Opera

Opera OLPC Edition

Opera has made a special Opera OLPC Edition package. Screenshots are available here.

Installing Opera

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

wget http://snapshot.opera.com/unix/olpc-544/opera-9.12-20070122.10-static-qt.i386-en.rpm
rpm -vi opera-9.12-20070122.10-static-qt.i386-en.rpm

This installs the OLPC Edition, a snapshot of version 9.12. To learn about the most recent builds of Opera, check the Opera desktop blog and select the statically linked rpm packages for Unix/intel-linux.

If you are having trouble with rpm, just grab a tarball

wget http://snapshot.opera.com/unix/olpc-544/opera-9.12-20070122.10-static-qt.i386-en-544.tar.bz2
tar xvf opera-9.12-20070122.10-static-qt.i386-en-544.tar.bz2
cd opera-9.12-20070122.10-static-qt.i386-en-544
sudo ./install.sh

Opera is more than a secure web browser, it's also an RSS and Atom feed reader, bittorrent client, email client, and IRC client.

Opera offers keyboard shortcuts that may come handy:

• q/a navigates up/down in links
• w/s navigates up/down in headings
• 9/0 zooms page out/in
• z/x navigates back/forward in history

Adding an Opera activity

In order for Opera to appear in the list of activities in the GUI, an extra set of files must be installed. To download and install the files, run the following commands in a shell:

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

In order for the change to take effect, restart the X server (ctrl-alt-erase). The files have been tested in build 303.

The Opera activity files have been developed by the CERTI Foundation, a R