opera 9.63 installation and Qt version

Paul B. Mahol onemda at gmail.com
Sat Jan 24 08:36:39 PST 2009


On 1/24/09, Saifi Khan <saifi.khan at twincling.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Jan 2009, Paul B. Mahol wrote:
>
>> On 1/24/09, Saifi Khan <saifi.khan at twincling.org> wrote:
>> > Hi:
>> >
>> > Qt 4.4.3 is installed on my FreeBSD 7.1 i386 system.
>> >
>> > Now, when i attempt to install Opera 9.63 from the ports, it tries to
>> > download Qt 3.3.8
>> > Is there a way to modify the installation script so that Opera can use
>> > the installed qt 4.4.3 version ?
>>
>> Yes you can modify it, but question is will opera work at all with qt 4.
>> There is static opera binary, try it.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Paul
>>
>
> The download site for FreeBSD is
> http://www.opera.com/browser/download/?os=freebsd-i386&list=all
>
> It shows the following entry
> FreeBSD 7.x (static)           7 MB
>
> But when the file is downloaded, it is "shared" version.
> opera-9.63-freebsd7-shared-qt3.i386.tar.bz2
>
> Thus static opera binary is not available :(

Well for 9.63 there is only static one for FreeBSD 5.
After all this is not freebsd problem, ask opera where is
static version for FreeBSD 7

-- 
Paul


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