HOWTO: Install Opera in Ubuntu

**joh** · June 9th, 2005

Moved!

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=40467

The guide is now located in the Hoary forum. The install instructions is the same for Warty and Hoary so I didn't see any point of seperating them.

**Majlo** · June 9th, 2005

Thanks

Great Work

**kuleali** · June 9th, 2005

Nice howto

**bugmenot** · June 18th, 2005

First, thank you for the write up. Was the most helpful one I could find. Also, pardon my utter noobness...

Sadly I wasn't able to get it to work for me. I type the command to install Opera in the Terminal which completes with the following result:

"Setting up opera-static (8.01-20050615.1) ..."

Yet I don't see Opera installed anywhere, other than the Package Manager.

In fact opera.desktop doesn't exist. Completing the rest of the instructions just to cover my bases yields no success. Opera just can't be found.

Any ideas?

**Xian** · June 18th, 2005

Originally Posted by bugmenot

Yet I don't see Opera installed anywhere, other than the Package Manager.

Try launching Opera to see if it has installed successfuly.
Right-click on your desktop and choose "Open Terminal'.

At the prompt enter this command and hit the enter key.
Does Opera start-up?

Code:

$ opera

**bugmenot** · June 18th, 2005

I'm such a dunce. Can't believe I didn't think to type opera in the Terminal. Too many years of Windows I guess.

Thanks Xian and OP. For some reason Opera just wouldn't appear in the Applications shortcut (following the full instructions) until I launched it first in the Terminal and accepted the Graphical Ads option.

**joh** · June 22nd, 2005

Opera doesn't create the opera.desktop, thats what that part of the HOWTO is about.

Sometimes the GNOME Application menu doesn't update before you restart in.

Doing this in the terminal should do the trick:

Code:

killall gnome-panel

**Riggs** · June 25th, 2005

The only thing that bothers me still is that Opera is not taking on the color scheme of the theme I am using. When you select anything in the menus, or in any of the dropdowns, the hightlight is always blue, even though I'm using Clearlooks Olive. Any suggestions?

**Xian** · June 25th, 2005

AFAIK Opera is a QT based application and does not support GTK theme attributes.

**dakira** · July 5th, 2005

Originally Posted by Riggs

The only thing that bothers me still is that Opera is not taking on the color scheme of the theme I am using. When you select anything in the menus, or in any of the dropdowns, the hightlight is always blue, even though I'm using Clearlooks Olive. Any suggestions?

Press SHIFT+F12 and in the Skin-Tab select the Opera Standard skin (if not already selected) and in Color scheme select "System color scheme".

That does it for me..

dakira