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Opera.com: Opera 4.0b2 for Linux is now available

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 30, 2000

“Opera for Linux is available on the Intel x-86 (beta 2) and
Power PC (beta 1) platforms.”

“Opera for Linux has been tested on RedHat Linux 6.2, Debian
Potato 2.2, Slackware 7, NetBSD 1.5_ALPHA2/i386, and Linux Mandrake
7.1; we’ll be releasing versions regularly now with the progress
updated. There are now also ports to other platforms working nearly
as well as the RedHat Linux 6.2 version is. We’re compiling on
pretty much everything and making use of tools that are different
between platforms to make Opera work as well as possible.”

“Qt 2.2.0 has been released and has been used to make this
version of Opera for Linux. Qt 2.2.0 can be downloaded from a few
different sites. Most sites that carry the KDE project make Qt 2.2
available as binaries or packages. Otherwise download the Qt 2.2.0
source files from www.trolltech.com and compile it for your system.
Opera requires the -gif option to be used when configuring Qt to
compile. Once it is compiled make sure to add the $QTDIR/lib
directory to the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable in order to
run Opera properly.”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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