Opera 9.0 Preview 2

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Jazz · Post by **Jazz** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 9:22 am

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-Prev ... tel-linux/

Thanx,
jazz

chetan13 · Post by **chetan13** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 9:36 am

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 · Post by **nife** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 1:22 pm

its pretty easy just download it then

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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

rwf · Post by **rwf** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 2:08 pm

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.

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cd opera-9.0-20060206.6* 
./opera &

Jazz · Post by **Jazz** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 4:51 pm

thanx, works with the install.sh method.
Jazz

chetan13 · Post by **chetan13** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 8:06 am

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".

Rick · Post by **Rick** » Sun Feb 19, 2006 11:28 pm

chetan13 wrote: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".

That's actually a flash problem, not opera.
Macromedia hasn't been kind enough to release flash 8 for linux, and the result is that you can't play video's from google's video and some other sites.
Those features are flash 8 only, and we're still stuck with 7

BlackEdder · Post by **BlackEdder** » Sun Feb 19, 2006 11:36 pm

Rick wrote:That's actually a flash problem, not opera.
Macromedia hasn't been kind enough to release flash 8 for linux, and the result is that you can't play video's from google's video and some other sites.
Those features are flash 8 only, and we're still stuck with 7

It works fine with firefox under linux, so that can't be true.

Rick · Post by **Rick** » Sun Feb 19, 2006 11:40 pm

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

Sorry to misinform

troworld · Post by **troworld** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 6:36 pm

BlackEdder wrote:
Rick wrote:That's actually a flash problem, not opera.
Macromedia hasn't been kind enough to release flash 8 for linux, and the result is that you can't play video's from google's video and some other sites.
Those features are flash 8 only, and we're still stuck with 7
It works fine with firefox under linux, so that can't be true.

Doesn't work for me. I can't watch google videos or youtube. They're just "buffering" or "loading". Which version of netscape-flash are you using?

nixnut · Post by **nixnut** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 6:55 pm

Moved from Other Things Gentoo to Unsupported Software.
Not in portage, not supported.

gimpel · Post by **gimpel** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 9:28 pm

troworld wrote:
BlackEdder wrote:
Rick wrote:That's actually a flash problem, not opera.
Macromedia hasn't been kind enough to release flash 8 for linux, and the result is that you can't play video's from google's video and some other sites.
Those features are flash 8 only, and we're still stuck with 7
It works fine with firefox under linux, so that can't be true.
Doesn't work for me. I can't watch google videos or youtube. They're just "buffering" or "loading". Which version of netscape-flash are you using?

works fine here too in firefox, netscape-flash-7.0.61

troworld · Post by **troworld** » Sun Feb 26, 2006 6:46 am

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 · Post by **rwf** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 4:37 am

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

albanard · Post by **albanard** » Thu Jun 08, 2006 9:54 pm

Which one do I download? The site:

http://snapshot.opera.com/unix/9.0-Prev ... tel-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 · Post by **pussi** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 5:49 am

I't also in portage now:

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echo www-client/opera >> /etc/portage/package.unmask
emerge opera

RobertDavid · Post by **RobertDavid** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 10:42 am

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)

RobertDavid · Post by **RobertDavid** » Sat Jun 10, 2006 1:28 pm

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...

Gentree · Post by **Gentree** » Sat Jun 10, 2006 3:52 pm

ftp://ftp.opera.com/pub/opera/linux/900 ... 86/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

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OPERAVER="9.0-20060518"
OPERAFTPDIR="900/beta2/en"
OPERASUFF="en-284"

S=${WORKDIR}/${A/.tar.bz2/}

DESCRIPTION="Opera web browser."
HOMEPAGE="http://www.opera.com"

it will unpack the bz2 and fail with a msg about a patch , but the job is done.

Q & D , can't be arsed to tweek the rest in , I'll wait for the ebuild operaeum officalis.

RobertDavid · Post by **RobertDavid** » Sat Jun 10, 2006 4:58 pm

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..