver/Linux/opera-7.11-20030515.3-shared-qt.i386/ini
file:/mnt/winC/Driver/Linux/opera-7.11-20030515.3-shared-qt.i386/java
file:/mnt/winC/Driver/Linux/opera-7.11-20030515.3-shared-qt.i386/javascript
file:/mnt/winC/Driver/Linux/opera-7.11-20030515.3-shared-qt.i386/lib
file:/mnt/winC/Driver/Linux/opera-7.11-20030515.3-shared-qt.i386/locale
file:/mnt/winC/Driver/Linux/opera-7.11-20030515.3-shared-qt.i386/man
file:/mnt/winC/Driver/Linux/opera-7.11-20030515.3-shared-qt.i386/plugins
file:/mnt/winC/Driver/Linux/opera-7.11-20030515.3-shared-qt.i386/skin
file:/mnt/winC/Driver/Linux/opera-7.11-20030515.3-shared-qt.i386/styles
file:/mnt/winC/Driver/Linux/opera-7.11-20030515.3-shared-qt.i386/bugreport
file:/mnt/winC/Driver/Linux/opera-7.11-20030515.3-shared-qt.i386/chartables.bin
file:/mnt/winC/Driver/Linux/opera-7.11-20030515.3-shared-qt.i386/hhd.ssr
file:/mnt/winC/Driver/Linux/opera-7.11-20030515.3-shared-qt.i386/install.sh
file:/mnt/winC/Driver/Linux/opera-7.11-20030515.3-shared-qt.i386/license
file:/mnt/winC/Driver/Linux/opera-7.11-20030515.3-shared-qt.i386/lngcode.txt
file:/mnt/winC/Driver/Linux/opera-7.11-20030515.3-shared-qt.i386/opera
file:/mnt/winC/Driver/Linux/opera-7.11-20030515.3-shared-qt.i386/opera6.adr
file:/mnt/winC/Driver/Linux/opera-7.11-20030515.3-shared-qt.i386/search.ini


file:/mnt/winC/Driver/Linux/opera-7.11-20030515.3-shared-qt.i386/bin/opera 5.3 MB Executable

cd to the directory where you have the unpacked files.
run ./install.sh

Then you should be able to start opera from the command line.
#opera

I downloaded the static file for opera 7.11, ran the
installation and I can fire up opera from the kde menu.
The problem I am having is that whenever I open the
washpost.com page, the front page photo is shifted all
the way to the left of the screen and all that can be
seen is horizontal lines. I have played with all the
set ups to see if it is somethinh I need to adjust but
it has not helped. All I can think now is that since I
am using the static file and do not have java running,
maybe that is my problem. Anybody else has seen this?

Any other web page I have visited appears to be ok,
except the washpost.com page. What is going on?

I tried the shared version but did not work for me.

what distro? did you try the rpm first?