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Terryphi · Last edited by Terryphi on Fri 05 Apr 2013, 11:50; edited 35 times in total

I intend to maintain up-to-date SFS versions of Opera browser. My SFS places Opera files in /opt/opera and Opera runs from /opt/opera/bin/opera. The SFS file contains a custom desktop file, /usr/share/opera.desktop.

The personal settings, bookmarks, cookies, etc are created in /root/.opera . If you are uninstalling a pet or deb of Opera make sure you backup /root/.opera first. Also, ensure that the old opera.desktop file (or opera-browser.desktop file) is removed. If you leave directory /root/.opera in place (or copy it over) the new installation will use those settings.

It has been tested on Racy, Wary, Precise and Slacko. It probably will work with other Puppy variants that include Squashfs 4.0 but I have not tested it. Having several Puppy variants on my PC the SFS route seems the way to go for browsers that constantly need updating.

Opera works with the mplayer-plugin found in Wary and Racy. These are not included in Slacko and Precise but can be copied into /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins where Opera will find them.

This SFS file is intended for FRUGAL installs not full installs. I cannot offer advice about using it with a full install.

FURTHER DETAILS AND DOWNLOAD INSTRUCTIONS ARE AT:

http://terryphillips.org.uk/operasfs.htm

Please bookmark the above page and check back for updated SFS whenever a new version of Opera is released.

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7019 Location: qld

Thanks Terryphi

Working well in spup-056, tested some youtube vids, all good. Barry's blog renders fine, I heard it can be troublesome.

Any reason I couldn't download from your site with wget? Kept getting 403 error, downloaded fine through seamonkey.

Cheers

Terryphi · Posted: Thu 03 Mar 2011, 07:06 Post subject:

01micko: Thanks for testing. Sorry, but wget is blocked across the whole of my site because of attempted bad behaviour using wget on other areas. I have amended the original post so that others are aware. Some troublesome IP addresses are also blocked. Wink

I would be interested to get reports if it works OK on earlier versions of Puppy.

Terryphi · Posted: Fri 11 Mar 2011, 12:20 Post subject:

I have updated the SFS to the latest development snapshot (build 2039.)

See first post in this thread for download location.

Terryphi · Posted: Thu 17 Mar 2011, 03:44 Post subject:

I have updated the SFS to the beta version (build 2048.)

See first post in this thread for download location.

Terryphi · Posted: Wed 30 Mar 2011, 02:15 Post subject:

The usual username and password are required to be able to download the SFS. If you do not know what they are please PM me.

Terryphi · Posted: Thu 07 Apr 2011, 02:41 Post subject:

I have updated the SFS to the release candidate (build 2081.)

See first post in this thread for download location.

Terryphi · Posted: Sun 10 Apr 2011, 12:00 Post subject:

I have updated the SFS to release candidate 3.1 (build 2087.)

See first post in this thread for download location.

Terryphi · Posted: Tue 12 Apr 2011, 02:48 Post subject:

I have updated the SFS to the final version (build 2092.)

See first post in this thread for download location.

You can also try Opera's new free mail service, My Opera Mail, which uses the highly regarded FastMail infrastructure. It has strong spam protection and you can access mail via webmail, POP or IMAP.

Go to https://mail.opera.com/.

Terryphi · Posted: Wed 18 May 2011, 12:00 Post subject:

I have updated the SFS to Opera 11.11 (build 2109) which is the latest official release. It includes bug fixes and an important security fix.

See first post in this thread for download location.

rcrsn51 · Posted: Mon 30 May 2011, 16:00 Post subject:

This package kills CUPS. The files inside belong to the user ftp:ftp instead of root:root.

Terryphi · Posted: Wed 01 Jun 2011, 10:25 Post subject:

Terryphi · Posted: Fri 03 Jun 2011, 02:16 Post subject:

If you downloaded this SFS package before 1 June 2011 please download again. The previous version killed CUPS. Replacing the SFS with the latest version will solve the problem.

Apologies for any inconvenience caused.

Terryphi · Posted: Tue 28 Jun 2011, 05:22 Post subject:

I have updated the SFS to Opera 11.50 (build 1074) which is the latest official release.

See first post in this thread for download location.

lithpr · Joined: 10 Mar 2011 Posts: 186

Running this via SFS-Exec in a Lucid 5.2.5 derivative, posting from this now. Excellent performance, excellent rendering speed, IRC client is great as always. There was a weird delay the first time I opened gmail, but subsequent attempts have loaded fast- it was probably just a momentary glitch on the server-side.

I haven't tried some things like the Opera Unite stuff, but so far, this is top-notch software, packaged perfectly.

Thank you very much!