Ruarí Ødegaard

Posts tagged with "QT"

Qt Styles

Monday, November 9, 2009 8:56:02 AM

Recently there has been a lot of talk on the My Opera forums and in the comments of Desktop Team blog about Qt styles. Some of this discussion has been about setting the "-style" option to avoid crashes and separately other users questioning why the brand new "-systemstyle" option is not the default. So far I have not seen anyone put two and two together but these issues are related.

Which version?

Monday, September 28, 2009 8:00:44 PM

DEB, RPM, gcc, TAR ...

Most of this information is now dated. Please read Selecting a Linux or FreeBSD package and installing it instead!

We frequently get questions about which Opera Linux package is the right one to install. Typically this is more common when we offer up a snapshot or when www.opera.com/download needs updating to show the latest and most popular distro version. My colleague csant has covered this topic before. However, as it is been a while and a few things have changed I think it is probably a good time for an update. I would also like to talk a little about the reasoning for the different packages and why we suggest one over another for a particular distro user.

Quick summary

Firstly for those who just want to know what to download and don't care too much about the background here is the quick summary:

If you use a recent version of a modern popular Linux distro, you want one of the builds that includes 'gcc4' and 'qt3' in the name. (OpenSUSE 11.2 users should use a 'gcc4' 'qt4' .rpm package).
Consider which processor architecture you use. We offer three for Linux: Intel (also called i386 or IA-32), x86_64 (amd64) and PowerPC (ppc). If this means nothing to you then you are almost certainly using Intel/i386!
What package file format does your distro use? We offer two native types: RPM Package Manager (these end with a .rpm extention) and Debian Packages (these end with .deb). For users with another package management system we offer .tar files, optionally compressed with either the gzip or bzip2 compressors. I realise some people may still be unsure which package management system is native for them, so here are some example popular Linux distributions which would use each type:
.rpm = ALT Linux, CentOS, Fedora, Mandriva, PCLinuxOS, Red Hat, openSUSE & Yellow Dog
.deb = Debian, MEPIS, Linux Mint, Ubuntu & Xandros (Eee PC)
.tar = Arch, Gentoo, Sabayon & Slackware

So assuming you running a modern and up to date distro, on an Intel/i386 processor and need Debian packages you would want: opera_XX.XX.XXXX.gcc4.qt3_i386.deb (where the X's are the build and version numbers). Make sense? I hope so!

Note: I have assumed that FreeBSD and Solaris users are able to figure out which builds they need for their OS version. However, if you are not sure please do ask below as I would be happy to help!