Opera not installing correctly

[Robert Stoffers]

On Thu, 2005-11-24 at 10:31 +0100, Oscar wrote:
> You might want to try this method from the forums - it fixed my opera without having to install debian packages :)
> 
> http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=78626
> 
> Oscar
> 
> On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 18:14:30 -0600
> webguy <webguytx at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hey,
> > 
> > I have Ubuntu 5.10 and Opera will not install correctly. Below is the 
> > output I recieved today when I tried to install it with apt-get install.
> > 
> > sudo apt-get install opera
> > Reading package lists... Done
> > Building dependency tree... Done
> > Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
> > requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
> > distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
> > or been moved out of Incoming.
> > 
> > Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
> > the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
> > that package should be filed.
> > The following information may help to resolve the situation:
> > 
> > The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> >   opera: Depends: libqt3c102-mt but it is not installable
> > E: Broken packages
> > robert at webguy:~$ sudo apt-get install libqt3c102-mt
> > Reading package lists... Done
> > Building dependency tree... Done
> > Package libqt3c102-mt is not available, but is referred to by another 
> > package.
> > This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
> > is only available from another source
> > However the following packages replace it:
> >   libqt3-mt
> > E: Package libqt3c102-mt has no installation candidate
> > 
> > Here is my /etc/apt/sources.list file:
> > 
> > #deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 5.10 _Breezy Badger_ - Release i386 (20051012)]/ 
> > breezy main restricted
> > 
> > deb http://deb.opera.com/opera/ stable non-free
> > 
> > ## Uncomment the following two lines to fetch updated software from the 
> > network
> > deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy main restricted
> > deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy main restricted
> > 
> > ## Uncomment the following two lines to fetch major bug fix updates produced
> > ## after the final release of the distribution.
> > deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-updates main restricted
> > deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-updates main restricted
> > 
> > ## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'universe'
> > ## repository.
> > 
> > deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy universe
> > deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy universe
> > 
> > ## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'backports'
> > ## repository.
> > 
> > deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-backports main restricted 
> > universe multiverse
> > deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-backports main 
> > restricted universe multiverse
> > 
> > deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-security main restricted
> > deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-security main restricted
> > 
> > deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-security universe
> > deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-security universe
> > 
> > deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ breezy universe
> > 
> > deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-security main restricted
> > deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-security main restricted
> > 
> > deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-security universe
> > deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-security universe
> > 
> > 
> > Hope you can help
> > 
> > webguy
> > 
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I just installed the libqt3-mt package using apt-get then used dpkg with
--force-depends on the package from the Opera website. It then installed
and worked fine. The libqt3-mt used to be called something else which
the Opera package depended on (can now can't find).

-- 
Robert Stoffers
Author/Maintainer - Ubuntu Starter Guide
Ubuntu Documentation Team