Can't install Opera 51 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

[bbatten]

bbatten @ygbourhis last edited by bbatten

@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 last edited by

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]

A Former User last edited by A Former User

How to Installl GDebi on your Linux machine:

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

[A Former User]

A Former User @Guest last edited by

sudo dpkg -i <package_name> works just fine.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

@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.

[metaltrabant]

metaltrabant @ygbourhis last edited by

@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 @metaltrabant last edited by

@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]

A Former User last edited by 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 last edited by 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

[metaltrabant]

metaltrabant @ygbourhis last edited by

@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...