Hi All, I wanted to give Opera a try so I downloaded it from their site and installed it. However, it doesn't seem to want to run. I click the icon and it appears to be trying to start but it eventually just quits. No error messages of any kind. Anyone have any idea what the problem is?? If it matters I am running SuSE 9.0 Thanks Russ
Opera is on the CD's, deinstall what ever you did... Use Yast to install it preconfigured from CD's Jerry P.S. YXou might save yourself a lot of trouble in the future by looking in Ysat first! On Sun, 2004-05-23 at 15:34, Russ wrote:
Hi All,
I wanted to give Opera a try so I downloaded it from their site and installed it. However, it doesn't seem to want to run. I click the icon and it appears to be trying to start but it eventually just quits. No error messages of any kind. Anyone have any idea what the problem is??
If it matters I am running SuSE 9.0
Thanks Russ
On Sunday 23 May 2004 08:34, Russ wrote:
Hi All,
I wanted to give Opera a try so I downloaded it from their site and installed it. However, it doesn't seem to want to run. I click the icon and it appears to be trying to start but it eventually just quits. No error messages of any kind. Anyone have any idea what the problem is??
Try running it from the command line. Perhaps you will then see error messages. -- Robert C. Paulsen, Jr. robert@paulsenonline.net
Alle 15:34, domenica 23 maggio 2004, Russ ha scritto:
Hi All,
I wanted to give Opera a try so I downloaded it from their site and installed it. However, it doesn't seem to want to run. I click the icon and it appears to be trying to start but it eventually just quits. No error messages of any kind. Anyone have any idea what the problem is??
If it matters I am running SuSE 9.0
Try to launch it from Konsole and look at the output errors (if there are any)
* Russ
I wanted to give Opera a try so I downloaded it from their site and installed it. However, it doesn't seem to want to run. I click the icon and it appears to be trying to start but it eventually just quits. No error messages of any kind. Anyone have any idea what the problem is??
If it matters I am running SuSE 9.0
If you want to use the opera package from opera, get the static version and you should have no problems. There is a suse rpm at: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/9.0/rpm/i586/opera-7.50-1.i586.rpm note: the opera static rpm does not place the files in the same location as the suse rpm.... -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/9.0/rpm/i586/opera-7.50-1.i586.rpm
Thanks to everyone who responded to my post. No matter what I did I couldn't get it to run. I even tried it from a command line but made no difference. I ended up uninstalling everything I did. Then getting the rpm from the link above. Works like a charm now. However, I cannot get the email part to work. Is this a stripped down rpm version, without the email client included? I like to have more than one option for browsers. Konq is great but it chokes on some sites. I have FireFox but the fonts look horrible so I only use it as a last resort (the fonts in konq look great). Opera seems to do even better than Konq and seems to render some pages better. I like what I see so far. I would really like to give the email client a look see too (I am using ThunderBird right now). Thanks Russ
On Sunday 23 May 2004 16:15, Russ wrote:
However, I cannot get the email part to work. Is this a stripped down rpm version, without the email client included?
No, No , your email client is there. This M2 works different then the way you are used to. There is a special tutorial for the email and it's a must to read that first. Personally I don't use it because I find Kmail together with Kshowmail superior.
I like to have more than one option for browsers.
I tell you what I have: On Desktop 1 I have my email client + Konq. On 2 I have Opera for general browsing. On 4 I have another window open from Opera for all my music needs. On 6 I have another Opera window open for news etc. Anyway more often then not I have 3 to 4 Opera windows open with a total of 60 pages ................and it works perfect. -- Greetings from /bill at 169 west , 19 south. Disclaimer: Any errors in spelling, tact, or fact are transmission errors."
Bill Wisse wrote:
On Sunday 23 May 2004 16:15, Russ wrote:
However, I cannot get the email part to work. Is this a stripped down rpm version, without the email client included?
No, No , your email client is there. This M2 works different then the way you are used to. There is a special tutorial for the email and it's a must to read that first. Personally I don't use it because I find Kmail together with Kshowmail superior.
I went to the web site and found the tutorial. However, I do not have a menu entry 'mail' and in the preferences all the Opera mail options are grayed out. Any ideas?? Thanks Russ
On Monday 24 May 2004 14:38, Russ wrote:
I went to the web site and found the tutorial. However, I do not have a menu entry 'mail'
I'm not sure , but what happens if you hit F4? Any mail entry there on the left hand side?
and in the preferences all the Opera mail options are grayed out. Any ideas??
Strange, you must be able to choose an specific email client or Opera as your email. -- Greetings from /bill at 169 west , 19 south. Disclaimer: Any errors in spelling, tact, or fact are transmission errors."
