How to download Opera to Kubuntu 8.04 LTS?

[Reinhold Rumberger]

Am Dienstag 14 Dezember 2010, um 17:30:04 schrieb Alvin:
> On Tuesday 14 December 2010 10:42:52 Reinhold Rumberger wrote:
> > Am Dienstag 14 Dezember 2010, um 09:52:23 schrieb Alvin:
> > > On Saturday 11 December 2010 00:13:04 Larry Alkoff wrote:
> > > > I would like to add Opera to this computer
> > > > and have downloaded opera_10.63.6450_i386.deb.
> > > > 
> > > > When I try to load the file with:
> > > >    sudo dpkg -i opera_10.63.6450_i386.deb
> > > > 
> > > > I get complaints that
> > > > gstreamer0.10-plugins-good is not installed
> > > > and the installation stops.
> > > > 
> > > > There doesn't seem to be any such package in the repositories when I
> > > > invoke
> > > > 
> > > >     aptitude -vv show
> > > > 
> > > > which usually works to give information about a package in the
> > > > repositories.
> > > > 
> > > > How can I install Opera?
> > > 
> > > It's in main (maverick):
> > > $ aptitude show gstreamer0.10-plugins-good
> > > 
> > > So, just run:
> > > $ sudo aptitude install gstreamer0.10-plugins-good
> > 
> > According to the subject, he wants it for hardy, not maverick. According
> > to http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/gstreamer0.10-plugins-good it's in
> > the main security repo, which suggests that he isn't getting any
> > security updates, which I would see as a bigger problem than not being
> > able to install opera...
> 
> Oops, I read over that. I'm using Opera since before hardy, so yes, the
> necessary packages should be available on all Ubuntu versions.
> 
> If you install Opera, it'll also create cat
> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/opera.list
> 
> See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Kubuntu/Hardy for adding
> main back to your sources.

From what I gathered from packages.ubuntu.com, gstreamer0.10-plugins-good 
isn't in the normal main repo, only in the security updates. Hence my comment 
that Larry must've disabled it, meaning that he doesn't receive these updates.

OTOH he might consider upgrading to 10.04 or whatever was the latest LTS. That 
way, he shouldn't have these problems.

  --Reinhold