Posts made by sorenfeodor

@pindos You are a lifesaver - thank you

@yakuzakyuu Please do not consider this to be an expert's answer:

When I google your "error message" I read that "N" is for "notice" and may be ignored. Still, it is annoying and I eventually end up here: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/n-missing-signed-by-in-the-sources-list-5-entry-for-http-mirrors-digitalocean-com-ubuntu

Maybe try to see if that fixes it?

Try sudo apt-get remove opera or sudo apt-get purge opera in the terminal; "opera" may be opera-stable.

Make a timeshift image before removing opera in case you break something and need to revert.

@sorenfeodor Probably use timeshift first to be on the safe side.

I am still on mint 21.3, using opera 112.0.5197.53- here it seems that libglib 2.0-0 is installable.

Try sudo apt-get install libglib2.0-0

@kauazn08 Did you try the solutions given in https://forums.opera.com/topic/72349/compilation-discussions-on-problems-playing-videos-on-linux/37?

@lvdl Solutions may be found here: https://forums.opera.com/topic/58114/can-t-change-ui-language-no-option-display-opera-in-that-language/30

@sorenfeodor A version for chromium 125 can be found on https://github.com/Ld-Hagen/fix-opera-linux-ffmpeg-widevine/releases I haven't tested it yet. I expect that also means that Hagen's script will work.

The newest version (111?) of opera stable requires a newer version of libffmpeg.so (corresponding to chromium 125), a version which I cannot find - I've looked all the usual places. So be careful about updating

@entomashadoll For me the difficult part is getting the libffmpeg-file.

https://github.com/Ld-Hagen/fix-opera-linux-ffmpeg-widevine has a script doing it all for you; get the ligffmpeg and copy it to the right lcoation. You run it every time you update opera. Or you could try the snap-version (as wonghow suggests) or the flatpack-version. Mint prefers flatpaks to snaps, but my experience with the opera flatpak was not good.

As long as you make a timeshift snapshot before changing anything you can always go back

@entomashadoll If nobody else provides a useful answer, then I would suggest you try a newer version of opera. There are ways of fixing the "videos won't work"-problem; they are described in this forum. They work nicely for me (most recent linux mint, cinnamon). Maybe a newer opera fixes your problem?

But please use timeshift before installing a new opera; this will make it easy to go back to your old opera if the new one cannot fix your download-issues and/or you cannot fix the video-problem.

@dashigirl Solutions are discussed here: https://forums.opera.com/topic/58114/can-t-change-ui-language-no-option-display-opera-in-that-language/30

I do not see any adverts on youtube (nor generally for that matter). I have the ghostery extension enabled and that may help a bit, too; when I pause it on youtube I do get a (ignorable for me) pop-up.

Did you check your opera settings ("Easy setup") that "block ads" are enabled?

@cappy984 Did you try the solutions given in the other "videos won't play"-questions?

@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.

@carl393 I would try following the instructions on https://deb.opera.com/manual.html. I imagine this (the first line, maybe) would install the right public key.

If not, maybe try to uninstall opera and re-install (using timeshift before uninstalling if you have timeshift, so that you can go back if things turn sour)

@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.

I have the same experience as spiritwind: first click (on pause) in a youtube video (pauses the video and) opens a new window. After that everything works as expected (ie no new windows when clicking).

Not sure when it started as I only watch youtube videos rarely on this computer. My opera version is a bit older than krebso's

Linux Mint 21.2 Cinnamon
Opera 106.0.4998.52 (installed from deb)

You will probably find the solution here: https://forums.opera.com/topic/37539/solved-solving-the-problem-of-the-opera-browser-with-video-playback-in-ubuntu-and-similar-distributions-linux-mint-kde-neon/167

I have now successfully installed 102.0.4880.40 on Linux Mint 21.2 from deb. I have not changed anything (same extentions as when updating failed 14 days ago), but of course a number of other packages have been updated in the previous 14 days. I have not tried to install opera-updates since 102.0.4880.16 gave me problems.