installing opera

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if you have not noticed, this is my ubuntu master thesis....
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1836890
check it out and share it with your friends =)

operas deb package is broken for me, so i am installing from tar.bz

http://www.opera.com/download/get.pl?id=34047&location=380&nothanks=yes&sub=marine

is where i nabbed my bz from

upon receipt of the tarball i

alt + f2

gnome-terminal

run

then drop this to my terminal



cd $HOME/Downloads
tar -xf opera-11.51-1087.x86_64.linux.tar.bz
cd $HOME/Downloads/opera-11.51-1087.x86_64.linux
sudo ./install


in the shell it will load a install script that asks a few questions.....

i answer the questions with

/usr

for my prefix

and everything else is enter enter enter then i clean my mess up by droppings this block of code



rm $HOME/Downloads/opera-11.51-1087.x86_64.linux.tar.bz
rm -rf $HOME/Downloads/opera-11.51-1087.x86_64.linux


and to load opera up its

alt + f2

opera

run