Opera 9.0 on Suse 10.1 install question

nemy · 06-26-2006, 11:23 PM

Hello folks. Not sure what occurred but I used the Zen installer to install Opera 9. Everything went well, an icon was created in the web browers folder, a desktop icon installed but neither work. From terminal and either as user or root opera still will not open. Any suggestions or should I just install as usual and forget about using zen?

wini_g · 06-27-2006, 07:45 PM

Id say forget Zen & just use rpm directly "rpm --i" or open a terminal & enter opera as command & see what the error is .. .

nemy · 06-28-2006, 03:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wini_g

Id say forget Zen & just use rpm directly "rpm --i" or open a terminal & enter opera as command & see what the error is .. .

Yah, figured that would be best. Cannot currently produce the error from terminal as that computer is at home and I'm on the road. I will post it later whether I fix it or not. Thanks for the advice.

nemy · 07-01-2006, 10:02 AM

pete@linux:~> opera
The Opera binary is not located at "/home/pete/lib/opera/8.54-20060330.6/opera".
Please modify the wrapper script at "/home/pete/bin/opera".
pete@linux:~>

tritium · 07-01-2006, 10:45 AM

There is also Opera 8.54 on your pc, so remove Opera via yast software management.
And than download Opera 9.x from opera.com, the suse 10.1 rpm.
Install Opera with :
#rpm -ivh opera....
#SuSEconfig

nemy · 07-01-2006, 10:34 PM

Thanks for the replies. I didn't notice until pointed out that opera 8.54 was pre-installed. I should read the error output

. I'm obviously a newb to Suse and am only a recent convert to Linux (Vector was my first install). I became familiar with Slapt and hence my lack of knowledge using rpm. It seems pretty straight forward. So, using Yast I searched in software management for opera, found it, unchecked it and then noticed that it would be uninstalling Opera 9, not 8.54. Further searching in Yast yielded not other references to opera that I could find. However, even after uninstalling 9 with yast and reinstalling using rpm -ivh opera.{tab}i still get the same error as above. I read the man for rpm but nothing stood out that would help me find and then remove 8.54. Is there further reference material to help out, or any suggestions as to what i missed?? Thanks for any help.

tritium · 07-02-2006, 04:13 AM

Check with:

Code:

$ rpm -q opera

which version there on your pc.

remove opera with:

Code:

# rpm -e opera..

Download this time the "opera static" and not the "shared" version.
ftp://ftp.uit.no/pub/www/opera/linux...qt.i386-en.rpm

Install opera

Code:

# rpm -ivh opera-9.0-20060616.1-static-qt.i386-en.rpm

than run SuSEconfig

Code:

# SuSEconfig