installing opera 9.6 and kopete on hardy heron?

**ashwinhgtx** · February 22nd, 2009

Originally Posted by bilmas

i just tried to install opera and this is what i got:

Code:

Opera cannot be installed on your computer type (i386)

Either the application requires special hardware features or the vendor decided to not support your computer type.

Paste the output of this command.

Code:

uname-a

**bilmas** · February 22nd, 2009

Originally Posted by ashwinhgtx

Paste the output of this command.

Code:

uname-a

in terminal?

**kmac** · February 22nd, 2009

Originally Posted by bilmas

in terminal?

Yes sir.

**bilmas** · February 22nd, 2009

Originally Posted by kmac

Yes sir.

Code:

david@david-desktop:~$ uname-a
bash: uname-a: command not found
david@david-desktop:~$

**kmac** · February 22nd, 2009

Originally Posted by ashwinhgtx

Paste the output of this command.

Code:

uname-a

Sorry, he meant

Code:

uname -a

with a space.

**bilmas** · February 22nd, 2009

Code:

Linux david-desktop 2.6.24-23-generic #1 SMP Mon Jan 26 00:13:11 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

**ashwinhgtx** · February 22nd, 2009

Originally Posted by kmac

Sorry, he meant

Code:

uname -a

with a space.

Sorry about that typo

**bilmas** · February 22nd, 2009

Originally Posted by bilmas

Code:

Linux david-desktop 2.6.24-23-generic #1 SMP Mon Jan 26 00:13:11 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

any diagnosis on this one?

**slidersv** · March 16th, 2009

Originally Posted by bilmas

any diagnosis on this one?

Yes, I have the same problem.
I am getting this message when trying to install through "Add/Remove":

Code:

Opera cannot be installed on your computer type (i386)

Either the application requires special hardware features or the vendor decided to not support your computer type.

I have
atlas@u238:~$ uname -a
Linux u238 2.6.24-19-generic #1 SMP Wed Aug 20 22:56:21 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
on Lenovo T61 and don't understand this error.

**beau420** · March 22nd, 2009

I had the same problem using Add/Remove Programs from the menu. Tried to Add it...gave me a popup asking me to enable a third party install....I said sure....then gave me the same error:

Opera cannot be installed on your computer type (i386)

Same error when installing from terminal:

michael@michael-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install opera
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package opera is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package opera has no installation candidate

michael@michael-desktop:~$ uname -a
Linux michael-desktop 2.6.24-23-generic #1 SMP Mon Jan 26 00:13:11 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

So I went to http://www.opera.com/download/index.dml?platform=linux and downloaded Opera...ran .deb file...opened installation installed fine. Might be the mirror for Opera package or Opera has a newer install