Opera

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

quality:
Version reviewed: 10.62.6438
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 https://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
## use "stable" instead of distribution name
deb http://deb.opera.com/opera-stable/ stable non-free

then run :

```
aptitude update
```

Now, we are going to trust Opera :

wget -O - https://deb.opera.com/archive.key | apt-key add -

$/!\$ Be carreful, apt-key is deprecated; you should not use it anymore!

Finally, install opera :

## re-update (to acknowledge the key)
aptitude update
## then install
aptitude install opera-stable

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.

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_10.62.6438_i386.deb
```

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

```
aptitude install libqt3-mt
```

Plugins

Flashplugin

$/!\$ Since Adobe no longer supports Flash Player after December 31, 2020 and blocked Flash content from running in Flash Player beginning January 12, 2021, Adobe strongly recommends all users immediately uninstall Flash Player to help protect their systems.

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_10.62.6438_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_10.62.6438_i386.deb Depends Pre-Depends Conflicts Provides

Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7-1), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.4.0), libfreetype6 (>= 2.3.5), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.16.0), libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0 (>= 0.10.16), libgstreamer0.10-0 (>= 0.10.15), libice6 (>= 1:1.0.0), libsm6, libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1), libx11-6, libxext6, libxft2 (>> 2.1.1), libxml2 (>= 2.6.27), libxrender1, libxt6, zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4), gstreamer0.10-plugins-good, libxft2, libxrender1, debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0
Recommends: ttf-linux-libertine | ttf-freefont | ttf-dejavu | ttf-mscorefonts-installer
Suggests: flashplugin-nonfree, cups-client
Provides: www-browser, mail-reader, imap-client, news-reader

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)