* Russ
I went to the web site and found the tutorial. However, I do not have a menu entry 'mail' and in the preferences all the Opera mail options are grayed out. Any ideas??
Yes, rename '~/.opera to anything different after shutting down all instances of opera. Restart opera and look for the 'mail' icon. I believe that you already had an ~/.opera directory and your new ver is using old parameters which did not have mail. -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711
Yes, rename '~/.opera to anything different after shutting down all instances of opera. Restart opera and look for the 'mail' icon.
I did this several different times but I still didn't get any 'mail' menu item or side button. F4 did nothing. So I uninstalled it again and downloaded the rpm from Opera's site 'QT Shared Red Hat 9' YaST ran with it and now everything works, including mail. Thanks for your responses Russ
On Sunday 23 May 2004 15.34, Russ wrote:
Hi All,
I wanted to give Opera a try so I downloaded it from their site and installed it. However, it doesn't seem to want to run. I click the icon and it appears to be trying to start but it eventually just quits. No error messages of any kind. Anyone have any idea what the problem is??
If it matters I am running SuSE 9.0
The opera download page is heavily outdated, at least as far as its description of which version fits which version of linux. Get the one labelled "redhat 9" and you should be fine on suse 9.0 and 9.1. No need for the static version at all
On Sun, 2004-05-23 at 11:36, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Sunday 23 May 2004 15.34, Russ wrote:
Hi All,
I wanted to give Opera a try so I downloaded it from their site and installed it. However, it doesn't seem to want to run. I click the icon and it appears to be trying to start but it eventually just quits. No error messages of any kind. Anyone have any idea what the problem is??
If it matters I am running SuSE 9.0
The opera download page is heavily outdated, at least as far as its description of which version fits which version of linux. Get the one labelled "redhat 9" and you should be fine on suse 9.0 and 9.1. No need for the static version at all
Will that also work on 8.2? Mike
* Mike McMullin
On Sun, 2004-05-23 at 11:36, Anders Johansson wrote:
The opera download page is heavily outdated, at least as far as its description of which version fits which version of linux. Get the one labelled "redhat 9" and you should be fine on suse 9.0 and 9.1. No need for the static version at all
Will that also work on 8.2?
The 'static' version should as it does not link to your lib's. It brings it's own. That is why it is larger. -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711
On Sunday 23 May 2004 18.40, Mike McMullin wrote:
On Sun, 2004-05-23 at 11:36, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Sunday 23 May 2004 15.34, Russ wrote:
Hi All,
I wanted to give Opera a try so I downloaded it from their site and installed it. However, it doesn't seem to want to run. I click the icon and it appears to be trying to start but it eventually just quits. No error messages of any kind. Anyone have any idea what the problem is??
If it matters I am running SuSE 9.0
The opera download page is heavily outdated, at least as far as its description of which version fits which version of linux. Get the one labelled "redhat 9" and you should be fine on suse 9.0 and 9.1. No need for the static version at all
Will that also work on 8.2?
It should. The main problem is which version of gcc was used to compile it (the c++ compatibility thing) and 8.2 was gcc 3.3 just like the newer suse versions
On Sun, 2004-05-23 at 09:34, Russ wrote:
Hi All,
I wanted to give Opera a try so I downloaded it from their site and installed it. However, it doesn't seem to want to run. I click the icon and it appears to be trying to start but it eventually just quits. No error messages of any kind. Anyone have any idea what the problem is??
If it matters I am running SuSE 9.0
I like Opera but installing it seems to be too much fun. I've gotten the 7.11 QT-Static-linked to install and run, but Synaptic looks at it as being a broken package and wants to remove it. I'd suggest that you open a shell and type in "Opera" (without the quotes) and read what is reported there. Mike
On Sunday 23 May 2004 05:35, Mike McMullin wrote:
On Sun, 2004-05-23 at 09:34, Russ wrote:
Hi All,
I wanted to give Opera a try so I downloaded it from their site and installed it. However, it doesn't seem to want to run. I click the icon and it appears to be trying to start but it eventually just quits. No error messages of any kind. Anyone have any idea what the problem is??
If it matters I am running SuSE 9.0
I like Opera but installing it seems to be too much fun. I've gotten the 7.11 QT-Static-linked to install and run, but Synaptic looks at it as being a broken package and wants to remove it. I'd suggest that you open a shell and type in "Opera" (without the quotes) and read what is reported there.
First: Try to start Opera from the CLI with opera --personaldir Installing Opera on a SuSE system is a breeze. http://download.opera.com/index.dml?platform=linux rpm QT static and way it runs. /bill . Opera user since 3.60 -- Greetings from /bill at 169 west , 19 south. Disclaimer: Any errors in spelling, tact, or fact are transmission errors."
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