Thanks for your help

[Robert M. Solovay]

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