F9 - repositories messed up, can't find Opera ?

Clint Dilks clintd at scms.waikato.ac.nz
Fri Jun 13 03:18:20 UTC 2008



linuxguy wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 10:02 +0930, Tim wrote:
>   
>> You have to get it directly from their website, and either do that
>> yourself for each update, or let it check for updates itself when you
>> use it.
>>     
>
> Thanks for the info.
>
> I did.  Opera 9.5 is simply outstanding.  The first Linux browser that
> handles youtube perfectly.
>
> So why isn't Opera part of the Fedora repository ?   Even the version
> that I installed was labeled for F8/KDE3.
>
>
>   

Fedora has strict policy relating to applications that can be included 
because of Licensing.

See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/LicensingGuidelines




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