Error starting opera 8.00

[Pietro Cerutti]

On 4/20/05, Frank Staals <f.staals at zonnet.nl> wrote:
> Lowell Gilbert wrote:
>
> >Frank Staals <f.staals at zonnet.nl> writes:
> >
> >
> >
> >>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:
> >>
> >>frank at Riza$ opera
> >>/usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6: Undefined symbol
> >>"__stderrp"
> >>

Try downloading the static version, and not the shared one.
I suggest to use the linux-opera version from the ports, or you won't
be able to run flash!


> >>I am running FreeBSD 5.3.
> >>
> >>Anyone an Idea what I am doing wrong ?
> >>
> >>
> >
> >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.
> >
> >[/usr/ports/www/opera-devel]
> >
> >
> >
> 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
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