• Opera browser

    From philo@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jun 30 21:49:51 2024
    Rarely use it but always think it's nice to have a few browsers.

    It worked fine on Ubuntu 22.04

    Today was the first time I tried it since I upgraded to 24.04

    It was non functional so I uninstalled it.

    My plan was simply to use Synaptic to reinstall but it was not there.


    Downloaded it directly from Opera but it was not installable due to libglib2.0-0 being needed.

    Synaptic lists it but says it's no longer available.


    Just curious if anyone has gotten Opera working in 24.04


    Firefox, Brave Browser, Chromium and Tor ...no problems

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  • From azigni@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jul 1 04:43:16 2024
    Try these commands for libglib2.0-0:

    sudo apt-get update -y

    sudo apt-get install -y libglib2.0-0



    Install opera web browser

    Opera is a popular web browser that offers a fast, secure, and feature-
    rich browsing experience. Here are the steps to install Opera on various
    Linux distributions:

    Method 1: Installing Opera from the Official Website

    Visit the Opera website and click on the “Download” button.

    Select the Linux version (DEB or RPM) that matches your distribution.

    Download the package to your computer.

    Open a terminal and navigate to the directory where you downloaded the
    package.

    Run the command sudo dpkg -i opera-stable_69.0.3686.77_amd64.deb (for
    DEB) to install the browser.

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  • From Mike Easter@21:1/5 to philo on Sun Jun 30 21:26:18 2024
    philo wrote:
    Just curious if anyone has gotten Opera working in 24.04

    I haven't done that, but here's some info about Opera 111 for Ub.

    - Ub is partial to snap stuff; it is available in snap store
    - I haven't tested installing the current opera .deb from opera site in
    Ub 24.04
    - Alternatively you could add the opera repo to Ub and install it that
    way w/ your synaptic

    Some blog sites (itsfoss) dislike opera for:
    Personally, I do not use Opera. It is not open source. Its so-called
    free-VPN is not that good (it’s hardly even a VPN). After its
    acquisition by a Chinese group, transparency took another hit. It
    collects a vast amount of data, the same as Alibaba’s UC Browser.


    --
    Mike Easter

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  • From philo@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jul 1 10:12:23 2024
    Yep.
    Tried all of that .

    Problem is,there is a slightly newer library now that Opera will not
    accept.

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  • From philo@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jul 1 10:23:54 2024
    It's a browser I generally do not use but still,I like to have spares.
    Think I'll see how Fedora handles it.

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  • From Philo@21:1/5 to Marco Moock on Mon Jul 1 05:44:58 2024
    On 7/1/24 5:40 AM, Marco Moock wrote:
    On 30.06.2024 um 21:49 Uhr philo wrote:

    Downloaded it directly from Opera but it was not installable due to
    libglib2.0-0 being needed.

    Debian (Ubuntu is based on it) did the t64 transition and replaced some packages with another name. Ubuntu (accidentally?) took them over. https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=libglib2.0-0

    Because the package depends on the name without t64, the dependency
    won't be met.

    Please file a bug report in Ubuntu for that package on Launchpad.



    Indeed, I filed a bug report and at least Opera made it to do so and was
    pretty thorough about asking for info.

    FWIW: I am now on my Fedora machine and it installed Opera in a matter
    of seconds with no problems.

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  • From Marco Moock@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jul 1 12:40:19 2024
    On 30.06.2024 um 21:49 Uhr philo wrote:

    Downloaded it directly from Opera but it was not installable due to libglib2.0-0 being needed.

    Debian (Ubuntu is based on it) did the t64 transition and replaced some packages with another name. Ubuntu (accidentally?) took them over. https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=libglib2.0-0

    Because the package depends on the name without t64, the dependency
    won't be met.

    Please file a bug report in Ubuntu for that package on Launchpad.

    --
    kind regards
    Marco

    Send spam to 1719776991muell@cartoonies.org

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