Opera browser in Dapper

Cybe R. Wizard cybe_r_wizard at earthlink.net
Mon Jun 5 15:30:13 UTC 2006


In the Great Book it has Been Written that on Mon, 5 Jun 2006 23:33:07
+1000 Peter Garrett <peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au> didst appear within
my Magick Viewing Screen and, being somewhat pleasantly supplicatory,
did polemicize thusly:

> On Mon, 5 Jun 2006 13:55:11 +0100
> "lucas.clemente" <ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org> wrote:
> 
> > That's good. However, What do those (newbies) of us who have a fresh
> > 6.06 install do? 
> > 
> > I find it odd that Opera would just dissapear from the package
> > manager.
> 
> It didn't disappear - it was never there :)
> 
> Opera is not in main (can't be supported - closed source) , not in
> universe (same thing really - how do you support it without source
> code?) and not in multiverse ( it possibly could be in multiverse I
> guess)
> 
> The Opera 9 beta for debian etch apparently "works" for dapper
> according to some on IRC - I haven't located a download link for it
> though, sorry.
> 
> Peter

Stick this in your /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://deb.opera.com/opera/ unstable non-free

Worked for me.  YMMV

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