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Got home from work this evening much earlier than normal. Had some time to kill and decided this would be a good day to figure out how to go about getting Opera installed on my little Xubuntu laptop. Turned out to be relatively simple.

A quick google search located the Ubuntu / Opera wiki page. Granted, this is aimed at the Ubuntu (not Xubuntu) folks, but I figured things shouldn’t be too terribly different. And I’m glad to say they weren’t very different at all. In fact, everything I needed turned out to be on that page.

I elected to go the apt-get route. First trick was having to locate my apt sources.list file. Finally found it languishing under /etc/apt. Once I found that, it was just as simple as following the directions.

oops. Not quite. Hit a dependency issue. And once again, just followed the instructions and got that sorted out as well. Back to the first part and I quickly had Opera 8.5-something-or-other running.

Oops.

I wanted 9 beta2! Just happened to glance back at the page I had used for the dependency issue and noticed that it continued on with a bit about installing from snapshots. Popped over to the Opera site, got my proper “etch deb” file and am writing this post in Opera 9b2 on Xubuntu. Sweet.

One Response to “Xubuntu and Opera”

1. Joe on July 7th, 2006 3:55 pm
   

   Yeah I installed just Ubuntu and it works fine on my desktop.

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