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Thanks, I will next time I'm in Opera (I'm posting from Seamonkey atm).

I've just downloaded and installed the Opera 10.10 pet, but I get this error message;

However, these dependencies are missing.

File /usr/lib/opera/libQtGui.so.4 has these missing library files;

libaudio.so.2
libQt.core.so.4

Is there an easy way of locating and installing the missing files?

Thanks in advance,

Colonel Panic.

Come on, people! Can we get some servers that aren't going to shut down because Puppy is so popular?

I keep making the plug: My website has UNLIMITED BANDWIDTH and UNLIMITED STORAGE and I pay a premium for it and I REALLY WOULD LIKE TO USE IT TO END THIS PROBLEM ONCE AND FOR ALL!!!!!

Why won't people take me seriously? I keep offering, even giving FTP creds to one or another user, and giving them their own folders, and they remain empty! WHY??!

Opera introduced these "hot keys" without any explanation or apparent way to get rid of them. They should'nt be there by default, in my opinion.

Colonel Panic wrote:I've just downloaded and installed the Opera 10.10 pet, but I get this error message;

However, these dependencies are missing.

File /usr/lib/opera/libQtGui.so.4 has these missing library files;

libaudio.so.2
libQt.core.so.4

Is there an easy way of locating and installing the missing files?

There are a couple of different PETs of Opera 10 on the forums. I'm running Opera 10.10 in a static build, and I believe the one I used was from a pet called opera-10.10_static.pet. I don't see dependency issues.

Static builds are compiled to include as much of the library code as possible in the executable, instead of linking against external libraries when run. The executables are a lot larger than a dynamically built version, but load faster on the sort of hardware Puppy tends to be used on, and tend not to have the missing dependencies issues because the required library code is built it.

If you feel like hacking a bit, you can get a static Qt build from Opera. It's delivered as a DEB file for Debian/Ubuntu systems, but you can extract the needed parts and manually put them where they need to go.
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Dennis

Thanks for the link Dennis. I should have said though that somebody's already pm'ed me with a link to a working pet of Opera 10.10 and I'm now using it.

Since you mention DEB files though, could you tell me how you extract files from one? I'd like to know for the future.

Thanks in advance,

CP .

Colonel Panic wrote:Thanks for the link Dennis. I should have said though that somebody's already pm'ed me with a link to a working pet of Opera 10.10 and I'm now using it.

Since you mention DEB files though, could you tell me how you extract files from one? I'd like to know for the future.

I normally do it under Windows, but it can be done from Linux as well.

The DEB file is an archive that can be opened with an archive utility. Under Windows, I use the free, open source, 7zip package. Under Linux, I use Xarchiver.

The DEB file contains a control.gz archive and a data.gz archive. We don't care about the former, as it contains metadata used by the Debian package manager. The data.gz archive contains the actual program code.

The data.gz file in Opera, for instance, has an /etc directory with Opera entries, and a /usr directory containing bin, lib, and share subdirectories.

You could simply extract the /etc/ and /usr hierarchies to /, and the process would put the files where they are supposed to go.

You would need to do some fiddling to create the menu entries and the like for Puppy.

I believe the most recent Puppy Package Manager is supposed to handle DEB files, but I don't try to use it for them and can't say from experience how well it does.
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Dennis

Thanks for the info Dennis There used to be a utility in Vector called deb2tgz which converted deb files to tgz ones, but I haven't seen it in Vector Light (the version I'm using at the moment).

Someone's actually created a deb2pet utility, but I'm not sure how well it works. See this post for more details.

Thanks for the info.

Great job with this pet.

I use it on all my Puppy installs.

Very nice pet, indeed, but 10.11 final and even 10.60rc1 are out. So I uninstalled 10.10 from Wary, and now I'm trying 10.60.6384.i386.deb (http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/). It installs like a pet, by clicking deb icon, surviving all Opera settings from /.opera.

Youtube videos are OK, but some sites don't accept 10.60, including Wimbledon live scores... and yes, I have 10.1r53 installed.

xman wrote:Very nice pet, indeed, but 10.11 final and even 10.60rc1 are out.

If you want 10.11 now, I did make a (static, I think) PET for it. It's in this thread.

hi gang
Im kinda new to opera.I have the static 9.6 on my p1@300mhz/96 meg old lappy.Im using tuxxx's 214xr5 "classic;( all the Foxes and there cousins are real slow or give me "thres a script that has stopped working" error
Could any one tell me if i would see a difrence in preformance if I go up to opera 10? so far the 9.6 seemes too suit my needs.
thanx Gang

I don't know the answer, but in general my advice is, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." I've had more problems in Linux trying to get something which works 90% well (and which I can live with) work 100% well, than I've had from anything else. And since you've said 9.6 seems to suit your needs, my advice is to stick with it.

Colonel Panic wrote:I don't know the answer, but in general my advice is, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." I've had more problems in Linux trying to get something which works 90% well (and which I can live with) work 100% well, than I've had from anything else. And since you've said 9.6 seems to suit your needs, my advice is to stick with it.

good point
BUT im a lil bit tim Allen and bob villa ,so i know enough to help my self a lil bit but also enough to do a lil damage