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Hey all,
I have Red Hat 7.1 installed on a pentium II 300 and i am trying to get opera installed on it. I downloaded the rpm for it and tried to install it. When I did rpm -ivh (filename) It said i need libXm.so.2. Where do I find this and how do I install it when I find it? Is it on the CD?
It should be on the CD, because opera comes with RH (atleast I am pretty sure it came with 7.2). Anyway, search google, I am sure it is there someplace. Also, since you must be running some version of X, go to www.ximian.com They have a program called RedCarpet which is pretty cool. I am pretty sure that it supporst updates on opera.
tried googleing for the lib, that usualy works...
I have had no probs what so ever with the opera 4 linux...
But then, I never use RPM's...
Just the tgz
It has a nice install script with it..
Do you use the dynamicly linked or staticly linked? Whats the difference?Quote:
Originally posted here by the_JinX
tried googleing for the lib, that usualy works...
I have had no probs what so ever with the opera 4 linux...
But then, I never use RPM's...
Just the tgz
It has a nice install script with it..
How do you install it?
You probably seen the .DLLs in Windows? Tried deleting some from c:\winnt\system32\?
Well, what's gonna happen is that applications are gonna fail to execute because the DLLs are missing. Where I'm getting at is that these applications are Dynamically Linked (DLL=Dynamic Linked Library), different apps can use the same libraries. This saves space.
Same thing in Linux, there are libraries and you can link your applicaions to these. With static linking you include the whole library into your executable, which makes the application bigger. But then again you won't have the problem with missing (deleted) libraries.
I use the dynamicly linked ones..
But I compiled my own QT libs..
QT is the library behind Opera and KDE (www.trolltech.com)
there is a script u have to execute as root soething like Setup or something
just type ./Setup
(if the file name = Setup
What should I run ? Gnome or KDE?
Hehe that question will start a small war! But from my experiences using both Desktops, they are both excellent.
Also, I downloaded and installed opera for Red Hat 7.2 without a hitch. :) Worked beautifully.
ussually I will install both but I only have a one gig harddrive for now.Quote:
Originally posted here by uraloony
Hehe that question will start a small war! But from my experiences using both Desktops, they are both excellent.
KDE vs Gnome? What about Enlightenment? Just being an instigator.
I like Kde for the function and Gnome 4 the looks, but Opera should run well on both (atleast it does here)..
But Enlightenment is cool for the gaming area (I have different users 4 different tasks, running different window managers)
And I checked, Opera runs well on all..
You could try the static version, if u don't have Kde / Qt installed
Thanks for all your help. I got Opera 5.0 to install just fine. I will try 6.0 later when I have so time.