Installing software in user friendly way

[Patricia Fraser]

Hi Renato,

> Sure, I understand. It is quite nice to have a server loaded with
> updatable sw, but there is life out there and I need the opera
> browser. And the question remains. I need a simple way to install it.

Opera provides a .deb package; download it and in a terminal use "sudo 
dpkg -i opera(whatever).deb and away you go. 

Cheers,
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