Mageia 8 - How to install the Opera?

[Gilberto F da Silva]

I'm back in Mageia 8. I couldn't use Mageia 8 Alpha1. I have difficulty
installing some programs. One of them is Opera. It is not in the Mageia
repositories and I didn't find a generic pack to Linux.

[David W. Hodgins]

Post by Gilberto F da Silva
I'm back in Mageia 8. I couldn't use Mageia 8 Alpha1. I have difficulty
installing some programs. One of them is Opera. It is not in the Mageia
repositories and I didn't find a generic pack to Linux.

The last version of opera packaged for Mageia was 12.16 for Mageia 4, the
version I use for email, usenet, mailing lists, and usenet, and limited
browsing.

The current opera is not packaged for Mageia as the overhead of adding another
chromium based browser isn't worth the work to maintain.

For the current version there's an rpm available
https://download5.operacdn.com/pub/opera/desktop/94.0.4606.38/linux/opera-stable_94.0.4606.38_amd64.rpm

I've tested installing it using urpmi ./opera*.rpm on both m8 and m9 installs
and the browser is working.

Regards, Dave Hodgins

[Jim]

Post by David W. Hodgins

Post by Gilberto F da Silva
I'm back in Mageia 8. I couldn't use Mageia 8 Alpha1. I have difficulty
installing some programs. One of them is Opera. It is not in the Mageia
repositories and I didn't find a generic pack to Linux.

<snip>

Post by David W. Hodgins
The current opera is not packaged for Mageia as the overhead of adding another
chromium based browser isn't worth the work to maintain.
For the current version there's an rpm available
https://download5.operacdn.com/pub/opera/desktop/94.0.4606.38/linux/opera-stable_94.0.4606.38_amd64.rpm
I've tested installing it using urpmi ./opera*.rpm on both m8 and m9 installs
and the browser is working.
Regards, Dave Hodgins

Go to https://www.opera.com/download


Scroll down to Opera Browser for Linux

Go across to Prefer another package? RPM / SNAP . Click on RPM.

Opera-stable....rpm should start downloading.


Cheers!

jim b.

[Gilberto F da Silva]

Post by David W. Hodgins

Post by Gilberto F da Silva
I'm back in Mageia 8. I couldn't use Mageia 8 Alpha1. I have difficulty
installing some programs. One of them is Opera. It is not in the Mageia
repositories and I didn't find a generic pack to Linux.

The last version of opera packaged for Mageia was 12.16 for Mageia 4, the
version I use for email, usenet, mailing lists, and usenet, and limited
browsing.
The current opera is not packaged for Mageia as the overhead of adding another
chromium based browser isn't worth the work to maintain.

The Opera browser has the differential of having a VPN already
configured. Most of the time I use Brave. Brave is also not packaged
for Mageia but there is an AppImage package for it.

[Doug Laidlaw]

Post by Gilberto F da Silva

Post by David W. Hodgins

Post by Gilberto F da Silva
I'm back in Mageia 8. I couldn't use Mageia 8 Alpha1. I have difficulty
installing some programs. One of them is Opera. It is not in the Mageia
repositories and I didn't find a generic pack to Linux.

The last version of opera packaged for Mageia was 12.16 for Mageia 4, the
version I use for email, usenet, mailing lists, and usenet, and limited
browsing.
The current opera is not packaged for Mageia as the overhead of adding another
chromium based browser isn't worth the work to maintain.

The Opera browser has the differential of having a VPN already
configured. Most of the time I use Brave. Brave is also not packaged
for Mageia but there is an AppImage package for it.

Recently, I could find no package of Opera that Mageia could install. I
simply gave up.

[marchugo]

Post by Gilberto F da Silva

On Wed, 28 Dec 2022 17:57:56 -0500, Gilberto F da Silva

    I'm back in Mageia 8. I couldn't use Mageia 8 Alpha1. I have
difficulty
installing some programs. One of them is Opera. It is not in the Mageia
repositories and I didn't find a generic pack to Linux.

