Need help re: permissions

Clark Nova · 7 Feb 2006 at 20:58

I'm trying to install Opera on my computer but am running into a problem. I go to the console and navigate to the folder with the installation files in and type:

./install.sh

It asks me if I want to proceed with the installation but then tells me I do not have write access to the folder /etc.

Please try to spare me any jargon, I'm really new to Linux so if you could make the answer as "dumbed down" as possible it will really help me. I want to get into Linux but am finding installations a bit daunting at the moment. I am using Ubuntu 5.10 for x64 if that helps at all

Clark Nova · 7 Feb 2006 at 21:48

Thanks very much Dunky, it's installed now as far as I can see but I can't find any shortcuts to launch the program with. This is what happened when I installed Opera:

Files will be installed as follows:
-----------------------------------------------------------
Wrapper Script : /usr/bin
Binaries : /usr/lib/opera/8.51-20051114.6
Plugins : /usr/lib/opera/plugins
Shared files : /usr/share/opera
Documentation : /usr/share/doc/opera
-----------------------------------------------------------
Is this correct [ y,n,c | yes,no,cancel ] ?
y

System wide configuration files:
/etc/opera6rc
/etc/opera6rc.fixed
would be ignored if installed with the prefix "/usr".
Do you want to install them in /etc [ y,n | yes,no ] ?
y

Any suggestions? Thanks again for your help

**edited for a typo**

Clark Nova · 8 Feb 2006 at 19:18

whitecrook said:
type opera

Sorry, I'm not up to speed with this still

Which folder do I need to be in when I type it? I've searched through loads of folders but I can't seem to find anything that will launch the program.

Thanks

Clark Nova · 8 Feb 2006 at 19:44

Still doesn't seem to be working Dunky

This is what I get when I follow your instructions:

cd bin
simon@Desktop:/usr/bin$ opera
ERROR: ld.so: object 'libjvm.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object 'libawt.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
/usr/lib/opera/8.51-20051114.6/opera: error while loading shared libraries: libqt-mt.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
simon@Desktop:/usr/bin$

I don't know have a clue what much of that means but I'm guessing it's not installed correctly. Can you help any further? It's greatly appreciated, I'm not a big fan of Firefox and I use Opera from Windows so if I can get it working it will make it so much easier for me to switch

Clark Nova · 8 Feb 2006 at 20:07

Mr Potatohead said:
I would wager that

Code:

sudo apt-get install libqt3-mt

would solve at least some of your problems.

Edit: you can type that in anywhere, you don't need to be in any specific directory.

Thanks very much, it's certainly done something:

simon@Desktop:/usr/bin$ sudo apt-get install libqt3-mt
Password:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Suggested packages:
libqt3-mt-psql libqt3-mt-mysql libqt3-mt-odbc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libqt3-mt
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 3605kB of archives.
After unpacking 11.6MB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com breezy/main libqt3-mt 3:3.3.4-8ubuntu5 [3605kB]
Fetched 3605kB in 29s (122kB/s)

Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously deselected package libqt3-mt.
(Reading database ... 59729 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libqt3-mt (from .../libqt3-mt_3%3a3.3.4-8ubuntu5_amd64.deb) ...
Setting up libqt3-mt (3.3.4-8ubuntu5) ...

simon@Desktop:/usr/bin$ opera
ERROR: ld.so: object 'libjvm.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object 'libawt.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
/usr/lib/opera/8.51-20051114.6/opera: error while loading shared libraries: libqt-mt.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
simon@Desktop:/usr/bin$ sudo apt-get install libqt3-mt

But as you can see it is still not working when I type "opera" in usr/bin. What else do I need to do now? Thanks to all for your help with this

Clark Nova · 9 Feb 2006 at 00:12

Thanks Mr Potatohead, I think that would work but it says it doesn't support the architecture I am using, ie it's only for i386 and not for AMD64 systems. I think I might have to uninstall this version of Ubuntu and install the 32-bit version instead because there are so many things that I can't get installed easily such as Flash, Opera and a few other things which escape me now.

Thanks again, I'm not going to give up yet. I'll come back to this thread in the morning after I've downloaded the 32-bit ISO and try again.

Clark Nova · 15 Feb 2006 at 09:33

Well, I sorted it out quite easily in the end. I reinstalled Linux as the i386 version of Ubuntu 5.10. Then I ran the Automatix script and it gave me the option to install Opera and the script just did it for me. So now I am pretty much down to using Ubuntu only, just going back into Windows to play games and the such but I'm looking at installing Wine and seeing if I can get them running ok under that this weekend :cool:

Thanks everyone