I looked around: there are some published SRPM's for other environments,
listed at http://rpm.pbone.net, but they're wrappers around the binary
tarballs from Opera. So no, I think Larry is SOL.


On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Vladimir Mosgalin
<[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> Hi Nico Kadel-Garcia!
>
>  On 2013.11.02 at 13:16:11 -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote next:
>
> > If you're on SL 5.9, you are SOL for contemporary software. The
> dependency
> > tree is just too large, especially for published binary packages.
> >
> > If you can get the SRPM for opera, perhaps you can re-compile it on 5.9?
>
> opera isn't free software or even open source. Especially opera 12 which
> was built on proprietary Presto engine which they don't plan to open
> anytime soon (versions after that are based on chromium, but still
> closed source, just like google chrome).
>
> --
>
> Vladimir
>