Opera Browser On CentOS

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Is anyone running the Opera browser on CentOS 7 or 6? While not available in a yum-repository, it seems to be available as a snap-package. Not familiar with those yet but curious if the browser is worthwhile to run. I have generally found Firefox less useful/compatible than Chromium but would also like alternatives, particularly since Opera defaults to a VPN-connection.

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  • It is available in opera’s yum repository:

    [opera]
    name=Opera packages type=rpm-md baseurl=https://rpm.opera.com/rpm gpgcheck=1
    gpgkey=https://rpm.opera.com/rpmrepo.key enabled=1

    I only run it very occasionally, in cases where I want a second login session to AWS that’s different from my primary Firefox session, etc.

    -Greg

  • It seems that Opera does not run under CentOS 6 since the dependencies won’t install? I get the following messages:

    Resolving Dependencies
    –> Running transaction check
    —> Package opera-developer.x86_64 0:62.0.3323.0-0 will be installed
    –> Processing Dependency: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.17)(64bit) for package: opera-developer-62.0.3323.0-0.x86_64
    –> Processing Dependency: libgdk-3.so.0()(64bit) for package: opera-developer-62.0.3323.0-0.x86_64
    –> Processing Dependency: libatk-bridge-2.0.so.0()(64bit) for package: opera-developer-62.0.3323.0-0.x86_64
    –> Processing Dependency: libgtk-3.so.0()(64bit) for package: opera-developer-62.0.3323.0-0.x86_64
    –> Processing Dependency: libatspi.so.0()(64bit) for package: opera-developer-62.0.3323.0-0.x86_64
    –> Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Package: opera-developer-62.0.3323.0-0.x86_64 (opera)
               Requires: libgtk-3.so.0()(64bit)
    Error: Package: opera-developer-62.0.3323.0-0.x86_64 (opera)
               Requires: libgdk-3.so.0()(64bit)
    Error: Package: opera-developer-62.0.3323.0-0.x86_64 (opera)
               Requires: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.17)(64bit)
    Error: Package: opera-developer-62.0.3323.0-0.x86_64 (opera)
               Requires: libatk-bridge-2.0.so.0()(64bit)
    Error: Package: opera-developer-62.0.3323.0-0.x86_64 (opera)
               Requires: libatspi.so.0()(64bit)
     You could try using –skip-broken to work around the problem
     You could try running: rpm -Va –nofiles –nodigest

  • Although not on CentOS, I have run Opera for some time as a result of my dislike of some of the politics elsewhere. It has some unique features but I have not found it to be as compatible as Firefox, there are situations where it does not work and Firefox does. Unfortunately I haven’t gone to the effort to categorize those experiences, they aren’t too frequent.

  • Yes, it will not work on EL6, it requires newer glibc and gtk3. It’s time to leave EL6 behind (or stick to Firefox).

    —
    Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology!

    Nux!
    http://www.nux.ro

    —– Original Message —–

  • I’d wait for EL8.1 to be honest, EL8 won’t be much usable without EPEL repo and the various extra repos for multimedia etc which will take time.