[freebsd-questions] Error starting opera 8.00

[Frank Staals]

Lowell Gilbert wrote:

>Frank Staals <f.staals at zonnet.nl> writes:
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>>I downloaded opera 8.00, extracted the .tar.gz and ran the install.sh
>>script, all the files were copied to the right places. When I tried to
>>run opera I first had to symlink 2 libs ( libm.so.2 and libc_r.so.4 )
>>that wasn't much of a problem but when I try to run it now I get this
>>error:
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>>frank at Riza$ opera
>>/usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6: Undefined symbol
>>"__stderrp"
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>>I am running FreeBSD 5.3.
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>>Anyone an Idea what I am doing wrong ?
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>Not offhand (although it might just be a library inconsistency;
>symlinking like you did is not generally a good idea:  version 
>numbers get changed for a *reason*).  Try using the port; this 
>is exactly why we have them.
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>[/usr/ports/www/opera-devel]
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With the port I got the same error so that didn't do the job. I 
installed the new Opera by hand because the port wasn't updated yet.

Frank