Opera browser in Dapper

Scott listboi at angrykeyboarder.com
Thu Jun 8 09:28:33 UTC 2006


On 06/05/2006 08:30 AM, * Cybe R. Wizard spake thusly:
> 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
> 

The Opera 9 beta is actually @
deb http://deb.opera.com/opera-beta/ unstable non-free

And regardless of whether I try to install Opera 9 or Opera 8.54 I still
get dependency error messages.



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