The last version of opera packaged for Mageia was 12.16 for Mageia 4, the
version I use for email, usenet, mailing lists, and usenet, and limited
browsing.
The current opera is not packaged for Mageia as the overhead of adding another
chromium based browser isn't worth the work to maintain.

The Opera browser has the differential of having a VPN already
configured. Most of the time I use Brave. Brave is also not packaged
for Mageia but there is an AppImage package for it.

Recently, I could find no package of Opera that Mageia could install.  I
simply gave up.

Today I successfully installed Opera for Linux 94.0.4606.38, RPM from
Opera.com.

During installation RPM shows a message of unsigned packages, just
ignore that and click ok, then everything works fine.

Do not use the default download offer of the deb. package, but go to the

Downloads section > For Computers > Opera > Opera Browser for Linux.

(there are also downloads for Windows, Mac, Android, Chromebook etc.)

Marc.

[Doug Laidlaw]

Post by marchugo

Post by Doug Laidlaw

Post by Gilberto F da Silva

On Wed, 28 Dec 2022 17:57:56 -0500, Gilberto F da Silva

    I'm back in Mageia 8. I couldn't use Mageia 8 Alpha1. I have
difficulty
installing some programs. One of them is Opera. It is not in the Mageia
repositories and I didn't find a generic pack to Linux.

The last version of opera packaged for Mageia was 12.16 for Mageia 4, the
version I use for email, usenet, mailing lists, and usenet, and limited
browsing.
The current opera is not packaged for Mageia as the overhead of adding another
chromium based browser isn't worth the work to maintain.

The Opera browser has the differential of having a VPN already
configured. Most of the time I use Brave. Brave is also not packaged
for Mageia but there is an AppImage package for it.

Recently, I could find no package of Opera that Mageia could install.
I simply gave up.

Today I successfully installed Opera for Linux 94.0.4606.38, RPM from
Opera.com.
During installation RPM shows a message of unsigned packages, just
ignore that and click ok, then everything works fine.
Do not use the default download offer of the deb. package, but go to the

Post by Doug Laidlaw
Downloads section >  For Computers > Opera > Opera Browser for Linux.

(there are also downloads for Windows, Mac, Android, Chromebook etc.)
Marc.

Worth knowing. The warning about "unsigned messages" is a security
check, but since you downloaded from the official Opera site, you should
have nothing to worry about. The default .deb package can be converted
to a RPM with alien, but having an RPM created by Opera themselves is
better. Ubuntu and its derivatives seem to be the most popular distros,
so it seems odd that the RPM package was selected as the preferred format.

[Gilberto F da Silva]

Post by marchugo

Post by Gilberto F da Silva

On Wed, 28 Dec 2022 17:57:56 -0500, Gilberto F da Silva

    I'm back in Mageia 8. I couldn't use Mageia 8 Alpha1. I have
difficulty
installing some programs. One of them is Opera. It is not in the Mageia
repositories and I didn't find a generic pack to Linux.

The last version of opera packaged for Mageia was 12.16 for Mageia 4, the
version I use for email, usenet, mailing lists, and usenet, and limited
browsing.
The current opera is not packaged for Mageia as the overhead of adding another
chromium based browser isn't worth the work to maintain.

The Opera browser has the differential of having a VPN already
configured. Most of the time I use Brave. Brave is also not packaged
for Mageia but there is an AppImage package for it.

Recently, I could find no package of Opera that Mageia could install. 
I simply gave up.

Today I successfully installed Opera for Linux 94.0.4606.38, RPM from
Opera.com.
During installation RPM shows a message of unsigned packages, just
ignore that and click ok, then everything works fine.
Do not use the default download offer of the deb. package, but go to the

Downloads section >  For Computers > Opera > Opera Browser for Linux.

(there are also downloads for Windows, Mac, Android, Chromebook etc.)

It didn't work here.