On 10/01/15 11:54 AM, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote:
Opera is non-free and apparently no one is maintaining a Debian package for it. However I believe that Opera may still have a debian repository. Try addingHi, it seems that lst month there was a new stable version of Opera for Linux released, but for Ubuntu only. One of the Opera devs has a blog about installing it on non-Debian-based distros http://ruario.ghost.io/2014/12/19/installing-opera-on-distributions-other-than-debian-ubuntu-or-derivatives/ but it doesn't say how to install it on Debian itself. I tried just installing the Ubuntu package but that required a version of libc6 more advances than what's on Debian without getting from Experimental, and that seems like a bad idea anyway. The version from Debian is still 12.16 which is years old. Is there a way to install this on Debian. Im running Wheezy. Thanks. Jen
deb http://deb.opera.com/opera stable non-free to your /etc/apt/sources.list file, then add the repository key wget -O - http://deb.opera.com/archive.key | apt-key add -and do an update. You should then be able to install Opera. Or you may run into the same libc6 problem. In this latter case, you can try installing libc6 from testing.
If that looks like it may leave you with a lot of broken packages, you could simply upgrade to Jessie. Jessie is pretty stable but not quite as bulletproof as Wheezy (although I have as many problems with Wheezy as I do with Jessie, and I'm not using a GUI on my Wheezy installs).