From: STeve Andre' (andresmsu.edu)
Date: Thu Sep 02 2004 - 12:33:44 CDT

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On Thursday 02 September 2004 21:09, Dave Feustel wrote:
> On Thursday 02 September 2004 12:00 pm, R. Clayton wrote:
> > I would like to install the opera browser on a 3.5 laptop with no network
> > connections. As far as I can tell, there is no opera package, which
> > throws me back to ports. My reading of the documentation suggests to me
> > that ports won't work without a network.
> >
> > The laptop has a floppy and a cd reader, and I can cut floppies and cds
> > (it also has a modem port, but I have no dial-up). At one point I had a
> > serial-line network between it and a linux machine, but that was when the
> > laptop was running debian. If necessary, I can install openbsd on an
> > networked machine.
> >
> > What's the best way to install opera on my laptop?
>
> One solution I have used several times is to get all the ports (for 3.4 in
> this case) burned on cdrom from http://chguy.net. The entire port set fit
> on 3 cdroms and cost me < $20, postage included. I copied all the cdroms to
> /home/CDs and then could install any port (including dependencies) easily.
>
> Dave Feustel 260-422-5330

That isn't likely to work in the case of opera. Not all packages can be
released to the world, depending on their licenses. This is why there
are more ports than packages. Since Opera doesn't exist as a package
I'd bet that the license is the reason. I don't know anything about chguy,
but hopefully they aren't making their own packages, which is what they'd
have to do if they offered everything.

--STeve Andre'

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