HOWTO: Install Opera in Ubuntu Hoary

[joh]

Moved!

The Howto is moved to the Ubuntu Wiki, and is updated to a newer version of Opera.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/OperaBrowser

Feel free to comment it here.

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This is the install instructions for the Opera Internet Suite (Web browser +++)

This installs Opera, adds a menu icon and changes the default file handler from kexec to gnome-open.

Please give feedback if you have any tricks to make Opera integrate better with the Ubuntu desktop.

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1. wget
ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/www/clients/O...qt_en_i386.deb
2. sudo dpkg -i opera-static_8.02-20050727.1-qt_en_i386.deb
3. sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/opera.desktop
4. Insert the following lines into the file:

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Opera Web Browser
GenericName=Web Browser
Comment=Surf the Internet in a safer, faster, and easier way
Exec=opera %u
Terminal=false
MultipleArgs=true
Type=Application
Icon=/usr/X11R6/include/X11/bitmaps/opera.xpm
Categories=Application;Network
MimeType=text/html;image/gif;image/jpeg;image/png

5. Save the edited file.
6. mkdir ~/.opera
7. gedit ~/.opera/filehandler.ini
8. Insert the following lines into the file:

Opera Preferences version 2.0
; Do not edit this file while Opera is running
; This file is stored in UTF-8 encoding
[Settings]
Default File Handler=gnome-open exec,1
Default Directory Handler=gnome-open exec,1

9. Save the edited file.
10. Open Opera with Application -> Internet -> Opera Web Browser


To set Opera as the system default browser and mailreader. Follow this steps:
1. Go to System | Preferences | Preferred Applications
2. Under the Web Browser tab select "Custom" and, in the Command box, enter:

opera -newpage "%s"

3. Under the Mail Reader tab select "Custom" and, in the Command box, enter:

opera -newmail "%s"

[donar73]

Thx, works perfectly!

[joh]

Thats nice

I'm glad you are happy with it!

[Spug]

Thats nice

I'm glad you are happy with it!

Ah, thanks for the tips about how to change the default file handler. Much appreciated.

[sempsteen]

thanks to joh for this perfect how-to!

[centremco]

What exactly do you have to do different when using kubuntu?
Just leave the last step? (gnome-open)
Or even do the last step, but type something different than gnome-open?

thx for the howto btw, very usefull!

[kagashe]

3. sudo dpkg -i opera_8.0-20050415.6-shared-qt_en_sarge_i386.deb

This line needs to be corrected as follows:
3. sudo dpkg -i opera_8.01-20050615.5-shared-qt_en_sarge_i386.deb

kagashe

[joh]

What exactly do you have to do different when using kubuntu?
Just leave the last step? (gnome-open)
Or even do the last step, but type something different than gnome-open?

thx for the howto btw, very usefull!

Drop the last step. KDE's kexec is default in Opera.

[Copter]

thnx a lot! works great

[craigevil]

Works great even in XFCE.