Opera removed from 9.04 repos?

[magmon]

I checked the add/remove for opera when firefox started acting up, and it seems to be gone. Is there a reason for it's removal? Is it incompatible or simply unpopular?

[ghindo]

I don't believe that Opera has ever been in the repositories.

[magmon]

Maybe my terminology is wrong then, but I know I could download it from the add/remove menu in 8.10.

[Majorix]

Opera has its own .deb repo, I installed Opera from there.

[seteshf]

Installing Opera from the standalone rpm/deb package will add their repository, it's how they implement their auto-upgrade on Linux.

[dmizer]

I don't believe that Opera has ever been in the repositories.

It hasn't. Since Opera is not OSS it can't be built by Ubuntu packagers for Ubuntu.

[Colonel Kilkenny]

It hasn't. Since Opera is not OSS it can't be built by Ubuntu packagers for Ubuntu.

Opera has been in Ubuntu 3rd party commercial (or whatever it was) repository.

[seteshf]

Opera has been in Ubuntu 3rd party commercial (or whatever it was) repository.

Yeah, they never let you install it on x86-64 systems though which sucked because you had to override dpkg to get the standalone DEB to work.

That's what I never understood about Debian packaging. x86-64 is just a superset of x86, not some completely foreign architecture. RPM doesn't _care_ if the user installs a x86 package, why exactly does Dpkg?

Thankfully Opera has an x86-64 native package now, and Ubuntu shouldn't really be packaging Opera anyway when Opera can do a better job managing their own repo.

[kostkon]

According to the ubuntu documentation page for Opera, you need to add the following line to your software sources list:

deb http://deb.opera.com/opera/ stable non-free

and to add the key, give the following in a terminal:

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

[jamest09]

Never used Opera and never intend to