On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 5:18 PM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 05:12:11 -0800 > Joseph Hume <[email protected]> dijo: > > >Jason, > > > >You will probably have to use dpkg -l to find the exact Opera package > >name and dpkg -r %packagename% to remove it. > > That's what I needed, the -l switch. I did > > sudo dpkg -l |grep opera > > And it listed the package as opera-static. WTH? What were those Opera > people thinking? "Static"? Who would have guessed that? And note that > Synaptic never listed opera-static. At first it listed nothing, then > after enabling the special Opera repository it listed Opera 11.61. Very > strange. > > And for further fun- The "static" most likely means that the package is statically linked to the required libraries, instead of relying on the ones installed on the system (which would be dynamically linked), which could sometimes lead to version conflicts. Just my $0.02 :) > Anyway, once I knew the name of the package "sudo dpkg -r opera-static" > got rid of it. And then "sudo aptitude install opera" found version > 11.61 in the repository and added it. > > All is peaceful again in Lucid-land. Thanks for the hint. :) > Glad it worked out ---------- Matt M. LinuxKnight _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
