Mint 18.1/Opera 49 fatal error and doesn't open
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catmcfarlane last edited by
Hi, using Mint 18.1. Ran the Opera 49 deb file, but nothing happened. Typing 'opera' in terminal showed it needing NSS 3.26. I don't know what that is. Haven't been able to allow updates for Opera in Update Manager because of this; I let it go through once, but it still updated to the fatal error version. Luckily I had an Opera 47 deb file, which runs.
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catmcfarlane last edited by
Concerned that system is insecure; will need to look for another browser if unable to update.
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A Former User last edited by
Which version of libnss3 are you using? Please check what is discussed here
https://forums.opera.com/topic/22733/opera-crashes-and-will-not-start-after-upgrade-48/10 -
catmcfarlane last edited by
@jimunderscorep said in Mint 18.1/Opera 49 fatal error and doesn't open:
libnss3
Thanks jimunderscorep. Appreciate response and link.
apt-cache show libnss3 | grep Version
Version: 2:3.28.4-0ubuntu0.16.04.3
Version: 2:3.23-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
Version: 2:3.21-1ubuntu4I was using 18.1 just a couple of weeks ago, and have needed to return to it ... beyond me why Opera would suddenly upgrade so fast to something that doesn't look upgradeable in synaptic.
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A Former User last edited by A Former User
Ok, but which one of the three is installed on your system? You can check it with
apt-cache policy libnss3
Packages.ubuntu.com reports that ubuntu has 3.28 as a security update for 14.04, 16.04 and 17.04 and 3.32 as th default one one for 17.10 and 18.04.. Assuming that mint 18.x is ubuntu 16.04 based, you should be having 3.28 as well...
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catmcfarlane last edited by
@jimunderscorep said in Mint 18.1/Opera 49 fatal error and doesn't open:
Ok, but which one of the three is installed on your system? You can check it with
apt-cache policy libnss3
Packages.ubuntu.com reports that ubuntu has 3.28 as a security update for 14.04, 16.04 and 17.04 and 3.32 as th default one one for 17.10 and 18.04.. Assuming that mint 18.x is ubuntu 16.04 based, you should be having 3.28 as well...
Thanks jimunderscorep. Much appreciate.
With being worried about the browser being insecure, I hunted round for some deb files. Found those, and now the system reports what's below. I had not known the 3.26 version would be numbered 2.3.36 in synaptic, which I found out after installing the debs. At least it's resolved now, and thanks for responding.apt-cache policy libnss3
libnss3:
Installed: 2:3.28.4-0ubuntu0.16.04.3
Candidate: 2:3.28.4-0ubuntu0.16.04.3
Version table:
*** 2:3.28.4-0ubuntu0.16.04.3 500
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 Packages
500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
2:3.21-1ubuntu4 500
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages -
A Former User last edited by A Former User
I do not know about the odd numbering, i.e. the "2:" part preceding the version number, however the real version of libnss3 is the 3.28 and it is installed in your system. Oddly, opera requires libnss3 to be at version 3.14.3 or newer as seen on its dependencies and this makes it installable even on an non-updated ubuntu 14.04 system which will have libnss3 at 3.15
$ apt-cache show opera-stable Package: opera-stable ... Depends: ... libnss3 (>= 3.14.3) ...
The same applies to opera beta and opera developer and I think this is an issue the opera devs must fix soon
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catmcfarlane last edited by
@jimunderscorep Thanks for confirmation, jimunderscorep, and for the code, as I've been able to see further recommended dependencies to check out. Yes, here's hoping Opera make sure all systems are covered, especially as major Linux OS upgrading isn't set to fully update for a few years yet, in Mint's case anyway. And people are running all kinds of older systems or previous releases, and having to now manually install things that just need to still be there isn't fun and may be beyond what many (new) users could handle.
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A Former User last edited by
This is the reason for the odd numbering
http://aalvarez.me/blog/posts/debian-package-versioning.html -
catmcfarlane last edited by
@jimunderscorep said in Mint 18.1/Opera 49 fatal error and doesn't open:
This is the reason for the odd numbering
http://aalvarez.me/blog/posts/debian-package-versioning.htmlThanks for the link; good to know, although I still wish they just did a nice clear 1, 2, 3, etc, lol.