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Old 16th April 2009
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Originally Posted by ax0 View Post
maybe I needed to install the fedora emulator port because opera is linux version?
Yes.

Also note that the Linux emulation available under OpenBSD is dated. Given that effort is being made to bring third-party applications into the ports tree such that they run natively on OpenBSD, developer interest in maintaining the emulation layer is waning.

...& as a clarification on terminology, "port" refers to the third-party application found in the ports tree. By saying "port", some may interpret your statements that you are building the application from source. "Packages" on the other hand, are the resulting tarball(s) which are created at the end of building. Regardless of whether an application found in the ports tree is installed by building or simply installed through pre-compiled packages, the resulting installed application is the same. In fact, there is no difference between the pre-compiled packages made available & the packages one can create locally.

More information on the packages & ports system can be found in Section 15 of the FAQ:

http://openbsd.org/faq/faq15.html

You will save yourself a lot of future grief by familiarizing yourself with all of the information found in the FAQ.
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