How to install Mozilla Thunderbird and Opera browser in Backtrack 3

Check my previous post on how to install slapt-get in BackTrack 3.

Now, you can use slapt-get to install packages from the slackware repositories. To install mozilla-thunderbird:

Make sure it exists in the repositories:

slapt-get --search thunderbird

if you find it, use the install parameter to install:

slapt-get --install mozilla-thunderbird-2.0.0.21-i686-1

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For Opera, goto www.opera.com/download and download the latest tar.gz for Slackware.

untar the file:
tar -xvzf opera-9.64.gcc4-shared-qt3.i386.tar.gz
go into the folder and run install.sh
untar
That’s it !

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