Has anyone installed Opera in Slack?

Wonderer · 11-10-2003, 10:11 AM

Hi

I use Opera [mainly] when I am in windows. I have installed Firebird on Slack 9.0 which works fine.

I was wondering if anyone has installed Opera?
How is the isntallaion done? Which package is used?

http://www.opera.com/download/index.dml?platform=linux

Tnx

fasta · 11-10-2003, 10:37 AM

I am going to install right now.
I'll let u know.

djbanaan · 11-10-2003, 10:38 AM

You can use the QT static RPM. Convert it to a slackpack with rpm2tgz and then install it with installpkg. Works wonderfully on my box.

fasta · 11-10-2003, 10:47 AM

Great hint !

djbanaan · 11-10-2003, 10:50 AM

rpm2tgz is great. You could of course simply install the RPM, but this way you keep your system nice and clean, using the wonderful Slackware packaging system.

Fascistchicken · 11-10-2003, 11:13 AM

i use it & have no problems
i used the static tar.gz

Wonderer · 11-10-2003, 11:23 AM

Tnx guys. I am going to try it.

Cheers

Mark Lee · 11-11-2003, 04:40 AM

I loaded the static tar.gz as well, no problems. I use Firebird about 70% of the time and Opera 30%. I like Thunderbird as well, and obviously it fits right in with Slack and Firebird.

Mark

LSD · 11-11-2003, 05:41 AM

Yeah, don't bother with the RPMs on Slack, just download the .tar.gz, unpack it to a temporary directory and run the provided install.sh. That'll set everything up for you, even GNOME/KDE menu icons.