HOWTO: Install Opera in Ubuntu Hoary

[cowlip]

There is a Ubuntu-specific Opera .deb now - why is 8.02 linked to the sarge deb?

Thanks for the .desktop files and file-manager fix, those are great.

Hi, isn't that build static qt?

[Madpilot]

Hi, isn't that build static qt?

No idea, I've already deleted the 8.02 deb I pulled down a while ago.

What's a 'static build', anyway?

[sonic20]

Thank you for your instructions, but I have not been able to completely install Opera.

Everything appears to be going OK and I get no errors, but there are no icons to start the program.

I was able to start the program by going to a terminal and typing Opera.

Any help is appreciated, but I an really new and step by step appriciated. Using Gnome.

[raggamuffin]

Thank you for your instructions, but I have not been able to completely install Opera.

Everything appears to be going OK and I get no errors, but there are no icons to start the program.

I was able to start the program by going to a terminal and typing Opera.

Any help is appreciated, but I an really new and step by step appriciated. Using Gnome.

OK, I followed this guide (except that I omitted the last step, as I'm on Kubuntu) and everthing seemed to go okay...but when I try to run opera, all I get is this error message...

opera: Preference initialization failure. Generic failure (-1)

Anybody have any idea how to fix this?

[Phantasman]

Thanx, works great.

[iiJeebz]

[QUOTE=joh]This is the install instructions for the Opera Internet Suite (Web browser +++)
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Thanks so much... following the very limited instructions at Opera's site was hopeless, whereas yours worked perfectly first time (just had to change filename to current ver)

Now, if only I understood what I did, heh...

Thanks Again,

iiJ

[mcduck]

Thanks for great HOWTO. You had perfect timing, as opera.com was giving away free registration codes today and I finaly got a chance to test this browser.

Anyway, I'm not sure if I like this or hate it. Making it do things my way seems pretty impossible. And it uses Qt so it looks very bad, I've never found a good black Qt-theme to fit my GTK-theme.. And whatever I do, it won't use fonts I choose for menus.. And blocking ads seems to need some hacking.

I think I'll keep Opera anyway. In a month ore two I think I can make it usable

[Galoot]

Incidentally, If you love Opera like I do, you might want to make it your default browser and your default mail reader, too. Here's how to do that (in Gnome):

Go to System | Preferences | Preferred Applications

Under the Web Browser tab select "Custom" and, in the Command box, enter

opera -newpage "%s"

Under the Mail Reader tab select "Custom" and, in the Command box, enter

opera -newmail "%s"

[joh]

[QUOTE=Galoot]Incidentally, If you love Opera like I do, you might want to make it your default browser and your default mail reader, too. Here's how to do that (in Gnome):


Thanks! I added it to the HOWTO.

[majikstreet]

Opera is ugggggly!