install opera
 

slackware 14.1 x64

Can someone please tell me how to install opera browser?

Really opera; something that supplies a package for Slackware ?

http://docs.slackware.com/slackware:opera

Ah I guess the newer versions aren't packaged for everything. You can always just get the deb (this seems to be the only thing accessible within my minute of reaserch) and either a tool like dev2tgz or have a look at how google chrome is handled.. The slackbuild.

On the opera home page click on opera for computers at bottom of screen, on second screen select slackware then download.
After downloading open a terminal then cd into opera-12.16-1860.i386.linux and haven't tried it just looked to see what is in the download file so take it for what it is worth.

The easiest way would be to use the slackbuild script from the good people at slackbuilds.org.

http://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.1/network/opera/

Edit: added later. Check out the sbopkg utility as it makes installing packages from slackbuilds.org dead simple.

http://www.sbopkg.org/

I have to agree with hitest, slackbuilds is probably the best way to go. It will make it easier to uninstall opera later, if you so desire.

I recommend using ruario's latest-opera script to get the latest version. It will download the latest version of Opera (v 28) and repackage it as a Slackware package that you an install/uninstall at will. The sbopkg only downloads version 12.

Thanks for the tip. :)

Thanks frankiej. Nice to know someone was aware of this. Seems people are more familiar with my Chrome and Firefox scripts. Which is kinda funny.

I also list various install options on on my blog. All of which should be linked from my signature, IIRC.

If you want to try beta or developer versions you can use my install-opera script. It can install from any of our three streams (stable, beta, developer).

It will fetch the latest version from the stream of your choice and install it into /usr/local and create (and install) an uninstall script alongside.

You can have Opera stable, developer and beta installed together. They will not touch each other's files or profiles. Obviously I test all of this stuff on Slackware, since I am a Slackware user. ;)

There is also this standalone-opera script if you just want to try Opera (from any stream) without installing it. It will extract Opera to a folder and also store its profile and cache within that folder, making it entirely self-contained.

Note: If you run the script you may be surprised in that you will be prompted for a root password. This is required to setup the appropriate permissions for the sandbox application found in all Chromium based browsers. If you run Opera beta or developer and a Linux kernel of 3.17 or newer, you can comment this section out of the script since the sandbox is able to use features found only in newer kernels to setup an appropriate sandbox, without needing elevated permissions.

If you want a 32-Bit version we now have it: http://blogs.opera.com/desktop/2015/...-32-bit-linux/