> I am relatively new to OpenSolaris. > I have OpenSolaris-0906 installed. > Want to know how i can install the Opera Browser > software package that i have downloaded from internet.
Last I recall, Opera was available four different ways for Solaris, statically linked Qt (KDE) vs dynamically linked times tar.gz files vs SVR4 pkgadd format (.pkg or .pkg.gz suffix) I think OpenSolaris can handle SVR4 pkgadd files, in which case, you want the pkg or pkg.gz file that's statically linked with KDE (because I've never managed to come up with a version of the libs that's the same as what they use to build the dynamically linked one). If it has a pkg.gz rather than just pkg suffix, you may need to gunzip it. Then use pkgadd -d file.pkg to install it; answer "y" to the questions. Note: in my experience (mostly on SPARC), Opera is good (and quite fast, and doesn't leak memory as much as some browsers) with standards-compliant pages, and not so good with those that aren't. On SPARC, it's been a long time since a flash plugin worked with Opera, but I think it may work ok on x86. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
