Opera browser

[philo]

Rarely use it but always think it's nice to have a few browsers.

It worked fine on Ubuntu 22.04

Today was the first time I tried it since I upgraded to 24.04

It was non functional so I uninstalled it.

My plan was simply to use Synaptic to reinstall but it was not there.


Downloaded it directly from Opera but it was not installable due to
libglib2.0-0 being needed.

Synaptic lists it but says it's no longer available.


Just curious if anyone has gotten Opera working in 24.04


Firefox, Brave Browser, Chromium and Tor ...no problems

[Mike Easter]

Post by philo
Just curious if anyone has gotten Opera working in 24.04

I haven't done that, but here's some info about Opera 111 for Ub.

- Ub is partial to snap stuff; it is available in snap store
- I haven't tested installing the current opera .deb from opera site in
Ub 24.04
- Alternatively you could add the opera repo to Ub and install it that
way w/ your synaptic

Post by philo
Personally, I do not use Opera. It is not open source. Its so-called
free-VPN is not that good (it’s hardly even a VPN). After its
acquisition by a Chinese group, transparency took another hit. It
collects a vast amount of data, the same as Alibaba’s UC Browser.

[azigni]

Try these commands for libglib2.0-0:

sudo apt-get update -y

sudo apt-get install -y libglib2.0-0



Install opera web browser

Opera is a popular web browser that offers a fast, secure, and feature-
rich browsing experience. Here are the steps to install Opera on various
Linux distributions:

Method 1: Installing Opera from the Official Website

Visit the Opera website and click on the “Download” button.

Select the Linux version (DEB or RPM) that matches your distribution.

Download the package to your computer.

Open a terminal and navigate to the directory where you downloaded the
package.

Run the command sudo dpkg -i opera-stable_69.0.3686.77_amd64.deb (for
DEB) to install the browser.

[philo]

Yep.
Tried all of that .

Problem is,there is a slightly newer library now that Opera will not
accept.

[philo]

It's a browser I generally do not use but still,I like to have spares.
Think I'll see how Fedora handles it.

[Marco Moock]

Post by philo
Downloaded it directly from Opera but it was not installable due to
libglib2.0-0 being needed.

Debian (Ubuntu is based on it) did the t64 transition and replaced some
packages with another name. Ubuntu (accidentally?) took them over.
https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=libglib2.0-0

Because the package depends on the name without t64, the dependency
won't be met.

Please file a bug report in Ubuntu for that package on Launchpad.

[Philo]

Post by Marco Moock

Post by philo
Downloaded it directly from Opera but it was not installable due to
libglib2.0-0 being needed.

Debian (Ubuntu is based on it) did the t64 transition and replaced some
packages with another name. Ubuntu (accidentally?) took them over.
https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=libglib2.0-0
Because the package depends on the name without t64, the dependency
won't be met.
Please file a bug report in Ubuntu for that package on Launchpad.

Indeed, I filed a bug report and at least Opera made it to do so and was
pretty thorough about asking for info.

FWIW: I am now on my Fedora machine and it installed Opera in a matter
of seconds with no problems.