Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4398 mails)

[Carl William Spitzer IV <cwsiv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 2005-09-24 at 13:08 -0400, Kelly J. Morris wrote:
> Opera 8.5 - free and without ads - is now available. I have not
> installed the previous Linux version (7.54) using YaST, but I would like
> to try 8.5, so I downloaded the package for SuSE:
> 
> opera-8.50-20050916.5-shared-qt.i386-en.rpm
> 
> Where and how should I install it? When I try, I get an error message
> saying that there is no application associated with the file type (i.e.
> rpm). I could use YaST to install the old version but I don't see how to
> use it to install the new version.

For a single rpm log in as root and from konsole run kpackage
first time check the box for test install.  If the result is 0 there 
are no errors uncheck the test and install for real.

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