opera

[Michael Havens]

I am having difficulties installing flash into opera (it told me I need
to upgrade. I download it, upack it, and am asked to provide the
instalation path. I think this is noproble; i merely have to find where
the program is, /bin, /usr/bin, or one of those. So I type in 'find /
-name *opera* -print' and up pops a few things: the most promissing of
wich is /usr/bin/opera to which it responds it isn't a directory.
/usr/lib/opera
	not a directory
/usr/bin
	enter a valid path
/usr/lib
	enter a valid path
/home/bmike1/.opera <----I KNOW this is a directory/why isn't it valid?
	enter a valid path
/usr/lib/mozilla
	enter a valid path

So tell me.... what should I enter?

On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 06:56:37 -0700
JT Moree <moreejt at pcxperience.com> wrote:

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> Michael Havens wrote:
> > As for 'dpkg -L' ..... hmmmmmm..... welll aint that a finhow do ya
> > do! It says 'package not installed'. I ran dselect! I just tried to
> > run it again but it was to no avail! It responds, '0 upgraded
> > 0..... etc.' Do I need to put it in a special location? /bin
> > perhaps and then run dselect? (for not being a debian guy you sure
> > know a lot:D)
> 
> 1) avoid dselect.  its interface sucks ImHO
> 2) use dpkg if the file is downloaded already.  as in
>   dpkg -i opera-9.x.x-y
> 3) use apt-cache and apt-get as much as possible--although in this
> case I don't see opera when I search for it so it probably wont'
> help.  But I'm using Kubuntu 6.06 and don't have backports enabled.
> 4) install synaptic.  if you are using icewm then you probably have
> installed some gtk based configuration applets like icepref and iceme.
> if gtk libs are already installed then istalling synaptic shouldn't
> pull in too many more libs.
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