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Linux 10.53beta
HiDue to the regrettable dropping of Solaris support, I just used FF
5644 pfloyd 421M 236M run 54 0 0:09:54 5.6% firefox-bin/12
[what a dog]
to download the version in the subject.
I tried running it on several versions of RedHat. Firstly, on an old version of RedHat [3], the installer script failed because it uses mktemp and that version of mktemp doesn't have the -t option. I also see that the installer no longer gives you total control over where it installs to. A regression in my opinion.
When I ran the installer on a more recent RedHat [5.3] ans succeeded, running opera gives me
/home/pfloyd/.local/lib/opera-10.53b/opera-10.53b: symbol lookup error: /home/pfloyd/.local/lib/opera-10.53b/opera-10.53b: undefined symbol: FT_Library_SetLcdFilter
"welcome to Linux dependcy Hell".
and on RedHat 3
opera [crash logging]: CRASH!!
/home/pfloyd/.local/lib/opera-10.53b/opera-10.53b got signal SIGSEGV at address 080B2F10
Log was created here:
/var/tmp/crash20100505163006.txt
Killed
A+
Paul
Originally posted by pjfloyd:
/home/pfloyd/.local/lib/opera-10.53b/opera-10.53b: symbol lookup error: /home/pfloyd/.local/lib/opera-10.53b/opera-10.53b: undefined symbol: FT_Library_SetLcdFilter
"welcome to Linux dependcy Hell".
Why don't you download the rpm and use the package-manager and let it solve the dependencies for you?
Originally posted by pjfloyd:
I didn't download the RPM version for the reason that most people download the tar version (at least I imagine): no root access.
I've got root access (on my own computer anyway
), but I like running multiple versions. 
You have therefore been doubly unlucky in that you went from Solaris to one of the few distros that won't currently work with the Beta.
You have therefore been doubly unlucky in that you went from Solaris to one of the few distros that won't currently work with the Beta.
Originally posted by pjfloyd:
/home/pfloyd/.local/lib/opera-10.53b/opera-10.53b: symbol lookup error: /home/pfloyd/.local/lib/opera-10.53b/opera-10.53b: undefined symbol: FT_Library_SetLcdFilter
Most likely not very helpfull info to you, but I've seen this error few weeks ago when I tried to run 32bit Opera on my Arch 64 install while trying to diagnose some issues with the 64bit version (which didn't ever show this error). And my 32bit font-related libraries are up-to-date and most certainly DO support that symbol, so it was kinda weird to see this pop up.
15. June 2010, 11:41:07 (edited)
Originally posted by pjfloyd:
We do not support versions or distros that are older than those supported by their upstream vendor.Firstly, on an old version of RedHat [3], the installer script failed because it uses mktemp and that version of mktemp doesn't have the -t option.
That said you don't need to install for testing, you can run opera in place via the opera start up script found within the extracted directory. I don't know if this will actually work on RHEL 3 or not however. If it doesn't due though any issue that does not replicate on a more modern (supported) distro will not be fixed.
People running RHEL 3 are primarily doing so in corporate server environments and not as desktop environments. Not supporting such dated versions of distros is in line with what our major competitors are doing.
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