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    [Solved]Can you tell me how to get Opera for Linux on Chromebook to play Twitter videos?

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    • treego
      treego @sgunhouse last edited by

      @sgunhouse Thank you, but what does "architecture" mean in this context?

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        treego last edited by treego

        I finally got the bright idea to go to opera://about and found this about my system: System:Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) (x86_64; Unknown)

        Does that help in getting help from you that are willing to help me?

        Oh, also: Version:75.0.3969.93

        And: Browser identification
        Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/89.0.4389.82 Safari/537.36 OPR/75.0.3969.93
        Paths
        Install: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera

        Profile: /home/treego14/.config/opera

        Cache: /home/treego14/.cache/opera

        Installation type
        Could only be specified for Windows OS

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        • leocg
          leocg Moderator Volunteer @treego last edited by

          @treego Try copying libffmpeg.so from Vivaldi directory to Opera directory.

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          • treego
            treego @leocg last edited by

            @leocg said in Can you tell me how to get Opera for Linux on Chromebook to play Twitter videos?:

            @treego Try copying libffmpeg.so from Vivaldi directory to Opera directory.

            Which directory? The Install directory? The Profile directory? The Cache directory?

            I don't even know how to access the file directory system on a Chromebook, yet ... hmmm ...

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            • leocg
              leocg Moderator Volunteer @treego last edited by

              @treego the install one. You need to replace the file that comes with Opera with the new one.

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              • treego
                treego @leocg last edited by

                @leocg said in Can you tell me how to get Opera for Linux on Chromebook to play Twitter videos?:

                @treego the install one. You need to replace the file that comes with Opera with the new one.

                I am sorry ... I am lost ... I am not following you on this at all. Maybe it's past my bedtime.

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                • sgunhouse
                  sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer @treego last edited by

                  @treego Oh, you actually have an x86_64 (64-bit Intel processor), I'm used to seeing ARM processors in Chromebooks. The type of processor (in your case x86_64) is the system architecture. No idea if you can copy the file though as you'd need root access.

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                  • treego
                    treego @sgunhouse last edited by

                    @sgunhouse said in Can you tell me how to get Opera for Linux on Chromebook to play Twitter videos?:

                    @treego Oh, you actually have an x86_64 (64-bit Intel processor), I'm used to seeing ARM processors in Chromebooks. The type of processor (in your case x86_64) is the system architecture. No idea if you can copy the file though as you'd need root access.

                    Yeah ... I cannot find the file. I feel as though I am searching with both eyes closed, though.

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                    • treego
                      treego last edited by

                      Would this work?

                      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HT-Nh3jGEm0

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                        leocg Moderator Volunteer @treego last edited by

                        @treego I guess so, just make sure to download the correct file/package, it needs to be the one for Chromium 89.
                        I guess you can go to the last part and simply copy the one in the Vivaldi directory to the Opera directory.

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                        • treego
                          treego @leocg last edited by

                          @leocg said in Can you tell me how to get Opera for Linux on Chromebook to play Twitter videos?:

                          @treego I guess so, just make sure to download the correct file/package, it needs to be the one for Chromium 89.
                          I guess you can go to the last part and simply copy the one in the Vivaldi directory to the Opera directory.

                          OK, I just don't know what the Vivaldi directory is ... if you or someone could type out here the exact wording to do such a thing that I would enter into the Linux Terminal, I and perhaps others would benefit greatly.

                          Thank you.

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                            leocg Moderator Volunteer @treego last edited by

                            @treego Type vivaldi://about or chrome://about in Vivaldi's address bar to find its directories

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                              treego @leocg last edited by

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                                leocg Moderator Volunteer @treego last edited by leocg

                                @treego Check if you see the ffmpeg.so file in /opt/vivaldi/vivaldi or /usr/bin/vivaldi-stable.

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                                  treego @leocg last edited by

                                  @leocg said in Can you tell me how to get Opera for Linux on Chromebook to play Twitter videos?:

                                  @treego Check if you see the ffmpeg.so file in /opt/vivaldi/vivaldi or /usr/bin/vivaldi-stable.

                                  This is a major part of my problem, I guess. I don't know how to navigate the folder/file system of Chromebook to see such files.

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                                  • sgunhouse
                                    sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer @treego last edited by

                                    @treego Never used the command-line? Actually, I'd think the Chromebook's Files app should be able to see the Linux files ...

                                    As far as the command-line, "cd" is "change directory", "ls" is list. So you can type

                                    cd /opt/vivaldi/
                                    ls
                                    

                                    to get a listing of the contents of /opt/vivaldi/

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                                      treego @sgunhouse last edited by treego

                                      @sgunhouse said in Can you tell me how to get Opera for Linux on Chromebook to play Twitter videos?:

                                      @treego Never used the command-line? Actually, I'd think the Chromebook's Files app should be able to see the Linux files ...

                                      As far as the command-line, "cd" is "change directory", "ls" is list. So you can type

                                      cd /opt/vivaldi/
                                      ls
                                      

                                      to get a listing of the contents of /opt/vivaldi/

                                      Hardly ever ... not since the days of DOS, as I recall.

                                      Thank you for this quick tutorial! 🙂

                                      I can see some Linux files using Chromebook's Files app, but not the ones I want to see, it seems.

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                                        treego last edited by

                                        Well, after all this input from you two @leocg and @sgunhouse , I cannot find the magic file .libffmpeg.so ... I guess I need a Linux expert here in person to do this.

                                        Thank you, guys.

                                        I am wiped out over this, and now I am simply getting frustrated. I will move on to not using Opera all that much on my Chromebook for now ... Vivaldi is quite nice, actually.

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                                          leocg Moderator Volunteer @treego last edited by

                                          @treego Can't you install the snap version of Opera?

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                                            leocg Moderator Volunteer @treego last edited by

                                            @treego See https://forums.opera.com/post/162987

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