On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Day Brown wrote: > I tried installing Opera, and went down the garden path for weeks. When > I tried to download it, their host insisted on sending me the latest > version, which however would not run on the 2.2 Kernel the Corel install > was using. And maybe there is something wrong with the Corel Debian > setup, but apt-get just didnt. At best it'd tell me a buncha stuff I > needed, and when I went to get that, that stuff like Gcc+ or whatever, > told me I had to go get something else. Kafkaesque.
Two mistakes here: Opera has an archive where any and all of its older browser versions can be downloaded. You apparently failed to discover it. You were *not*, I repeat *NOT* using apt-get. apt-get does dependency resolution and always installs, if anything, more than you need to run any given program. You might've been using dpkg - Debian's older package manager - but if you had the kind of problems you describe here, you were *not* using apt. Don't blame your failure to find and use the right tools on Corel or Debian. Hopefully you'll someday use the real apt (maybe it's on Xandros? - dunno) and will then correct your erroneous notions about it. James
