How to download Opera to Kubuntu 8.04 LTS?

[Clay Weber]

On Tuesday, December 14, 2010 12:43:59 pm Reinhold Rumberger wrote:
> 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]

While it is in Hardy's security updates, it also was moved to hardy-updates 
(recommended updates in Adept) , so that is also another place to look at 
enabling.

clay