Opera install in 12.04

William,

By Opera, if your referring to the Opera-Broswer, see the link below:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/OperaBrowser

Hi William. Generaly recomended way to install Opera (and other applications) is to use repository and APT utility - please check <http://deb.opera.com/> but the best way is a reading <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/OperaBrowser> website. There you will find everything what you need.

Best regards.

P.S. if you already have a '.deb' file, you can use 'sudo dpkg -i PKG_NAME' command (without quotes) and enter your password.

Hi, KI7MT was first, but William if you will see a missing dependencies error, run: 'sudo apt-get -f install' command. Sorry for a double answer.

Thanks for all your help, but frankly I'm bamboozled by it all. Surely there's a simple way of installing it? Do this, add that, all too confusing to someone from Windoze.

William,

From your desktop, open a terminal with Ctrl + Alt + T

Then copy and paste each line after the # sign, hitting enter after the pate in the terminal:

# Add the Repository
deb http://deb.opera.com/opera-beta/ stable non-free

# Install the PGP Key
wget -qO - http://deb.opera.com/archive.key | sudo apt-key add -

# If you get authentication warnings, use this
sudo apt-get install debian-archive-keyring

# Update packages lists
sudo apt-get update

Install Opera Browser
sudo apt-get install opera

#exit the terminal
exit

Now open Dash, (Tap the Windows Key / Super Ky) and type in Opera, you shoudl then be presented with an Icon to launch the browser.

Let us know if this fails in any way.

William,

correction below:

# Install Opera Browser
sudo apt-get install opera

gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list.d/opera.list

add this line:

deb http://deb.opera.com/opera-beta/ stable non-free

Will add the repo for you.