My apologies for butting into this list, 99 44/100% of
which is far over my head!
I have *just* kicked MonkeySoft off my back. I had been
running RH 7.2 for most of a year on a second hard drive; this past
weekend at an installfest I had the good fortune to find people who
could remove the original W98 drive (which now goes to the firing
range <grin>) and replace it with one on which RH 8.0 is installed.
The first things I want to do to start shifting over are to
get Opera and Pan up and running on it. I haven't even found a
variety of Pan to try yet; I did try Opera, with very discouraging
results.
I thought I had installed Opera -- it opened, and handled
two or three tabs, only to disappear. That was the shorter, shared
version, which I had presumed 8.0 could handle.
So I decided to download the static version, uninstall the
shared, and ... -- but bogged down.
RH 8.0 seems to think I both had and had not installed the
shared. I tried to uninstall it; when I got the result of rpm -e, I
took it at face value, supposed the app to've somehow opened
uninstalled -- which might explain its crashing -- and tried to
install with -ivh.
NOTE: to get the -ivh command, I hit up arrow till, sure
enough, despite the result of -e, I hit one with -Uvh; then I
switched the U for i, making no other change, and hit enter.
==========================
[root@localhost rhn]# cd /home/btth
[root@localhost btth]# ls
opera-6.11-20021129.1-static-qt.i386.rpm
opera-6.11-20021129.4-shared-qt.i386.rpm
[root@localhost btth]# rpm -e
opera-6.11-20021129.4-shared-qt.i386.rpm
error: package opera-6.11-20021129.4-shared-qt.i386.rpm is not
installed
[root@localhost btth]# rpm -ivh
opera-6.11-20021129.4-shared-qt.i386.rpm
Preparing...
(########################################### [100%]
package opera-6.11-20021129.4 is already installed
[root@localhost btth]#
===========================
So how do I get my good fast handy browser??
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RR 'Beartooth' Neuswanger <karhunhammas (at) lserv.com>
Double Retiree, Linuxer's Apprentice, Curmudgeon On Line
Facta est lux! Deletum est MegaSleazo!
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