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How to install Opera developer for Linux on distributions other than Debian, Ubuntu or derivatives
FYI: I modified Fedora rpmbuild script to package opera for OpenSUSE.
@kikonen Thanks! I have added you above.
P.S. There is no need to do anything special for libssl on OpenSUSE ;)
Most of the rpm .spec files I have found use overly complicated workarounds for libcrypto (by bundling libs) and create rpms that will on work on specific distro releases by including libudev compatibility symlinks, rather than making them on the fly (as needed) in post install. I have therefore created some examples to demonstrate how I would deal with these issues.
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@RLndggr I checked and I did not need to do this with Opera 26.0.1656.32. Yes we depend on /usr/lib64/libXss.so.1 (provided by the
libXScrnSaver
package) but no compatibility symlink is required.libXScrnSaver
should already be present on a typical Fedora desktop install. However, if it is missing, you can simply issue the command: