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Opera doesn't seem to be listed in the repositories. I downloaded directly from the Opera website but can't find where it downloaded to on my system. I selected the tarball option from the website
I'm using SimplyMepis 8.5.03. I've used the 'find files' function but that doesn't find it either.
Well, thank you for your reply craigevil. Wish I could understand what it is about...
Anyway, I opened a terminal (with which I am totally unfamiliar) and entered the commands for the stable version of Mepis 8. All was going well until I found that the single stroke upright needed (a vertical slash, if you see what I mean) didn't work on my UK keyboard.
But I carried on only to find that Opera still did not reside in the repositories.
betula,
In the future when you first download Opera on a new install, download the deb file. This will download to the "Download Folder" in MEPIS 8.5, click on it and this will take you to gdebi.
gdebi will install Opera for you, make sure Opera repository is enabled in Synaptic and it should update along with your other updates after that.
Just a simpler way of doing things.
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