Vendor:	opera.com
License:	non-free (copyright)

quality:
Version reviewed: 9.64.2480.gcc4.qt3
Download	signed APT
Source:	not-available
Lintian:	minor errors
Control scripts	Yes. looks clean.
Languages:	be, bg, cs, da, de, el, en, en-GB, es-ES, es-LA, et, fi, fr, fr-CA, fy, hi, hr, hu, id, it, ja, ka, ko, lt, mk, nb, nl, nn, pl, pt, pt-BR, ru, sv, ta, te, tr, uk, zh-cn, zh-tw
Architectures:	i386 amd64 sparc powerpc	-
Legend: = Pass ; = Bad

Installing and using Opera web browser under Debian.

Opera is a non-free (proprietary) software. It isn't supported by Debian. It's probably wiser to use a supported web browser !

Note for web developers: This page explains how to use the released version of Opera. However, Opera also provides snapshots of development version (i.e Not for production use...). see http://deb.opera.com/.

Installation

The recommended way to install opera, is to add Opera's package repository in your /etc/apt/sources.list. This is documented in Opera's knowledge base, as well as here:

## Add this line for Opera browser
## if needed, replace lenny with etch,stable,testing,squeeze,unstable...
deb http://deb.opera.com/opera lenny non-free

then run :

apt-update
[..]
Get:4 http://deb.opera.com lenny Release.gpg [189B]
Ign http://deb.opera.com lenny/non-free Translation-en_US
[..]
Get:5 http://deb.opera.com lenny Release [855B]
Ign http://deb.opera.com lenny Release
[..]
Ign http://deb.opera.com lenny/non-free Packages
[..]
Get:6 http://deb.opera.com lenny/non-free Packages [714B]
[..]
Fetched 1760B in 0s (1835B/s)
Reading package lists... Done
W: GPG error: http://deb.opera.com lenny Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 033431536A423791
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems

Now, we are going to trust Opera :

gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-key 9D1A0061
gpg: requesting key 9D1A0061 from hkp server subkeys.pgp.net
gpg: key 9D1A0061: public key "Opera Software Archive Automatic Signing Key <hostmaster@opera.com>" imported
gpg: 3 marginal(s) needed, 1 complete(s) needed, classic trust model
gpg: depth: 0  valid:   1  signed:   0  trust: 0-, 0q, 0n, 0m, 0f, 1u
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:               imported: 1

Let's list the keys we have :

gpg --fingerprint 9D1A0061
pub   1024D/9D1A0061 2009-08-31 [expires: 2011-01-23]
      Key fingerprint = 8526 E45F AF83 DE2F 634C  1909 F9A2 F76A 9D1A 0061
uid                  Opera Software Archive Automatic Signing Key 2010 <packager@opera.com>
sub   4096g/87DEACAE 2009-08-31 [expires: 2011-01-23]

Finally, the command to actually get apt to trust opera :

gpg --armor --export 9D1A0061 | apt-key add -
OK

and finally, install opera :

## re-update (to acknowledge the key)
apt-get update
##then install
apt-get install opera

The message WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated! occurs if you forgot to install the keys or to re-update the repository (apt-get update)..

Manual Installation

Opera software is also providing the packages individually.

This solution isn't recommended : You'll have to download the file manually (this time, and every time there's a security update).

Download the package from Opera/Linux download page

You can save it in /tmp.

Open a command line as root, an run dpkg -i followed by the name of the .deb file you have downloaded.

  dpkg -i /tmp/opera_9.25-20071214.6-shared-qt_en_i386.deb
Selecting previously deselected package opera.
(Reading database ... 148966 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking opera (from .../opera_9.25-20071214.6-shared-qt_en_i386.deb) ...
Setting up opera (9.25-20071214.6) ...

If it fails, it's probably because of a missing dependency. To install libqt3-mt, run :

```
apt-get install libqt3-mt
```

Plugins

Flashplugin

Adobe's Version test for Adobe Flash Player

Java

Sun's Test your Java Virtual Machine (JVM)

Package Review

Privacy

Queries for most provided search engines go through opera.com, except Google (default search) and Wikipedia, and certain localized search providers. See /usr/share/opera/locale/*/search.ini and Opera's privacy policy

Paths and Files

The packages itself puts most of the files in usual/expected places ( /usr/sbin ; /usr/share/opera ; /usr/share/doc ; /usr/lib/opera/plugins...)
- /usr/share/opera contains many files that should be at other location. it shoudln't hurt though.

