How to install opera?

[Gilles Gravier]

Hi!

On 03/06/2010 05:10, Peng Yu wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Allan Javier Aguilar Castillo
> <elleuthe at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> 2010/6/2 Peng Yu <pengyu.ut at gmail.com>
>>     
>>> I have the latest ubuntu LTS. But I don't find opera. How to
>>> install opera?
>>>       
>>    Hello! You may add the Opera repository for Debian (it
>> installs DEB packages and run very well). Modify (with
>> privileges) the '/etc/apt/sources.list' file:
>>       Alt F2
>>       gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
>>    Add the following line at the end:
>>       deb http://deb.opera.com/opera/ lenny non-free
>>    From the terminal, run these commands:
>>       sudo wget -O - http://deb.opera.com/archive.key | sudo apt-key add -
>>       sudo aptitude update
>>       sudo aptitude install opera
>>    And that is it. Enjoy!
>>     
> I'm wondering if editing system files may cause problems when I want
> to upgrade the operating systems in the future.
>
>   
It won't.

When upgrading versions of Ubuntu, any repository that is not part of
the official "distro" gets simply "turned off". After upgrade, you just
go to the repository manager, and change "lucid" to "whatever the new
one is called" and check the "enable" box again. Sometimes (some
repositories are not version specific) you just simply check the
"enable" box and voila. (Example for Logitech's squeezeserver repository).

So no problems to be expected when doing that.

Gilles