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Installing Opera 11 on Asus eee 701
Has anyone tried to install Opera 11 on Asus eee 701? I found some tutorials but all are very old and are referring ancient Opera versions and are no longer applicable.I tried downloading Opera for Xandros eeePc Edition deb and installing it but got a meaningless error. I tried installing from the command line (to get a more verbose error) and it said:
failed to exec lzma -dc: No such file or directory
<decompress> returned error exit status 2
Segmentation fault
Any ideas?
How old is the Linux on your system? If this is the original version of Linux which came with the first Eee PC, I'm afraid current versions of Opera would no longer support it. If you've upgraded along the way then it ought to work
There are still old versions available for download if you want to go that route. If you select "Other versions" from the download page you can get a list going back to the 10.00 beta versions, and a link to the archive site for really old versions. I'd guess that 10.11 might work ...
You could also download directly from the FTP site ftp://ftp.opera.com/pub/opera/linux/ if you know the name of the package you need.
There are still old versions available for download if you want to go that route. If you select "Other versions" from the download page you can get a list going back to the 10.00 beta versions, and a link to the archive site for really old versions. I'd guess that 10.11 might work ...
You could also download directly from the FTP site ftp://ftp.opera.com/pub/opera/linux/ if you know the name of the package you need.
The OS is very old. 2008 I think. I updated what was possible, but I think Asus never bothered to maintain that distro. Only a few crucial updates were released according to my knowledge (and my apt-get says the same). I'll see if I can install Easy Peasy instead. If it doesn't go well, I'll try with older Operas.
Thanks for the info
Thanks for the info
The dpkg included with it is too old to open our deb files which use LZMA compression. Download a bzip2 or gzip compressed tar package instead and install as per the directions at the end of this page.
Personally I would wipe the original OS given it is no longer supported and put a more modern distro on. I owned a 701 and quickly got fed up with the toy OS. I have run several distros on it including Ubuntu, Arch and SalixOS.
Personally I would wipe the original OS given it is no longer supported and put a more modern distro on. I owned a 701 and quickly got fed up with the toy OS. I have run several distros on it including Ubuntu, Arch and SalixOS.
Alternatively on another machine you could extract the top level contents of the the deb. Debian packages are just 'ar' archives (look at the ar man page). Inside you will find three files:
debian-binary control.tar.gz data.tar.lzmaUncompress the data.tar.lzma, to data.tar and then recompress with gzip to make a data.tar.gz. Finally use ar to recreate the main archive from the internal files. You should then be able to install this edited deb on your eeePC.
Ahh ... what the hell! Here I have done it for you:
http://people.opera.com/ruario/opera_11.10.2092_i386.deb
I haven't tested it but it should work.
http://people.opera.com/ruario/opera_11.10.2092_i386.deb
I haven't tested it but it should work.
Thanks for the effort man!
I'll give it a shot, but in the long run, replacing the OS seems to be a must.
I'll give it a shot, but in the long run, replacing the OS seems to be a must.
Hi,
I'm pulling out my Eee PC again after the longest time, and I'm still using the version of 11.10 that I got from this thread.
I suppose I could use some precious vacation time trying to bang together a suitable .deb for 12.2 according to the above instructions, but perhaps some kind soul has already done that already? Or is 12.2 sufficiently different from 11.10 that there is no hope of getting it to run on this outdated OS?
I'm pulling out my Eee PC again after the longest time, and I'm still using the version of 11.10 that I got from this thread.
I suppose I could use some precious vacation time trying to bang together a suitable .deb for 12.2 according to the above instructions, but perhaps some kind soul has already done that already?
Or is 12.2 sufficiently different from 11.10 that there is no hope of getting it to run on this outdated OS?Just stick Puppy Linux on it.
Opera 12.14 - 1738 (Portable 32bit) on Win8 Pro, Or portable versions of Linux Mint 14 or Puppy Linux Upup Precise - 3.8.3.1
You can repack within a couple of minutes, e.g.:
Here is that repack:
http://people.opera.com/ruario/opera_12.02.1578_i386.deb
That said, you really should replace the OS. It is not supported and hence receives no security updates. I used to have the eeePC 701 Surf and ran Arch and later SalixOS (both of which have the latest Opera in their repositories).
