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

[treego]

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

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @treego last edited by

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

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@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 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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@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 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 @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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Would this work?

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

[leocg]

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 @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.

[leocg]

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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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 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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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.

[leocg]

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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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 Can't you install the snap version of Opera?

I don't know what that means.