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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
Code:
tar -xjvf opera-12.16-1860.i386.linux.tar.bz2
cd into opera-12.16-1860.i386.linux and
Code:
sh install
haven't tried it just looked to see what is in the download file so take it for what it is worth.
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.
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.
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.
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