Talk:Opera

• Is it possible to open a xterm window in sugar? alt+shift+F11 doesn't work for me. I am using olpc-devel 207 in a real X0.

As recently noted in the B1 Release Notes, the latest builds are launching "Memphis" from alt+shift+F12 instead. Note that Memphis has bugs--it only seems to reliably launch the first time and it is not Sugarize, so you cannot run it with other activities very well, and it is very very slow. Let's hope that this is a temporary situation. --Walter 08:21, 5 January 2007 (EST)

Probably the solution is to switch to a Linux console with the 12x22 font (framebuffer console), giving a 100x40 terminal. The next-best alternative is a full-screen genuine xterm, with a big font and the scrollbar enabled, possibly with a little helper app to do any Sugar-related work related to shutdown and activity switching. Nothing else is reliable and compatible. The xterm solution may be better done with a 600x450 screen resolution (divide down by 2x) and the programmer-friendly "fixed" font. AlbertCahalan 22:37, 23 February 2007 (EST)

Easy for the tech saavy, the rest of us need help

Re: "Installing Opera on test machines is easy. From a shell, run these commands as root"

Sorry to say I don't have a clue what the above means. I have no idea how to do it, but using Opera might mean I could possibly figure out how on earth to use the browser.

You can login as root by typing "su - root" at the command prompt, without the quotes.

Please try the revised instructions here.

Quickstart

Well, for the most part the above means that you'll want to be fairly knowledgeable with Linux administration before you attempt it. Here's the gist, though:

1. Open up a terminal window
2. cd /tmp
3. wget http://snapshot.opera.com/unix/olpc-544/opera-9.12-20070122.10-static-qt.i386-en.rpm
4. rpm -vi opera-9.12-20070122.10-static-qt.i386-en.rpm

At this point you should be able to run the browser.

1. wget http://people.opera.com/howcome/2007/olpc/opera-activity.tar.gz
2. cd /usr/share/activities
3. tar xvzf /tmp/opera-activity.tar.gz

Now restart sugar (ctl-alt-erase) and look for the Opera logo on your activity bar. Thither 07:04, 21 December 2007 (EST)

Oh, brother, if that's the quick start, I'm in trouble.

(new anon user) Do I understand correctly - open up terminal app and type that series of commands? Sounds simple enough. Whatcan go wrong that one would need to be a poweruser before attempting - warn me before I start -and is this only for test machines? Will this work on the lean green machine itself? I've never used linux before, but I am a former computer programmer, so the above doesn't scare me - I just wonder if something can go wrong I won't know how to fix.

Unable to get newest versions of java and flash to run

This may be expected since the build was frozen in time, but could not get Adobe Flash 9.0.115 to run properly in Opera, but 9.0.48 works fine. The same goes for java: jre-6u3 did not work (seems that it flashed up the applets briefly but then I was unable to interact with them), downgraded to jre1.5.0_13 and it works great. Should the page be updated to reflect this (or is this just my personal experience)? --bbb

Help

I've used Opera since the early days when the program could fit on a 3.5" floppy, so I was very happy to hear that the browser would run on the XO. The problem is that I'm a complete Linux illiterate, so if there are any problems, I have no idea where things are going wrong.

I had no problems getting opera downloaded. When I tried Step #2. install Opera using rpm:, I get the following error message:

bash: sudo: command not found

Have I typed something incorrectly? BlankVerse 17:04, 23 December 2007 (EST)

I don't have a Build 650 machine--maybe you need to use su instead on that software release. Try:

su
rpm -iv opera...

Neither approach using either sudo or su work on my machine. My machine does recognize the sudo command at all and the listed use of su generates a syntax error (double checked the typing). What's next?

I had to use

su -

for it to work, not just

su

--Tomhannen 16:09, 26 December 2007 (EST)