How to Install Opera Browser in Debian

To Install Opera Browser in Debian

Opera is a fastest and easy-to-use web browser used for Linux distributions. It is designed with a built-in ad blocker, battery saver and free VPN. Some of its advanced features are speed dial, pop-up blocking, private browsing and tabbed browsing. Installation of Opera Browser in Debian is explained in this article.


Installation of Opera Browser

First install gdebi packages with following command.

root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get install gdebi
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  autopoint diffstat gettext gir1.2-vte-2.90 gksu hardening-includes
  intltool-debian libapt-pkg-perl libarchive-zip-perl libasprintf-dev
  libclone-perl libdigest-hmac-perl libemail-valid-perl libgettextpo-dev
  libgettextpo0 libgksu2-0 libio-pty-perl libio-socket-inet6-perl
  libipc-run-perl liblist-moreutils-perl libnet-dns-perl
  libnet-domain-tld-perl libnet-ip-perl libperlio-gzip-perl libsocket6-perl
  libtext-levenshtein-perl lintian patchutils sudo t1utils
Suggested packages:
  gettext-doc binutils-multiarch libyaml-perl
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  autopoint diffstat gdebi gettext gir1.2-vte-2.90 gksu hardening-includes
  intltool-debian libapt-pkg-perl libarchive-zip-perl libasprintf-dev
  libclone-perl libdigest-hmac-perl libemail-valid-perl libgettextpo-dev
  libgettextpo0 libgksu2-0 libio-pty-perl libio-socket-inet6-perl
  libipc-run-perl liblist-moreutils-perl libnet-dns-perl
  libnet-domain-tld-perl libnet-ip-perl libperlio-gzip-perl libsocket6-perl
  libtext-levenshtein-perl lintian patchutils sudo t1utils
0 upgraded, 31 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 5,335 kB of archives.
After this operation, 18.7 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Get:1 http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates/main sudo amd64 1.8.10p3-1+deb8u3 [855 kB]
Get:2 http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ stable/main libgettextpo0 amd64 0.19.3-2 [138 kB]
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Setting up libio-pty-perl (1:1.08-1+b4) ...
Setting up libipc-run-perl (0.92-1) ...
Setting up liblist-moreutils-perl (0.33-2+b1) ...
Setting up libperlio-gzip-perl (0.18-3+b1) ...
Setting up libtext-levenshtein-perl (0.11-1) ...
Setting up patchutils (0.3.3-1) ...
Setting up t1utils (1.38-4) ...
Setting up lintian (2.5.30+deb8u4) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.19-18+deb8u6) ...
Processing triggers for systemd (215-17+deb8u5) ...

Download the opera.deb latest file from its official site.

Click on download now option.

Select on OK option to save the file.

Once the download is completed, move it to the Downloads directory.

root@linuxhelp:~# cd /home/user1/Downloads/
root@linuxhelp:/home/user1/Downloads# ls -l
total 106204
-rw-r--r-- 1 user1 user1 48086530 Nov 18 08:28 opera-stable_41.0.2353.56_amd64.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 user1 user1 60654199 Aug 26  2013 VMwareTools-9.6.0-1294478.tar.gz
drwxr-xr-x 7 root  root      4096 Aug 26  2013 vmware-tools-distrib

Now its time to install Opera browser by using the following command.

root@linuxhelp:/home/user1/Downloads# gdebi opera-stable_41.0.2353.56_amd64.deb
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree        
Reading state information... Done
Building data structures... Done
Building data structures... Done
Requires the installation of the following packages: apt-transport-https libcurl3

Fast and secure web browser
 Opera is a fast, secure, and user-friendly web browser.
 It includes web developer tools, news aggregation, and the ability
 to compress data via Opera Turbo on congested networks.
Do you want to install the software package? [y/N]:y
Get:1 http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ stable/main apt-transport-https amd64 1.0.9.8.3 [138 kB]
Get:2 http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates/main libcurl3 amd64 7.38.0-4+deb8u5 [259 kB]
Fetched 397 kB in 0s (0 B/s)                                                   
Selecting previously unselected package libcurl3:amd64.
(Reading database ... 146955 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../libcurl3_7.38.0-4+deb8u5_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libcurl3:amd64 (7.38.0-4+deb8u5) ...
Selecting previously unselected package apt-transport-https.
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Preparing to unpack .../apt-transport-https_1.0.9.8.3_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking apt-transport-https (1.0.9.8.3) ...
Setting up libcurl3:amd64 (7.38.0-4+deb8u5) ...
Setting up apt-transport-https (1.0.9.8.3) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.19-18+deb8u6) ...
Selecting previously unselected package opera-stable.
(Reading database ... 146970 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack opera-stable_41.0.2353.56_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking opera-stable (41.0.2353.56) ...
Setting up opera-stable (41.0.2353.56) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-6) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.58) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.13-1) ...
Processing triggers for shared-mime-info (1.3-1) ...

Opera browser is ready to use. Open the opera browser in the Unity Dashboard.

Opera Browser welcome page is shown below,

Search your favorite sites. Have fun!

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jeanyvessimonjsimon73
May 27 2017
it says "Wrong architecture 'amd64' "
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