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Vendor:

opera.com

License:

non-free
(copyright)

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quality:

Version reviewed: 10.62.6438

Download

signed APT

(./)

Source:

not-available

X-(

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

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Legend: (./) = Pass ; X-( = 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
    ## use "stable" instead of distribution name
    deb http://deb.opera.com/opera stable non-free

then run :

  • aptitude update

Now, we are going to trust Opera :

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

Finally, install opera :

  • ## re-update (to acknowledge the key)
    aptitude update
    ## then install
    aptitude 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_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

Java

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)

See also

Alternative browsers

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