[http://www.opera.com Opera] is still the fastest web browser!

Download

Get the latest release from [http://www.opera.com/download/ Opera Download] or get the latest Preview from [http://snapshot.opera.com/unix/ Opera Preview and Betas]

Installation

sudo dpkg -i opera-static_8.02-20050727.1-qt_en_i386.deb

Change it to your version

Create a menu entry for Opera

Create a new .desktop file

sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/opera.desktop

Insert the following lines and save it as UTF-8

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Opera Web Browser
GenericName=Web Browser
Comment=Surf the Internet in a safer, faster, and easier way
Exec=opera %u
Terminal=false
MultipleArgs=true
Type=Application
Icon=/usr/X11R6/include/X11/bitmaps/opera.xpm
Categories=Application;Network
MimeType=text/html;image/gif;image/jpeg;image/png

Adapt it to gnome

If it's the first time you have installed opera

mkdir ~/.opera
gedit ~/.opera/filehandler.ini

and insert the following lines into the file:

Opera Preferences version 2.0
; Do not edit this file while Opera is running
; This file is stored in UTF-8 encoding
[Settings]
Default File Handler=gnome-open exec,1
Default Directory Handler=gnome-open exec,1

otherwise just adapt your filehandler.ini.

Start

You can now start Opera also from Application -> Internet -> Opera Web Browser

Troubleshooting

If you have choosen the qt-shared version, you need the libqt3c102-mt package.

Credits: [http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=40467&page=1 Joh]

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