Opera doesn't launch...help

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#1

openSuse 11.1 gnome
Hi, Downloaded Opera through synaptic and it instaled. However, when I click on the icon it doesn’t launch. What am I doing wrong with this program?
It also didn’t launch when I was running openSuse 10.3, what am i missing?

#2

Open it using console , gnome-terminal
and see the error message

#3

first: what is synaptic? (you do know this is the openSUSE forum,
right? have you tried YaST or zypper?)

second: when you say you installed it, what do you mean? how did you
install it? with YaST, or manually (try fetching and installing with YaST)

third: open a terminal and type in opera and press enter, do you
get any error messages…anything at all??

fourth: you ask what you are missing, and i guess it is the correct
way to get and install a program on openSUSE…have a read here:
http://en.opensuse.org/Concepts#Software_handling_in_openSUSE_.28Package_Management.29

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#4

Synaptic? That’s for Debian (Ubuntu a.o). Sure you’re on openSUSE? Then do this:
Open a terminal and type:
zypper in opera
That should install Opera 9.64 from the repos
Been running Opera since 1998, apart from some weird experiences with alpha’s and beta’s it never failed on me. Still use it on a daily basis.

#5

Hi,

  • Yes am using Suse…YAST
  • Tried to install using YAST
  • Opened terminal and type Opera…this message appears
    …Desktop> opera
    /usr/lib/opera/9.64/opera: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/opera/9.64/opera: undefined symbol: static_QUType_varptr
    adam@linux-8gf7:~/Desktop>

Thanks for your help, what should I do from here?

#6

it means that the library needed is missing,

Type:


ldd /usr/lib/opera/9.64/opera

paste the output here.

it will tell you what libraries opera needs.
just need to install the ones you don’t have

#7

> it means that the library needed is missing,

hmmmm, could/would YaST complete the install without noting (and
filling) all the library requirements?

adstaryoung typed “Tried to install using YAST” and i now wanna BOLD
type that TRIED and wonder if there were YaST errors ignored,
maybe??

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#8

Hi,
here is what I typed…and the information that appeared. I actually re-installed Opera through Yast with no apparent problems, and there were no ignored dependencies.
I also did the zypper in opera thing, look below

ldd /usr/lib/opera/9.64/opera
linux-gate.so.1 => (0xffffe000)
libqt-mt.so.3 => /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 (0xb764e000)
libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 (0xb751b000)
libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXext.so.6 (0xb750a000)
libSM.so.6 => /usr/lib/libSM.so.6 (0xb7501000)
libICE.so.6 => /usr/lib/libICE.so.6 (0xb74e5000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0xb74cb000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0xb74c6000)
libz.so.1 => /lib/libz.so.1 (0xb74b1000)
libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0xb73bd000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0xb7394000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb7384000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0xb7228000)
libXrender.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXrender.so.1 (0xb721e000)
libstdc+±libc6.2-2.so.3 => /usr/lib/libstdc+±libc6.2-2.so.3 (0xb71dc000)
libxcb-xlib.so.0 => /usr/lib/libxcb-xlib.so.0 (0xb71d9000)
libxcb.so.1 => /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1 (0xb71ba000)
libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXau.so.6 (0xb71b6000)
libuuid.so.1 => /lib/libuuid.so.1 (0xb71b0000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7f92000)

ALSO…
zypper in opera
Loading repository data…
Reading installed packages…
‘opera’ is already installed.
Resolving package dependencies…
Nothing to do.

also tried opera in terminal, here are the results…
opera
/usr/lib/opera/9.64/opera: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/opera/9.64/opera: undefined symbol: static_QUType_varptr

Where to from here?

#9 
zypper rm opera

then

zypper in opera

now try

#10

ok,:slight_smile: you have all the libraries needed,

pls try to download & install the static build rpm directly from opera,here
http://mirror.publicns.net/pub/opera/linux/964/final/en/i386/static/opera-9.64.gcc4-static-qt3.i386.rpm


zypper rm opera
rpm -i opera-9.64.gcc4-static-qt3.i386.rpm

Good luck