opera in Slackware
 

hi

so -
i having trouble installing opera in slackware

it is just way - way why way ?

why way ?

it makwees no sence to have thinkgs like this -
tried deb2packare
tried slackbuilds - still cant do those -
and

why

wh y id this like this -

epic frustration - for nothing -

just make a installedr that works - it simply

ok so lets try i fine
you say its simple ans easy - it isnt

src2opackwafgd

i it beyond belkiedg 0
that
someone cant make a slackware package for opera -

it unreal - that actiaLLY WORKS


OK SO now that in in windows and no t usioing lynx as the browser -

cux a i aint got no browser - thats why im adking
so
maybe i will try to convery a rpm to tgz instead -
now that the link is availiable in lynx

so now i just have to try to rpm2tgz -
which never seems to work

i can never get packages to convert -
anuy war

dude
just
make a packeage
that installs - simple

no i dont need any help
i just cant believe that - every GNU install insusists on fucking up the installers ... insavw

try again after you sobered up?

Linux abstract poetry at its finest. 10/10, would read again.

I run Opera when Firefox has a problem. I download Opera's package. It works.

I downloaded the rpm from their site. I did an rpm2tgz then did an installpkg on that file. Everything worked fine.

Don't try to run the rpm directly. For some reason it doesn't work.

deb2tgz is not working properly for me lately. Seems I can just use ark to expand it and run the binary but I don't like doing it that way. Can't find an rpm. The slackbuild I have installed is old and complains that it is out of date.
Anyway, I used sbopkg to compile and install. Works well in spite of being out of date

It is possible that the deb package has its data compressed using xz. If so, the original deb2tgz doesn't support that. However, someone forked the original project and has added support for different compression formats. The github is here. It doesn't have a Slackware package available, but it does have a SlackBuild to quickly package the program into a Slackware package.

As an alternative to getting opera, you could use ruario's latest-opera script.

Just a suggestion. Next time try to ask before the acid is kicking in. :)

Cheers,

Niki