Can't install Opera 51 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

ygbourhis

ygbourhis @leocg

Hi @leocg Is there no chance that they change their decision to support 14.04 till EOS?
All those here who tried my solution did the free QA for Opera guys and proved irrelevant to not support 14.04
We did the effort to validate that it works on 14.04 Could we not expect a least effort now from Opera?
The change is just so trivial.

leocg

leocg Moderator Volunteer @ygbourhis

@ygbourhis If they decided to set Ubuntu 16.04 as the minimum version to install Opera on that system, it's because they have good reasons for doing it.

bbatten

bbatten @ygbourhis

@ygbourhis
I downloaded the deb file for 52.0.2871.40 from Opera's download site and applied your package patch Fri 3/30/18. I've been using it regularly since then and everything seems to be working right except for the No-Script Suite Lite extension.

Opera crashes every time I click on the script's gear icon unless I'm in Opera's settings tab. Opera 52.0.2871.40 installed on Ubuntu 16.04 does not have that problem.

I'm digging a little deeper to see if I can get some idea of what's going on, but in my view it may be a little early to claim absolutely everything works. I'll post what - if anything - I find out here.

bbatten

bbatten @bbatten

@ygbourhis Duh. It just now dawned on my that you are using Ubuntu 14.04. Can you click on the No-Script Lite gear icon from any web page (not just the settings tab) without getting a crash?

If so, I think that would remove the qualm I have about the down-revved libdbus-1-3 requirement. I use my Devuan system as a development box, so its configuration may not be entirely cruft free. After all, as you say, the change is very trivial.

Thanks again for the package patch.

ygbourhis

ygbourhis @bbatten

@bbatten Are you using a plugin? because I do not have this Icon.
With Opera 52 repackaged for trusty even the following issue is fixed: https://forums.opera.com/topic/24496/opera-crashes-in-menu-bookmarks
While if I stay with the last opera 14.04 compatible I can't access my bookmarks without a crash.
Have you tried with a new opera profile? Maybe you have some incompatible plugin.

bbatten

bbatten @ygbourhis

@ygbourhis For me, Noscript Lite shows up under "about:extensions". Clicking Enable will make it show up as a little shield at the very right end of the address bar. Clicking on the little shield causes a small window to appear with a box labeled '+' and a box containing a gear symbol. I've found that clicking on the gear symbol results in a crash when I'm on a web page. The only place I've found that there is no crash is when I'm on the settings tab.

The crash does not happen when I'm running the same version of Opera on Ubuntu 16.04.

ygbourhis

ygbourhis @bbatten

@bbatten Ok, so it's an add on. Did you try deinstalling and then reinstalling the noscript addon?
I added it : https://addons.opera.com/fr/extensions/details/noscript-lite/
And have no issue with Opera 52 on Linux Mint Qiana (Based on Ubuntu Trusty).

bbatten

bbatten @ygbourhis

@ygbourhis No. So I deinstalled it, then downloaded from its website and activated it. Same results. Opera crashes if I click the gear icon in anything other than the Settings tab. Here's syslog:

[1] bryan: grep opera /var/log/syslog
Apr 10 12:50:30 Pentium90 kernel: [613766.044865] opera[16412]: segfault at a8 ip 0000000004f4fe65 sp 00007ffc00147540 error 4 in opera[1a1e000+5afe000]

Looks like there's a good probability that I have cruft in my environment (it's used for development after all). Be nice if someone could test in exactly Ubuntu 14.04.

ygbourhis

ygbourhis

I removed the old packages and instead made a script to automaticaly create a backported opera version for trusty.

Here it is:

https://storage.fr1.cloudwatt.com/v1/AUTH_71c6d0f9c3eb4f5a95cebeae99f3b468/Opera_Repackaged/backport_opera_5x_to_trusty.sh
Or here:
https://gist.githubusercontent.com/ygbourhis/2033f03f93377b71c29fa0fcbfd71b75/raw/14fbac7c467891c7d9ce4917b74d9df2bad8a5cb/backport_opera_5x_to_trusty.sh

Once downloaded make it executable:

chmod a+x backport_opera_5x_to_trusty.sh

And simply launch this command in the directory where you downloaded opera:

./backport_opera_5x_to_trusty.sh opera-stable_52.0.2871.64_amd64.deb

(Replace opera-stable_52.0.2871.64_amd64.deb with the newly downloaded version)

You can find the source code here:
https://gist.github.com/ygbourhis/2033f03f93377b71c29fa0fcbfd71b75

Hope this helps.

A Former User

How to Installl GDebi on your Linux machine:

Open a Terminal and tap this command:
sudo apt-get install gdebi
Go to:
https://www.opera.com/computer
and download the Opera-WebBrowser for Linux:
opera-stable_xx.x.xxxx_amd64.deb
Go to your Downloads directory an double klick on:
opera-stable_xx.x.xxxx_amd64.deb
It will install Opera like a Setup.exe on a Windows Computer.

A Former User @Guest

sudo dpkg -i <package_name> works just fine.

A Former User

@night-owl-cat + @fredyavatar
Thank you for your contributions to the subject, but if you have read the first... 5 answers of the thread, you would see the WHY opera 51+ can not be installed on ubuntu 14.04 and similarly old distros and you would not post the HOW.

A Former User @ygbourhis

@ygbourhis: Thank you so much for this workaround, it seems to be working fine!

I was just about to consider upgrading my system to the new LTS, but I'm not sure now, since keep using Opera would've been my only real reason, but that seems to be sorted now, as long as this script works (not sure if it will work with 60.x versions later, but I don't see why it shouldn't).

Finally with the new version I could get rid of the annoying Ctrl+Tab crash bug!

ygbourhis

ygbourhis @Guest

@metaltrabant You're welcome.
The only issue with my script is that we need to manually check for opera updates. But indeed it allows postponing the LTS upgrade.

A Former User

I just noticed that and I think I have to mention it here.

Chromium's packaging for ubuntu 14.04 stopped in version 65. Can you guess the reason?
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Exactly. It officially needs libdbus-1-3 >= 1.9.14, which is not available for 14.04. It is still packaged as usual in 16.04 and 18.04.

ygbourhis

ygbourhis

Guess what?

Opera 53.0.2907.106 is now compatible with trusty "just as is" (no need for my backports script). Indeed, I inspected the new package, the requirement is now set to libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.6.18)

Now that's good news

A Former User @ygbourhis

@ygbourhis: Yep, I've just updated from the official repository.
Seems like they've come to senses as to not loose loyal users on a tiny thing like this...