I got my new browser Opera in /usr/local/opera/
When i write just >opera & the system can not find the program.
I have to go all the way into the directory /usr/local/opera/ and write ./opera for it to start...

Is there an easier way?? How can I make it start just by writing >opera & ??

Also, do you know how i can edit my menu (using debian and fluxbox) (The main menu Apps>Editors and so on).

Thx!!

ln -s /usr/local/opera/opera /usr/local/bin/opera
or add /usr/local/opera to your path

If you have a ~/.fluxbox/menu, you can edit that directly (it's a pretty simple xml-ish structure).
If not, try running fluxbox-generate_menu to build a semi-decent menu which you can then modify.
What I find works best for me is editing a copy of fluxbox-generate_menu to add applications not included in the original script, and run that to update the menu.

Well, usr/local/opera/opera will work, you could add a symlink from /usr/bin to the program with

cd /usr/bin
ln -s /usr/local/opera/opera opera

or you could add /usr/local/opera to your path.

I'd recommend the symlink.

ok, one more question. I always see that people are talkong about the 'PATH'... im new to linux and wondering how to access this path?

Thx!

i also get this error after adding opera link to my bin dir:

The Opera binary is not located at "./bin/opera".
Please modify the wrapper script at "/usr/bin/opera".
[1]+ Exit 1 opera


Whots wrong?

Thx!

you don't really "access" it directly, if you're thinking it's a file or something. $PATH is an environmental variable whose value is a string of paths which are searched whenever you issue a command.
"echo $PATH" wil tell you which directories are in your current path.
You can add paths to the $PATH variable by exporting them from ~/.bash_profile like so:
export PATH=$PATH:/new/path:/another/new/path
The paths generally lead to a "bin" directory, and are separated by colons.
Make sure you include $PATH in your export line so you don't overwrite the current $PATH

Okay...so you have an issue that isn't directly related to your path. Opera apparently requires that it's run from within the opera directory (probably can't find some required files otherwise).

/usr/local/opera/opera must be a script rather than a binary. Try opening it in a text editor and see if you can make any sense of it. There should be something related to paths near the begininning of the script.

Yea, i found this in the script file:



#!/bin/sh

# Use this if you don't want to install Opera to any special location,
# but execute it from the extracted package or current location.

# Location of the Opera binaries
OPERA_BINARYDIR=./bin

if test ! -f "${OPERA_BINARYDIR}/opera"; then
echo "The O.............................

I was thinking i maybe need to edit the ./bin in OPERA_BINARYDIR but in not sure what to change to

Probably change it to /usr/local/opera
unless there's a /usr/local/opera/bin