Opera on Linux Kali

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

Trying to install Opera on
root@kali:~# cat /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="Kali GNU/Linux Rolling"
NAME="Kali GNU/Linux"
ID=kali
VERSION="2018.1"
VERSION_ID="2018.1"
ID_LIKE=debian
ANSI_COLOR="1;31"
HOME_URL="http://www.kali.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="http://forums.kali.org/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="http://bugs.kali.org/"
root@kali:~#

Installation through gdebi

root@kali:~# cd Desktop
root@kali:~/Desktop# gdebi opera-stable_51.0.2830.34_amd64.deb
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading state information... Done
Requires the installation of the following packages: gconf-service gconf2-common libgconf-2-4

Fast and secure web browser
Opera is a fast, secure, and user-friendly web browser.
It includes web developer tools, news aggregation, and the ability
to compress data via Opera Turbo on congested networks.
Do you want to install the software package? [y/N]:y
Get:1 http://mirror.kku.ac.th/kali kali-rolling/main amd64 gconf2-common all 3.2.6-4.1 [1039 kB]
Get:2 http://mirror.kku.ac.th/kali kali-rolling/main amd64 libgconf-2-4 amd64 3.2.6-4.1 [426 kB]
Get:3 http://mirror.kku.ac.th/kali kali-rolling/main amd64 gconf-service amd64 3.2.6-4.1 [414 kB]
Fetched 1879 kB in 0s (0 B/s)
Selecting previously unselected package gconf2-common.
(Reading database ... 325205 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../gconf2-common_3.2.6-4.1_all.deb ...
Unpacking gconf2-common (3.2.6-4.1) ...
Selecting previously unselected package libgconf-2-4:amd64.
Preparing to unpack .../libgconf-2-4_3.2.6-4.1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libgconf-2-4:amd64 (3.2.6-4.1) ...
Selecting previously unselected package gconf-service.
Preparing to unpack .../gconf-service_3.2.6-4.1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking gconf-service (3.2.6-4.1) ...
Setting up gconf2-common (3.2.6-4.1) ...

Creating config file /etc/gconf/2/path with new version
Processing triggers for sgml-base (1.29) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.25-5) ...
Setting up libgconf-2-4:amd64 (3.2.6-4.1) ...
Setting up gconf-service (3.2.6-4.1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.25-5) ...
Some new locales have appeared on your system:

aln bal ca@valencia en@boldquot en@quot en@shaw fr.ISO8859-1 fr.UTF-8 ilo la sr@latin zh_CN.GB2312 zh_TW.Big5

They will not be touched until you reconfigure localepurge
with the following command:

dpkg-reconfigure localepurge

localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/locale: 5664 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/man: 0 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/gnome/help: 0 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/omf: 0 KiB

Total disk space freed by localepurge: 5664 KiB

Some new locales have appeared on your system:

aln bal ca@valencia en@boldquot en@quot en@shaw fr.ISO8859-1 fr.UTF-8 ilo la sr@latin zh_CN.GB2312 zh_TW.Big5

They will not be touched until you reconfigure localepurge
with the following command:

dpkg-reconfigure localepurge

localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/locale: 0 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/man: 0 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/gnome/help: 0 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/omf: 0 KiB

Total disk space freed by localepurge: 0 KiB

Selecting previously unselected package opera-stable.
(Reading database ... 325344 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack opera-stable_51.0.2830.34_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking opera-stable (51.0.2830.34) ...
Setting up opera-stable (51.0.2830.34) ...
update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/opera to provide /usr/bin/x-www-browser (x-www-browser) in auto mode
update-alternatives: warning: skip creation of /usr/share/man/man1/x-www-browser.1.gz because associated file /usr/share/man/man1/opera.1.gz (of link group x-www-browser) doesn't exist
update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/opera to provide /usr/bin/gnome-www-browser (gnome-www-browser) in auto mode
update-alternatives: warning: skip creation of /usr/share/man/man1/gnome-www-browser.1.gz because associated file /usr/share/man/man1/opera.1.gz (of link group gnome-www-browser) doesn't exist
Processing triggers for menu (2.1.47+b1) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-1) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-11) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.23-2) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.60) ...
Processing triggers for shared-mime-info (1.9-2) ...
root@kali:~#

Icon shows up in applications.
On click nothing happens.

Any comment appreciated.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by A Former User

Chromium based browsers can not be run as root. Launching one from the terminal as root will pop something like this

ERROR:zygote_host_impl_linux.cc(90)] Running as root without --no-sandbox is not supported. See https://crbug.com/638180.

However, I think that chromium on kali has some workaround to allow it to run with root privileges, but I don't know what it is or how you can apply it to opera.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

@jimunderscorep said in Opera on Linux Kali:
Thanks your reply.

Can start Opera with opera --no-sandbox

Any way to change default Opera icon to include this code?

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

You can copy opera's menu shortcut (/usr/share/applications/opera.desktop) in /root/.local/share/applications/ and then, with a text editor, edit it, changing line #7 from

Exec=opera %U

to

 Exec=opera %U --no-sandbox 

Save and you are done.

However, I do not know if it will work or what side effects it may have, so please try this on a terminal first

opera --no-sandbox 

and give it a test drive before making the changes mentioned above.

All the above must be done because kali is not an everyday distro and, for the average user, there is always something more that has to be done in order for some stuff to work as sthey are supposed to.Because of that, I would advice making a regular user for everyday tasks and using root only where it is absolutely needed.

[huldunet]

huldunet @Guest last edited by

@jimunderscorep

Thank you so much.
Currently using Kali, and after installing Opera, your answer
turned up as hit #3 on Google. (#1 and #2 was to a Youtube video)

I registered so I could post a thanks for your reply on this thread

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

Sorry to be back.

Opera worked fine on Kali installed HDD with

Exec=opera %U --no-sandbox

Now setting up Kali live persisence and tried to do the same.
No luck
All other applications works as expected only Opera the problem.
Any comment appreciated.