User files Path
Preferences	/home/$USER/.opera/opera6.ini
Saved session	/home/$USER/.opera/opera.win
Bookmarks	/home/$USER/.opera/opera6.adr
Opera directory	/home/$USER/.opera/
Cache	/home/$USER/.opera/cache4/
Mail directory	/home/$USER/.opera/mail/
User CSS directory	/home/$USER/.opera/styles/user/
System wide files
Plug-in path	/usr/lib/opera/plugins /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
Config files	/etc/opera6rc /etc/opera6rc.fixed

Lintian check

lintian opera_9.64.2480.gcc4.qt3_i386.deb:

W: opera: extra-license-file usr/share/opera/locale/be/license.txt
W: opera: extra-license-file usr/share/opera/locale/bg/license.txt
W: opera: extra-license-file usr/share/opera/locale/cs/license.txt
W: opera: extra-license-file usr/share/opera/locale/da/license.txt
W: opera: extra-license-file usr/share/opera/locale/de/license.txt
W: opera: extra-license-file usr/share/opera/locale/el/license.txt
W: opera: extra-license-file usr/share/opera/locale/en-GB/license.txt
W: opera: extra-license-file usr/share/opera/locale/en/license.txt
W: opera: extra-license-file usr/share/opera/locale/es-ES/license.txt
W: opera: extra-license-file usr/share/opera/locale/es-LA/license.txt
W: opera: extra-license-file usr/share/opera/locale/et/license.txt
W: opera: extra-license-file usr/share/opera/locale/fi/license.txt
W: opera: extra-license-file usr/share/opera/locale/fr-CA/license.txt
W: opera: extra-license-file usr/share/opera/locale/fr/license.txt
W: opera: extra-license-file usr/share/opera/locale/fy/license.txt
W: opera: extra-license-file usr/share/opera/locale/hi/license.txt
W: opera: extra-license-file usr/share/opera/locale/hr/license.txt
W: opera: extra-license-file usr/share/opera/locale/hu/license.txt
W: opera: extra-license-file usr/share/opera/locale/id/license.txt
W: opera: extra-license-file usr/share/opera/locale/it/license.txt
W: opera: extra-license-file usr/share/opera/locale/ja/license.txt
W: opera: extra-license-file usr/share/opera/locale/ka/license.txt
W: opera: extra-license-file usr/share/opera/locale/ko/license.txt
W: opera: extra-license-file usr/share/opera/locale/lt/license.txt
W: opera: extra-license-file usr/share/opera/locale/mk/license.txt
W: opera: extra-license-file usr/share/opera/locale/nb/license.txt
W: opera: extra-license-file usr/share/opera/locale/nl/license.txt
W: opera: extra-license-file usr/share/opera/locale/nn/license.txt
W: opera: extra-license-file usr/share/opera/locale/pl/license.txt
W: opera: extra-license-file usr/share/opera/locale/pt-BR/license.txt
W: opera: extra-license-file usr/share/opera/locale/pt/license.txt
W: opera: extra-license-file usr/share/opera/locale/ru/license.txt
W: opera: extra-license-file usr/share/opera/locale/sv/license.txt
W: opera: extra-license-file usr/share/opera/locale/ta/license.txt
W: opera: extra-license-file usr/share/opera/locale/te/license.txt
W: opera: extra-license-file usr/share/opera/locale/tr/license.txt
W: opera: extra-license-file usr/share/opera/locale/uk/license.txt
W: opera: extra-license-file usr/share/opera/locale/zh-cn/license.txt
W: opera: extra-license-file usr/share/opera/locale/zh-tw/license.txt
W: opera: maintainer-script-ignores-errors prerm
W: opera: maintainer-script-ignores-errors postrm
W: opera: possible-bashism-in-maintainer-script postinst:14 'then echo -e'
W: opera: possible-bashism-in-maintainer-script postinst:19 '       echo -e'
W: opera: syntax-error-in-debian-changelog line 8 "unrecognised line"
W: opera: syntax-error-in-debian-changelog line 10 "found start of entry where expected more change data or trailer"
W: opera: syntax-error-in-debian-changelog line 16 "badly formatted trailer line"
W: opera: latest-debian-changelog-entry-changed-to-native
E: opera: depends-on-obsolete-package suggests: cupsys-client

Package Dependencies

#dpkg -f opera_9.63.2474.gcc4.qt3_i386.deb Depends Pre-Depends Conflicts Provides

Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.3), xlib6g (>= 3.3.6) | xlibs | libxmu6, libqt3-mt (>= 3.3.4), libstdc++6
Conflicts: opera-static
Provides: www-browser

License

You'll have to accept... once you have installed the program !

Here's a copy of the license, as of 2007-12-30 (shipped with Opera version 9.25)