I don't think Opera is open source. The program is pre-beta. They say
"don't tell us about bugs; we have enough that we find ourselves to deal
with right now". [Not an exact quote.]
On Sat, 13 May 2000, Linux Rocks! wrote:
> Hmm... Well, It looks like opera is giving you the error, not bash.
> Its standard to strip your compiled programs after compiling them (this
> removes a bunch of code from the executable that it doenst need). If
> there are versions of opera compiled for lib5 and lib6, then try them
> both! that would be a lot easier than installing a new distro (although
> you may need to do that anyway...)
> Have you tried downloading the source and compiling it
> yourself? you may have better luck (you also may end up installing a bunch
> of stuff just to be able to compile it...).
>
> Jamie
>
> On Sat, 13 May 2000, Robert M. Solovay wrote:
>
> >
> > This concerns what I thought was weird behaviour in bash.
> >
> > 1) People were right that what I was getting was an error message from
> > bash while executing opera to the effect that some other file couldn't
> > be found.
> >
> > 2) I'm not sure which was the first file to trigger an error. But I found
> > the string /lib/ld-linux.so.2 in the file opera [using the command
> >
> > % strings opera
> >
> > On my system I have ld-linux.so.1
> >
> > Also, there is the string /usr/local/qt/include/qlistbox.h
> >
> > qt is not installed on my machine.
> >
> > I clearly will have to upgrade my Linux distribution before trying
> > to install the Opera web-browser.
> >
> > I didn't know previously about the "strace" command. I'm glad to
> > make its acquaintance.
> >
> > Again, many thanks.
> >
> > --Bob Solovay
> >
> >
>
>
