Opera 9.0 Preview 2

Jazz · Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 9:22 am Post subject: Opera 9.0 Preview 2

Hi, i just downloaded the opera preview 2 for windows and it simply rocks ! it even shows signs of the famous firefox adblock feature thats been missing from Opera for soo long.

I tried searching for the Opera preview 2 ebuild and couldnt find it..

can someone please post an ebuild to the opera preview2 found here http://snapshot.opera.com/unix/9.0-Preview-2/intel-linux/

Thanx,
jazz
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chetan13 · Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 9:36 am Post subject:

opera's technical preview releases generally don't make it into portage. I think we have to wait for beta1 to be able to emerge opera 9.

nife · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 24 Apr 2003 Posts: 87

its pretty easy just download it then

[code]tar -zxvf opera-9.0-20060206.6*.tar.gz
cd opera-9.0-20060206.6*
sh install.sh --prefix=/opt/opera
[code]
Thats it. It will ask you a couple of questions and then you are are installed[/code]

rwf · Apprentice Joined: 24 Jan 2004 Posts: 234 Location: mi.us

You should really read the Opera change log before you install it (sh install.sh method) and backup your ~/.opera/ directory. You also might want to try it first before installing it.

Jazz · Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 4:51 pm Post subject:

thanx, works with the install.sh method.
Jazz
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chetan13 · Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 8:06 am Post subject:

is video.google.com's googleplayer.swf working with this new release? The flashplayer loads but the video doesn't start. It just says "buffering".

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BlackEdder · Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2006 11:36 pm Post subject:

Rick · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 18 Dec 2002 Posts: 141

Hmm, firefox isn't displaying flash at all over here so I didn't know that.

Sorry to misinform :oops:

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troworld · Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2006 6:36 pm Post subject:

nixnut · Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2006 6:55 pm Post subject:

Moved from Other Things Gentoo to Unsupported Software.
Not in portage, not supported.
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gimpel · Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2006 9:28 pm Post subject:

troworld · Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2006 6:46 am Post subject:

Okay. I reinstalled netscape-flash and now it works in Firefox, but not in Opera. AFAIK, Opera uses the same plugin. So, what's the problem?

rwf · Apprentice Joined: 24 Jan 2004 Posts: 234 Location: mi.us

http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=122926

albanard · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 22 Nov 2003 Posts: 92

Which one do I download? The site:

http://snapshot.opera.com/unix/9.0-Preview-2/intel-linux/

Has several versions before the "-shared" section. Also, it doesn't look like thats the very latest version. When I try to go to the latest downloadable version:

http://www.opera.com/download/index.dml?ver=9.0b

I'm supposed to select which OS etc. Selecting Gentoo just makes it force me into downloading 8.54. Trying the other versions seems to just get me .deb and .rpm downloads, even if I tick "Download this package in TAR.GZ format". So which is the best one to download?

pussi · l33t Joined: 08 May 2004 Posts: 727 Location: Finland

I't also in portage now:

RobertDavid · Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2006 10:42 am Post subject:

The last is Opera 9.0 Beta 2 (not Preview 2).. !! and its not in portage, but I'm trying to find some .gz or .bz2 file... (it looks like there are only rpm and deb)
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RobertDavid · Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2006 1:28 pm Post subject:

I have tryed Opera 9.0 Beta 2 and it works fine,, you have to extract it from rpm (rpm2tar) and than copy it to /usr/lib/opera and /usr/share/opera, and than run ./opera

Only problem I find is with skiping back, forward using 6,7 mouse button (sometimes it doesnt work)

But its faster than Firefox 1.5.0.3 (less cpu usage, many pages renders faster), only some pages renders slow during scrolling (www.gentoo-portage.com)

I have tryed Firefox optimize to -Os, -O2 and opera was always faster.

I would be very happy if opera will support plugins like firefox...
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Gentree · Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2006 3:52 pm Post subject:

ftp://ftp.opera.com/pub/opera/linux/900/beta2/en/i386/shared/

tar.bz2 for beta2

cludge ebuild:
echo "www-client/opera" >> /etc/portage/package.unmask
emerge opera # gets you * pre2
now edit the ebuild with the following lines and save it as opera-beta2.ebuild

RobertDavid · Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2006 4:58 pm Post subject:

Nice.. Thanks for that link. I'll also wait for official ebuild, and the installation script works great, so there is no need for unsupported ebuild now..
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