The Importance of a Shortcut

Finally got Opera running on the laptop.
How did I manage it?
Since the RPM installation routine had failed, taking cue from the Flock installation, I simply made a copy of the Flock shortcut, substituted the paths to the opera program and program directory and saved it. That's it.
The important thing is that directly clicking on the opera.sh shell script does not launch the program. Surprisingly, the shortcut points to this very script.  I guess the shell script  does not like to be launched outside the terminal. Though trying to run the opera command from the  terminal gives an error that the binary is in the wrong place.
In the meantime I also downloaded the suse version of libstdc++. Could this have made a difference? I think not.