[Solved]Can you tell me how to get Opera for Linux on Chromebook to play Twitter videos?
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treego 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 Moderator Volunteer 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/ lsto get a listing of the contents of /opt/vivaldi/
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treego 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/ lsto 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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treego last edited by
@leocg said in Can you tell me how to get Opera for Linux on Chromebook to play Twitter videos?:
@treego Can't you install the snap version of Opera?
I don't know what that means.
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treego last edited by
@leocg said in Can you tell me how to get Opera for Linux on Chromebook to play Twitter videos?:
Sorry, but it seems like another rabbit trail "for me." I am not well-versed enough manipulating Linux files and finding Linux files/directories ... I hope Opera makes this easier in the future like Vivaldi and Brave apparently have because I have no such video playing issues with those browsers after a Linux installation of each.
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treego last edited by
@treego said in Can you tell me how to get Opera for Linux on Chromebook to play Twitter videos?:
@leocg said in Can you tell me how to get Opera for Linux on Chromebook to play Twitter videos?:
@treego Can't you install the snap version of Opera?
I don't know what that means.
OK, I just found this: https://snapcraft.io/opera ... why would this Opera act differently than the one I have now?
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treego last edited by
@treego said in Can you tell me how to get Opera for Linux on Chromebook to play Twitter videos?:
@treego said in Can you tell me how to get Opera for Linux on Chromebook to play Twitter videos?:
@leocg said in Can you tell me how to get Opera for Linux on Chromebook to play Twitter videos?:
@treego Can't you install the snap version of Opera?
I don't know what that means.
OK, I just found this: https://snapcraft.io/opera ... why would this Opera act differently than the one I have now?
If I install the snap version of Opera, do I have to uninstall the version of Opera I have now? If so, how do I do that?
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@treego Check the release posts, there is always a link to a snap version for Linux that exists exactly to solve the codecs issue.
https://blogs.opera.com/desktop/2021/03/opera-75-brings-easier-access-to-top-features-2/
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treego last edited by
@leocg said in Can you tell me how to get Opera for Linux on Chromebook to play Twitter videos?:
@treego Check the release posts, there is always a link to a snap version for Linux that exists exactly to solve the codecs issue.
https://blogs.opera.com/desktop/2021/03/opera-75-brings-easier-access-to-top-features-2/
So, ignore the deb and RPM packages? Should I uninstall the version of Opera I have now first?
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treego last edited by
@leocg said in Can you tell me how to get Opera for Linux on Chromebook to play Twitter videos?:
@treego I don't think it's necessary.
Well, I uninstalled my Opera on Linux.
This Snap version of Opera is not a "snap" for me. It is very confusing once again for me.
If you're up for giving me guidance, I will listen; otherwise, I am afraid to dive into this Snap-thing. As I said, it is confusing reading on this; I don't want to mess up my Chromebook.
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treego last edited by
@treego said in Can you tell me how to get Opera for Linux on Chromebook to play Twitter videos?:
@leocg said in Can you tell me how to get Opera for Linux on Chromebook to play Twitter videos?:
@treego I don't think it's necessary.
Well, I uninstalled my Opera on Linux.
This Snap version of Opera is not a "snap" for me. It is very confusing once again for me.
If you're up for giving me guidance, I will listen; otherwise, I am afraid to dive into this Snap-thing. As I said, it is confusing reading on this; I don't want to mess up my Chromebook.
Well, the Snap thing is not gonna' work on Chromebook, apparently. It is not fully supported on Chromebook according to this readout:
treego14@penguin:~$ sudo apt update
Hit:1 https://deb.debian.org/debian buster InRelease
Get:2 https://deb.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates InRelease [65.4 kB]
Hit:3 https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com stable InRelease
Hit:4 https://deb.opera.com/opera-stable stable InRelease
Ign:5 http://repo.vivaldi.com/stable/deb stable InRelease
Ign:6 https://storage.googleapis.com/cros-packages/89 buster InRelease
Hit:7 http://repo.vivaldi.com/stable/deb stable Release
Hit:8 https://storage.googleapis.com/cros-packages/89 buster Release
Fetched 65.4 kB in 2s (29.5 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
All packages are up to date.
treego14@penguin:~$ sudo apt install snapd
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
snapd is already the newest version (2.37.4-1+b1).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
treego14@penguin:~$ sudo snap install snap-store
error: system does not fully support snapd: cannot mount squashfs image using
"squashfs": mount: /tmp/sanity-mountpoint-170089791: mount failed:
Operation not permitted.
treego14@penguin:~$ sudo snap install opera
error: system does not fully support snapd: cannot mount squashfs image using
"squashfs": mount: /tmp/sanity-mountpoint-850069194: mount failed:
Operation not permitted.
treego14@penguin:~$ -
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treego last edited by
@leocg said in Can you tell me how to get Opera for Linux on Chromebook to play Twitter videos?:
@treego It was expected that it could happen.
It was expected that Snap version would not work? Is that what you mean?
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
@treego said in Can you tell me how to get Opera for Linux on Chromebook to play Twitter videos?:
error: system does not fully support snapd: cannot mount squashfs image using
"squashfs": mount: /tmp/sanity-mountpoint-850069194: mount failed:You can look through these results to see if you can find a solution if you are up to it.
According to the search results, the kernel you're using doesn't support squashfs because the module for it isn't loaded. It could be that after installing snapd, you need to restart the system to get the squashfs module to load. Not sure though.
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treego last edited by
@burnout426 said in Can you tell me how to get Opera for Linux on Chromebook to play Twitter videos?:
@treego said in Can you tell me how to get Opera for Linux on Chromebook to play Twitter videos?:
error: system does not fully support snapd: cannot mount squashfs image using
"squashfs": mount: /tmp/sanity-mountpoint-850069194: mount failed:You can look through these results to see if you can find a solution if you are up to it.
According to the search results, the kernel you're using doesn't support squashfs because the module for it isn't loaded. It could be that after installing snapd, you need to restart the system to get the squashfs module to load. Not sure though.
So simply restart the Chromebook, and try installing the Snap version of Opera, again? If so, I can try that. If the solution requires a bunch of theoretical reading on a solution, I am not up for it. I am burned out, @burnout426 .
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
@treego said in Can you tell me how to get Opera for Linux on Chromebook to play Twitter videos?:
So simply restart the Chromebook, and try installing the Snap version of Opera, again?
Yep.
