[CentOS] Opera browser on CentOS

[H]

On 05/20/2019 05:24 PM, Nux! wrote:
> Yes, it will not work on EL6, it requires newer glibc and gtk3.
> It's time to leave EL6 behind (or stick to Firefox).
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "H" <agents at meddatainc.com>
>> To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org>
>> Sent: Monday, 20 May, 2019 15:50:53
>> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Opera browser on CentOS
>> On 05/20/2019 03:35 PM, Greg Bailey wrote:
>>> On 5/20/19 6:22 AM, H wrote:
>>>> Is anyone running the Opera browser on Centos 7 or 6? While not available in a
>>>> yum-repository, it seems to be available as a snap-package. Not familiar with
>>>> those yet but curious if the browser is worthwhile to run. I have generally
>>>> found Firefox less useful/compatible than Chromium but would also like
>>>> alternatives, particularly since Opera defaults to a VPN-connection.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> It is available in opera's yum repository:
>>>
>>> [opera]
>>> name=Opera packages
>>> type=rpm-md
>>> baseurl=https://rpm.opera.com/rpm
>>> gpgcheck=1
>>> gpgkey=https://rpm.opera.com/rpmrepo.key
>>> enabled=1
>>>
>>> I only run it very occasionally, in cases where I want a second login session to
>>> AWS that's different from my primary Firefox session, etc.
>>>
>>> -Greg
>>>
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>> It seems that Opera does not run under Centos 6 since the dependencies won't
>> install? I get the following messages:
>>
>> Resolving Dependencies
>> --> Running transaction check
>> ---> Package opera-developer.x86_64 0:62.0.3323.0-0 will be installed
>> --> Processing Dependency: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.17)(64bit) for package:
>> opera-developer-62.0.3323.0-0.x86_64
>> --> Processing Dependency: libgdk-3.so.0()(64bit) for package:
>> opera-developer-62.0.3323.0-0.x86_64
>> --> Processing Dependency: libatk-bridge-2.0.so.0()(64bit) for package:
>> opera-developer-62.0.3323.0-0.x86_64
>> --> Processing Dependency: libgtk-3.so.0()(64bit) for package:
>> opera-developer-62.0.3323.0-0.x86_64
>> --> Processing Dependency: libatspi.so.0()(64bit) for package:
>> opera-developer-62.0.3323.0-0.x86_64
>> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
>> Error: Package: opera-developer-62.0.3323.0-0.x86_64 (opera)
>>            Requires: libgtk-3.so.0()(64bit)
>> Error: Package: opera-developer-62.0.3323.0-0.x86_64 (opera)
>>            Requires: libgdk-3.so.0()(64bit)
>> Error: Package: opera-developer-62.0.3323.0-0.x86_64 (opera)
>>            Requires: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.17)(64bit)
>> Error: Package: opera-developer-62.0.3323.0-0.x86_64 (opera)
>>            Requires: libatk-bridge-2.0.so.0()(64bit)
>> Error: Package: opera-developer-62.0.3323.0-0.x86_64 (opera)
>>            Requires: libatspi.so.0()(64bit)
>>  You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
>>  You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
>>
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OK, thank you. I do indeed plan to migrate this laptop to CentOS 7 this or next week...