HOWTO: Get Plugins to work in Opera 8.50

[cowlip]

Hi, the etch deb that Opera has doesn't have all the opera-motif-wrappers, so plugins won't work. Make sure you have that Breezy/etch deb installed beforehand.

So go to opera.com/download and check "download in .tar.gz". Extract it.

cd opera-8.50-20050916.5-shared-qt.i386-en/plugins/

then do this in the terminal:

sudo mv operamotifwrapper-* /usr/lib/opera/8.50-20050916.6/plugins/

then do this:

sudo apt-get install openmotif libmotif3 lesstif2 motif-clients

and the plugin warning dialog should go away

[laltopi]

Can you also post howto get opera in the first place?

[cowlip]

OK, well I would just add this to /etc/apt/sources.list with nano

deb http://deb.opera.com/opera/ etch nonfree

And then sudo apt-get install opera

[Roybotnik]

Hi there, dunno if this is related or not but is there a way to use the mplayer plugin in opera? I followed this guide but im not sure what exactly it was supposed to do =). I would rather use opera than firefox since firefox crashes so much, but alas I have no multimedia playback for it. Also btw, when I tried apt-getting openmotif and motifclients, the packages weren't found(I have all the repos enabled).

[cowlip]

Hi there, dunno if this is related or not but is there a way to use the mplayer plugin in opera? I followed this guide but im not sure what exactly it was supposed to do =). I would rather use opera than firefox since firefox crashes so much, but alas I have no multimedia playback for it. Also btw, when I tried apt-getting openmotif and motifclients, the packages weren't found(I have all the repos enabled).

yes they should have a dash between them...

also it's because people in the breezy development forum said that an opera plugin warning never went away, so flash et al wouldn't work.

(i don't know about mplayer)

[Roybotnik]

yes they should have a dash between them...

also it's because people in the breezy development forum said that an opera plugin warning never went away, so flash et al wouldn't work.

(i don't know about mplayer)

Hmm. Well flash and adobe reader seem to be working, but none of my other mozilla/firefox plugins do(mplayer, java). Also I was able to get motif-clients put putting a dash in...but openmotif can't be found(also tried searching for open motif in synaptic, no luck).

[phend-one]

What's this "breezy etch deb" you are referring to? I'm not catching it.

[cowlip]

What's this "breezy etch deb" you are referring to? I'm not catching it.

Well, the breezy .deb seems to be the one for a Debian version called "etch"

if plugins are working ok, then you don't need to worry abou this post Java is a separate issue, though.

[phend-one]

Oh, you mean the file that you download using the dropdown box on the Opera.com website?

"opera_8.50-20050916.6-shared-qt_en_etch_i386.deb"

I can't install Opera using the above repository. Is it down? It seems opera.com is down as well? Maybe it's just my connection?


I have both:
"opera_8.50-20050916.6-shared-qt_en_etch_i386.deb"
"opera-8.50-20050916.6-shared-qt.i386-en.tar.gz"

but when I try to: "sudo dpkg -i opera_8.50-20050916.6-shared-qt_en_etch_i386.deb", it gives me a bunch of errors saying there's some stuff missing and the installation is aborted?

Any help on this?

[Lars A E]

try the static deb-package. It will not give you any trouble.