I have downloaded the latest Opera browser and placed it in a folder called 'Opera'
It was tarball. I expanded it correctly.

I have tried in vain to install it.

I don't understand the problem. Could you help me? I logged in as a root user and changed into the 'Opera' folder.

It expanded beautifully. The following shows you all the files.
The name of the downloaded file is --> opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en.tar.gz

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[root@h27n2fls301o1037 Opera]# tar -xvzf opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en.tar.gz

opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/locale/
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/locale/en/
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/locale/en/search.ini
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/locale/en/lngcode.txt
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/locale/en/default.adr
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/locale/english.lng
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/help/
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/help/background.png
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/help/help.css
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/help/license.txt
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/help/advertising.html
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/help/dialogs.html
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/help/filetypes.html
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/help/fonts.html
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/help/glossary.html
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/help/history.html
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/help/index.html
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/help/keyboard.html
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/help/languages.html
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/help/m2.html
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/help/mouse.html
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/help/multimedia.html
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/help/network.html
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/help/page.html
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/help/paths.html
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/help/personal.html
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/help/privacy.html
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/help/search.html
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/help/security.html
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/help/sounds.html
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/help/start.html
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/help/toc.html
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/help/toolbars.html
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/help/windows.html
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/help/hotlist.html
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/help/input.html
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/help/layout.html
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/help/mail.html
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/help/menus.html
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/help/preferences.html
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/help/skin.html
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/help/chat.html
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/help/panels.html
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/LICENSE
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/opera6.adr
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/lngcode.txt
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/search.ini
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/config/
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/config/opera6rc
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/config/opera6rc.fixed
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/bin/
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/bin/opera
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/bin/works
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/lib/
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/lib/spellcheck.so
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/lib/missingsyms.so
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/ini/
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/ini/spellcheck.ini
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/ini/dialog.ini
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/ini/fastforward.ini
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/ini/standard_menu.ini
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/ini/standard_mouse.ini
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/ini/standard_keyboard.ini
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/ini/standard_toolbar.ini
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/ini/unix_keyboard.ini
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/ini/filehandler.ini
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/ini/pluginpath.ini
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/html40_entities.dtd
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/java/
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/java/opera.jar
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/bugreport
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/man/
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/man/opera.1
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/images/
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/images/background.gif
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/images/blank.gif
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/images/drive.gif
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/images/file.gif
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/images/folder.gif
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/images/link.gif
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/images/operabanner.png
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/images/shared.gif
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/images/splash.png
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/images/startup1.png
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/images/startup2.png
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/images/opera.xpm
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/images/opera_16x16.png
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/images/opera_22x22.png
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/images/opera_32x32.png
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/images/opera_48x48.png
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/styles/
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/styles/about.css
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/styles/cache.css
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/styles/csr.css
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/styles/dir.css
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/styles/drives.css
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/styles/email.css
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/styles/history.css
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/styles/im.css
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/styles/info.css
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/styles/mime.css
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/styles/mimehead.css
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/styles/opf.css
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/styles/plugins.css
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/styles/wml.css
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/styles/user/
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/styles/user/accessibility.css
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/styles/user/contrastbw.css
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/styles/user/contrastwb.css
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/styles/user/debugwithoutline.css
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/styles/user/disabletables.css
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/styles/user/hidecertainsizes.css
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/styles/user/hidenonlinkimages.css
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/styles/user/imageandlinkonly.css
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/styles/user/nostalgia.css
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/styles/user/showstructure.css
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/styles/user/textonly.css
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/styles/user/userstyle.ini
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/hhd.ssr
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/skin/
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/skin/standard_skin.zip
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/skin/windows_skin.zip
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/chartables.bin
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/javascript/
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/javascript/jsconsole.html
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/plugins/
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/plugins/operamotifwrapper-1
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/plugins/operamotifwrapper-2
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/plugins/operamotifwrapper-3
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/plugins/operaplugincleaner
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/plugins/libnpp.so
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/opera
opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/install.sh
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In order to install I wrote the following and pressed enter.

[root@h27n2fls301o1037 Opera]# opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/install.sh


I got the following message.

Files will be installed as follows:
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Wrapper Script : /usr/bin
Binaries : /usr/lib/opera/7.54-20040803.5
Plugins : /usr/lib/opera/plugins
Shared files : /usr/share/opera
Documentation : /usr/share/doc/opera
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Is this correct [ y,n,c | yes,no,cancel ] ?




I just accepted and pressed the y key and pressed enter. Afterwards, I got the following message.


cp: cannot stat `bin/opera': No such file or directory
chmod: cannot access `/usr/lib/opera/7.54-20040803.5/opera': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `LICENSE': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `help/*': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `config/*': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `images/*': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `styles/*': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `styles/user/*': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `hhd.ssr': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `chartables.bin': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `opera6.adr': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `java/opera.jar': No such file or directory
This package does not support Netscape Realplayer Plug-in.
This package does not contain support for Netscape Plug-ins.

System wide configuration files:
/etc/opera6rc
/etc/opera6rc.fixed
cannot be prefixed
Do you want to install them [ y,n | yes,no ] ?

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I just accepted and pressed the y key and pressed enter. Then I got the following message.

cp: cannot stat `config/opera6rc': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `config/opera6rc.fixed': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `/usr/share/opera/images/opera.xpm': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `/usr/share/opera/images/opera.xpm': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `/usr/share/opera/images/opera.xpm': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `/usr/share/opera/images/opera_32x32.png': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `/usr/share/opera/images/opera_16x16.png': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `/usr/share/opera/images/opera_48x48.png': No such file or directory
[root@h27n2fls301o1037 Opera]#


What is the problem? Please help me.

You need to be in the same directory as install.sh when you run it.

Try that.

You are on the right track.

I moved into that directory. The following shows:

root@h27n2fls301o1037 Opera]# cd opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en/
[root@h27n2fls301o1037 opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en]#

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Afterwards I wrote the install command and pressed enter.
[root@h27n2fls301o1037 opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en]# ./install.sh

Files will be installed as follows:
-----------------------------------------------------------
Wrapper Script : /usr/bin
Binaries : /usr/lib/opera/7.54-20040803.5
Plugins : /usr/lib/opera/plugins
Shared files : /usr/share/opera
Documentation : /usr/share/doc/opera
-----------------------------------------------------------
Is this correct [ y,n,c | yes,no,cancel ] ?




I just wrote y and pressed enter and got the following message:

System wide configuration files:
/etc/opera6rc
/etc/opera6rc.fixed
cannot be prefixed
Do you want to install them [ y,n | yes,no ] ?


I just wrote y and pressed enter and got the following message. Nothing has happened. It just accepted the command.


[root@h27n2fls301o1037 opera-7.54-20040803.5-shared-qt.i386-en]#

What shall I do now? How do I install the Opera browser? Please help me.

Finally I was succeded. Now it is working. I went into the 'bin' subfolder. It is inside the 'Opera' folder. I found the correct file there and double clicked it.

It is working.