On 10/01/15 11:54 AM, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote:
Hi, it seems that lst month there was a new stable version of Opera for Linux
released, but for Ubuntu only. One of the Opera devs has a blog about
installing it on non-Debian-based distros
http://ruario.ghost.io/2014/12/19/installing-opera-on-distributions-other-than-debian-ubuntu-or-derivatives/
but it doesn't say how to install it on Debian itself. I tried just
installing the Ubuntu package but that required a version of libc6 more
advances than what's on Debian without getting from Experimental, and that
seems like a bad idea anyway. The version from Debian is still 12.16 which is
years old.
Is there a way to install this on Debian. Im running Wheezy.
Thanks.
Jen
Opera is non-free and apparently no one is maintaining a Debian package
for it. However I believe that Opera may still have a debian repository.
Try adding
deb http://deb.opera.com/opera stable non-free
to your /etc/apt/sources.list file, then add the repository key
wget -O - http://deb.opera.com/archive.key | apt-key add -
and do an update. You should then be able to install Opera. Or you may
run into the same libc6 problem. In this latter case, you can try
installing libc6 from testing.
If that looks like it may leave you with a lot of broken packages, you
could simply upgrade to Jessie. Jessie is pretty stable but not quite as
bulletproof as Wheezy (although I have as many problems with Wheezy as I
do with Jessie, and I'm not using a GUI on my Wheezy installs).
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