P.S. The installed OS was horrible in any case, even before it became outdated.
$ cd /tmp $ wget -q http://ftp.opera.com/pub/opera/linux/1202/opera_12.02.1578_i386.deb $ ar x opera_12.02.1578_i386.deb $ rm opera_12.02.1578_i386.deb $ xz -d < data.tar.lzma | gzip -9 > data.tar.gz $ fakeroot ar r opera_12.02.1578_i386.deb debian-binary control.tar.gz data.tar.gz ar: creating opera_12.02.1578_i386.deb $ scp -q opera_12.02.1578_i386.deb people.opera.com:public_html/.
Here is that repack:
http://people.opera.com/ruario/opera_12.02.1578_i386.deb
That said, you really should replace the OS. It is not supported and hence receives no security updates. I used to have the eeePC 701 Surf and ran Arch and later SalixOS (both of which have the latest Opera in their repositories).
P.S. The installed OS was horrible in any case, even before it became outdated.
Thank you very much! ar doesn't appear to be a standard component of the Xandros install, so I figured I would have to find some other computer running Linux if I wanted to repack it.
My primary concern with updating the OS is that I might not be able to get suitable drivers, particularly for the wifi. Is that a problem?
The other concern is that this is actually a 2G Surf, and I understand that it's extremely difficult to get any current OS to fit into such a tiny space.
My primary concern with updating the OS is that I might not be able to get suitable drivers, particularly for the wifi. Is that a problem?
The other concern is that this is actually a 2G Surf, and I understand that it's extremely difficult to get any current OS to fit into such a tiny space.
Originally posted by Jorpho:
Thank you very much! ar doesn't appear to be a standard component of the Xandros install,
You would need to install binutils (which provided ar) and use xzdec instead of xz to do the decompression as Xandros is so old it almost certainly wouldn't have offered it.
Originally posted by Jorpho:
My primary concern with updating the OS is that I might not be able to get suitable drivers, particularly for the wifi. Is that a problem?
It wasn't for me.
Originally posted by Jorpho:
The other concern is that this is actually a 2G Surf, and I understand that it's extremely difficult to get any current OS to fit into such a tiny space.
A basic install of Salix fit for me. If the install method of Arch doesn't scare you you can make a pretty small desktop setup.
LinuxMint7 suggested Puppy Linux and whilst I am not really a fan myself it should be very small.
Another option if you are looking for a tiny distro might be SliTaz (they also offer Opera I believe via a script that fetches the latest version). I have never used it on an eeePC 701 Surf but it may work. Run some searches and/or ask over in their forums about its compatibility with your hardware.
Well, Opera 12 seemed to be working smoothly and efficiently, until I ran smack into the infamous inodes problem. I had nearly forgotten about that, to my detriment. (In case you are unfamiliar, the default Xandros install uses unionfs and has a nasty tendency to run out of inodes, visible through "df -i", as a result of too many temporary files being present on the drive - meaning that the drive will declare itself to be full even if there's plenty of space left.)
I'm not sure if Opera 12 exacerbates this problem more than Opera 11, but I attempted to cure the problem by doing "rm -rf .opera" from my user directory after I couldn't find out where Opera stores its cache files and/or crash logs that might be responsible. So where exactly are those locations?
I'm not sure if Opera 12 exacerbates this problem more than Opera 11, but I attempted to cure the problem by doing "rm -rf .opera" from my user directory after I couldn't find out where Opera stores its cache files and/or crash logs that might be responsible. So where exactly are those locations?
Thank you for that. It suddenly occurred to me I could just do ls -aR and find the culprit that way. I assume you mean ~/.opera/thumbnails and not ~/.opera/images, as the latter does not exist and the former does have plenty of clutter.
If I make ~/.opera/icons read-only, will Opera be able to cope? Or is there some safer way to disable icon caching? I already set the disk cache to zero.
Also, what is ~/.opera/pstorage , and is there some way to disable that? Even more clutter there.
If I make ~/.opera/icons read-only, will Opera be able to cope? Or is there some safer way to disable icon caching? I already set the disk cache to zero.
Also, what is ~/.opera/pstorage , and is there some way to disable that? Even more clutter there.
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