Opera from slackbuild doesn't work

klee12 · 09-10-2009, 01:25 PM

Hello,

I'm running Slackware 13.0 and tried to install Opera. I downloaded the 32 bit version and built and installed it ... no compilation or installation errors. When I run it (/usr/bin/opera) I got the following error message

/usr/lib/opera-9.64/opera: error while loading shared libraries: libqt-mt.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I grepped MANIFEST for libqt-mt.so.3 and couldn't find it. I searched slackbuild and couldn't find it.

Thanks in advance for your help

klee12

cwizardone · 09-10-2009, 01:42 PM

This may or may not have anything to do with it, but....
perhaps the source the link at slackbuilds.org points you to, is for the Slackware 12.2 version?

I say this because, if you were to download Opera 10, from the link on their main page,

http://www.opera.com

it will give you a qt3 version as they don't, yet, show an option for Slackware 13, which runs, I believe, qt4.

You might try going to this page,

http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/

and follow the links to the download page for the latest version. I running it and haven't had any problems. The 32 bit version can be found here,

http://snapshot.opera.com/unix/snaps...9/intel-linux/

Be sure and download a qt4 version.
I hope that helps.
BTW, these are binary packages. No compiling necessary.

To install, download to whatever directory/folder you like.
Unpack it using, for example,

tar -xvzf opera-10.10-4609.gcc4-qt4.i386.tar.gz

Then "cd" to, opera-10.10-4609.gcc4-qt4.i386

Change to root by running the "su" command and entering your password.

Once done, at the command prompt type, ./install.sh

Say yes to the few questions and you're done.

Exit as root and fire up Opera as user.
Works every time for me.
Good luck.

bassmadrigal · 09-10-2009, 02:00 PM

Or you can go into the kde3-compat directory in the extra/ folder on the cd/dvd and install qt3. qt3 may be needed for other applications as well, so it probably wouldn't hurt and they can co-exist peacefully. Although it may be interesting to give opera running qt4 a go.

stinkytaco · 09-10-2009, 02:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bassmadrigal

Or you can go into the kde3-compat directory in the extra/ folder on the cd/dvd and install qt3. qt3 may be needed for other applications as well, so it probably wouldn't hurt and they can co-exist peacefully. Although it may be interesting to give opera running qt4 a go.

This is the correct answer. I was able to install Opera only after installing qt3. I wasn't able to get it to work with qt4 at all.

klee12 · 09-10-2009, 02:21 PM

Thanks for the replies.

I downloaded and copied to disk the first 3 CDs of the slackware 13.0 distribution, and couldn't find the extra directory.

find copy_of_CDx -name extra

where copy_of_CDx, with x = 1,2,3 is a copy of one of the CDs. I also searched for qt3kde-compat with no luck.

I didn't look in CDs 4,5 and 6 because I thought they were just the sources of the stuff in CD1,2 and 3.k

klee12

cwizardone · 09-10-2009, 02:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by stinkytaco

This is the correct answer. I was able to install Opera only after installing qt3. I wasn't able to get it to work with qt4 at all.

As mentioned above, if you download a qt4 version of Opera you shouldn't have any problems and qt3 isn't needed.

jkirchner · 09-10-2009, 02:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bassmadrigal

Or you can go into the kde3-compat directory in the extra/ folder on the cd/dvd and install qt3. qt3 may be needed for other applications as well, so it probably wouldn't hurt and they can co-exist peacefully. Although it may be interesting to give opera running qt4 a go.

This method worked for me as well. As soon as I had the kde3-compat stuff installed Opera runs like it should.

stinkytaco · 09-10-2009, 03:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cwizardone

As mentioned above, if you download a qt4 version of Opera you shouldn't have any problems and qt3 isn't needed.

I see now that there is a qt4 version on slackbuilds. That must be relativly new. I installed that 9.64 version that was there a week ago. Thanks for the heads up.

For the OPs reference:

http://slackbuilds.org/repository/13.0/network/opera/

klee12 · 09-10-2009, 03:26 PM

Thanks everyone.

The missing package was on disk 4, which I thought contained only sources. I installed the compatibility library and it worked.

klee12

bassmadrigal · 09-10-2009, 05:50 PM

Just an FYI, you can browse the directories online. If you had only done discs 1-3, you could've gone online to one of the many slackware mirrors and downloaded just that one file and installed it.