Can't use Opera on Linux elementary OS
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space49 last edited byHi, I'm publishing this post because of a problem with no longer being able to use Opera on the Elementary Os 5.1.7 Hera operating system.
Having neglected for years the problem of not updating automatically on Elementary OS, as it does with other Ubuntu distributions, surely by mistake I attempted to first install the update obtained by downloading it according to the indication in the main screen of the Opera browser column menu, i.e. opera-stable_107.0.5045.21_amd64.deb
attempted installation with the sudo apt-get install command
but after confirming the operation it reports:
dpkg: dependency problems prevent opera-stable:
opera-stable depends on libgcc-s1 (>= 4.2); However:
the version of libxcomposite1:amd64 on your system is 1:0.4.4-2
dpkg: error processing opera-stable package (--install):
Problems with dependencies left unconfigured
trigger processing for gnome menus (3.13.3-11ubuntu1.1) ...
trigger processing for desktop-file-utils (0.23-1ubuntu3.18.04.2+elementary2-ubuntu5.0.
trigger processing for bamfdeamon (0.5.3+18.04.20180207.2-0ubuntu1)...
.indexrebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...
processing triggers for mime support (3.60ubuntu1)...
processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2)...
processing triggers for shared-mime-info (1.9-2)...
errors occurred during processing: opera stable
after doing this, the icon that appeared in the startup menu for applications disappeared, and it is impossible for me to even use the version that is installed on the disk. sharing this problem I am really grateful to anyone who can provide instructions trying to uninstall the old version of opera install install the next updated version
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sorenfeodor last edited by
@space49 You may find better answers if you ask in an Elementary OS-forum. But for what it's worth, here's what I think.
Newer versions of opera often require newer dependencies; apparently you need to get a newer version of libgcc-s1 ; not sure whether you can do that on your OS.
The version of Elementary OS you use is quite old. Probably the best solution would be to get a newer OS.
To remove the old version of opera, try sudo apt-get remove opera. You may be able to reinstall it by downloading an older deb-package. I am not sure where you can get an older "stable" but "beta"s are here: https://get.opera.com/pub/opera-beta/
Or you could try a snap version or a flatpak if that is something Elementary OS allows.
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space49 last edited by
@sorenfeodor
With the command: sudo apt-get remove opera I had already tried from the terminal but it says: Reading package list... Done
Dependency tree generation
Reading status information... Done
The opera package is not installed and therefore has not been removed,
even if it responds like this, the folder with the operating files is present in the direction: .config where the operating system reports the applications installed in the operating system.
the problem now lies in being able to remove it. Ever since I installed it I noticed that the elementary OS application center on which you can install and remove applications with a click, opera was the only one that did not appear in the list, and recently the application center started reporting an error for the non-updatable repository W: An error occurred while verifying the signature. The repository is out of date and older index files will be used. GPG error: https://deb.opera.com/opera-stable stable InRelease: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 24A1004B1F11DCC9
E: https://deb.opera.com/opera-stable stable InRelease is not (yet) available (The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 24A1004B1F11DCC9) Thank you for your time -
sorenfeodor last edited by
@space49 You could try sudo apt-get purge opera-stable, if sudo apt-get remove opera-stable does not work.
But you should probably try getting help from a linux-forum as the problem is not opera but linux.
The error message you get from your "application center" is probably something you can ignore for now. I do not know Elementary OS, but I imagine that you can remove the opera-repository from it - then the error message should be gone, too.
