Posts tagged with "linux"
Monday, January 9, 2012 9:05:53 PM
freebsd, titlebar, decoration, linux
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Previously I wrote about
themes on Linux/FreeBSD. I thought people might be interested in a couple of updated screen shots.
The changes? The most obvious are Minimise, Maximise/Restore and close button decorations, plus lots of little bug fixes.
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Sunday, October 30, 2011 10:15:00 PM
freebsd, unix, testing, linux
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Ok, let me start by saying I don't have a clear focus for this particular blog post. Really these are just some thoughts swimming around my head, but since it is late on Sunday and there is nothing good to watch on TV I thought I'd type them up anyway.
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Thursday, October 13, 2011 10:35:01 AM
themes, titlebar, decoration, opera
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Today we released the
Opera 12.00 Alpha and with that our initial work on
hardware acceleration. However, that was not the only new feature we are showing off. The other was
Themes.
Unfortunately, the Linux/FreeBSD team were not ready with our initial Theme implementation in time for the Alpha. However, I wouldn't want you to think that it isn't well under way.
So here is a screen shot taken using an internal test build, showing off the Monster theme by Jon Hicks.
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Wednesday, September 28, 2011 3:40:21 PM
pd, linux, freebsd, windows
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Opera for Linux and FreeBSD has long had a command line switch called '-pd' that allows you to specify any directory as an Opera profile (settings) directory. This is handy as it means you can test multiple configurations from just one installation. As a side effect, it also make it very easy to simulate a clean install. Now as of Opera Next 12.00-1076, this feature has come to our other two desktop platforms!
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Tuesday, September 13, 2011 11:49:53 AM
mepis, debian, repackage, Dependencies
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Edit: deb.opera.com has been updated with repackaged files that have corrected dependencies. My original post is included below for historical reasons.A few users have reported problems with installing Opera 11.51 (or Opera Next 12.00 snapshots) on older Debian based distros due to the fact that our packages depend on versions of libfontconfig1 and libglib2 that are more recent than are available in the official repositories of those distros.
In fact Opera will actually run with slightly older versions of those libs. The problem arose because the packaging script we use picked up the versions of libfontconfig1 and libglib2 installed on the machine that built Opera and set those
versions as dependencies.
In the future we will try to be more careful to set dependencies to better match the libs that are actually needed. In the mean time I have some work arounds for you.
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Saturday, December 18, 2010 10:52:07 AM
RPM, install, DEB, TAR
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Download the latest stable build from
here. The website should help you select the right package. You should also check if your distribution already offers Opera directly in their own repositories, many do for example Arch, Gentoo, LinuxMint, openSUSE, Pardus, Salix, etc.
If for some reason you are getting the packages directly from the Opera
FTP server, downloading an Opera Next snapshot (development build) from the
Desktop Team Blog, already have local copies of the packages or simply use a distro that is not listed and does not provide Opera directly within its repositories, here is a guide to help you match the package to your distro of choice, along with some installation instructions.
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Friday, December 17, 2010 5:26:38 PM
variants, kde, gtk, linux
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We occasionally struggle in the Opera *nix team with the vast range of setups we support. And from time to time I must admit I grumble a little about this. However often when I do so I get responses like, "FreeBSD and Linux are so similar they are almost like one OS. Why is it any harder to support FreeBSD and Linux than it is to support different versions of MacOSX?".
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Friday, January 22, 2010 8:20:09 AM
evenes, opera, Arch, linux
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For video to work in 10.50 (Evenes) on Linux/UNIX, you need the the GStreamer Multimedia Framework, the Base Plugins package and the main Good libraries. This ensures that the following are available on your system: libgstautodetect.so, libgstogg.so, libgsttheora.so, libgstvorbis.so, libgstwavparse.so.
On some distros there is one GStreamer Good package that contains everything and on others this is split into two packages, GStreamer Good (the main libraries) and GStreamer Good Plugins (the plugin libraries).
If you don't have these installed and are unsure exactly which packages will provide these libraries for your distro, you can use your distro's favoured method of searching for packages. Typically this will be search options within your package manager, but it may also be a dedicated wesbite. Generally you can install the GStreamer Good Plugins package and your package manager's dependency resolution will ensure you get any further packages you need. If you have a distro that splits "Good", you can be more selective and just install the main Good libraries, leaving out the Good plugins.
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Sunday, January 17, 2010 5:01:55 PM
TAR, Arch, linux, SLACKWARE
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Edit: If you just want to remove your preferences read this.From time to time I get requests from users for help uninstalling Opera. Whilst we would obviously prefer you didn't do this
, it can be a legitimate problem for users of our older tar packages and something I have written about briefly before. The difficulty is that although a list of files is echoed back during installation, we didn't used to provide any uninstaller with these packages.
Another reason you might want to uninstall Opera is that it is a sensible idea to remove old installs made by the Opera tar package install.sh script, prior to upgrading to more modern versions of Opera 10.51 and above. This avoids the potential for upgrade issues caused by our changed tar install procedure from this point onwards.
Below I will explain how you could manually remove a copy of the Opera Linux 9.64, 10.00, 10.10, 10.11 or the 10.20 desktop widgets labs release (and possibly older versions but I haven't checked) that was installed via the Opera supplied install.sh script.
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Wednesday, November 4, 2009 4:13:05 PM
testing, Arch, linux, distros
When I joined Opera in January of this year I was given the option to pick the distro of my choice. I've distro hopped for a while but initially thought I would go with Ubuntu due to its popularity and the likelihood that a large percentage of our users would also be using it. As it happened, on my first day I needed a working machine almost straight away and since I had a Mandriva CD to hand (I got it free with a magazine I had picked up the day before), I figured why not?
Indeed it turned out that I quite enjoyed Mandriva but I soon realised it was not as simple as picking a single distribution. When I initially started going through the Linux/UNIX bugs I noticed (unsurprisingly) that certain bugs will only show on certain distros, certain OSes, certain architectures or only with one version of Qt.
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