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[Ninjakitten]

Did some experimenting and it looks like the latest version of Adobe Flash Player does NOT work at all with Opera on the XO.  I installed an OLDER version and it "worked."  I say "worked" because it runs, but very slowly, youtube video look more like fast slide shows than videos.  However is about how well (or badly) it worked on the default browser.  Instructions on installing an older version of flash player are here:

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Adobe_Flash

Note that if you did install the latest version you definitely have to UNINSTALL it before installing the old version, but the above link gives those directions too.

Which older version worked for you?

[Debbie]

I've found that if I actually select the grey circle from the ring on the sugar UI it takes me back to Opera, but selecting the original opera icon brings up the grey screen of nothing-ness!

I'm also getting the blank grey screen when I launch Opera from the activities row, and I also get the grey circle when I'm in Home view.  But clicking on that circle doesn't do anything for me. ??

I guess that something went wrong during the install of Opera...how do I delete everything and try again?  Damn, the text size in the command line view is miniscule.

[GregYohn]

Hi!

Thanks for the help Wayan!

I ran cd opera-9.12-20070122.10-static-qt.i386-en-544 before the ./install.sh command or it would not work. I saw it in another message after your message was shown.

I am running Opera from the Terminal using the command SU then pressed enter. I typed OPERA enter and it started to operate.

Its performance beats the default browser noticeably.

Now, I need to get it as a SUGAR Activity.

Greg

[BlankVerse]

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. However, when I tried Step #2 of the instructions on the OLPC wiki's Opera page (install Opera using rpm:) I get the following error message:

     bash: sudo: command not found

Have I typed something incorrectly, or I doing something else wrong?

[GregYohn]

Hi!

Hit the enter key after each bold entry. Wait for the prompt to reappear before going to the next step.

Wayan wrote:
- Hit ctl-alt-neighborhood to get to the console.

- at login type: root

- at password you don't need to type anything. I thought it would be good to add a little security by way of a root password, so I typed in a password and followed the prompts until I'd typed it properly twice.
tar xvzf opera-activity.tar.gz
- at the bash prompt type the line in bold below. It goes to the opera site and gets the olpc files in a compressed tarball (yes, that's a technical term) and downloads it into the xo. It takes a while, but you get a nice ascii progress indicator.
      wget http://snapshot.opera.com/unix/olpc-544/opera-9.12-20070122.10-static-qt.i386-en-544.tar.bz2

- uncompress the file with this command:
      tar xvf opera-9.12-20070122.10-static-qt.i386-en-544.tar.bz2

I added the Green Comments ---Greg

- install the file. I didn't have any luck with the directions as shown in the link. I simply typed:
       ./install.sh

- now install the file needed to have opera show up in sugar. First you have to get to the activities folder. At the prompt type: cd /usr/share/activities

- download the files by typing:
    wget http://people.opera.com/howcome/2007/olpc/opera-activity.tar.gz

- uncompress by typing: tar xvzf opera-activity.tar.gz

- get out of console by hitting ctl+alt+home (circle with the small dot at the top left of the keyboard)

- restart sugar by hitting ctl+alt+erase

- find opera in the activities menu and browse.

I could not do as an Activity, so I ran using SU from the Terminal Activity and then OPERA afterwards.

[RegAubry]

Greg,

"I ran cd opera-9.12-20070122.10-static-qt.i386-en-544 before the ./install.sh command or it would not work. I saw it in another message after your message was shown."

The person who wrote that later said nevermind, later in that same post.

My directions for that step were to enter:

cd  opera-9.12-20070122.10-static-qt.i386-en-544.tar.bz2

before the step to install the file (./install.sh)

(Or as someone later said, use the up arrow several times to pull up the former entry and modify it (to save on typing that long line).)

[gweigleb]

They say in OPERA "It aint over 'til the fat lady sings."

Well, it's over! The fat lady has sung and OPERA is installed (finally)!

I used the Wiki Post http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Opera with Terminal and with the help with the help of a previous post (and a few modifications).

My changes are in red

There are two parts to installing Opera on the XO:

install the "Opera RPM"; this step is required.
install the "Opera activity"; this step is optional.
[edit] Installing the Opera RPM
Before you begin, make sure you are connected to the Internet.

From the Terminal activity :

1. use wget to download Opera:

wget http://snapshot.opera.com/unix/olpc-544/opera-9.12-20070122.10-static-qt.i386-en.rpm
If you successfully downloaded the Opera RPM, you should see a message such as:

(38.82 MB/s) = 'opera-9.12-20070122.10-static-qt.i386-en.rpm' saved [7624397]
If you get an error message such as:

... 404: Not Found
or

... failed:Name or service not known.
chances are you have a typo in the pathname.

If you see an error message such as:

Resolving snapshot.opera.com... failed: Temporary failure in name resolution.
chances are you are not connected to the Internet.

here I put at the bash prompt:
dirname opera

at the bash prompt:
su

2. install Opera using rpm:

here I left off sudo and started with rpm

sudo rpm -vi opera-9.12-20070122.10-static-qt.i386-en.rpm
If you see an error message such as:

error: can't create transaction lock on /var/lib/rpm/...
you probably forgot to prepend sudo to the command line.

I received a couple of error messages but they were ignored and a User License agreement popped up. I clicked agree and opera started.
I haven't did the clean up yet and I also run OPERA from the Terminal

su
opera


3. clean up

rm opera-9.12-20070122.10-static-qt.i386-en.rpm
4. Testing the install: run Opera from the Terminal activity:

opera

[Atif]

I'm also getting the blank grey screen when I launch Opera from the activities row, and I also get the grey circle when I'm in Home view.  But clicking on that circle doesn't do anything for me. ??

I guess that something went wrong during the install of Opera...how do I delete everything and try again?  Damn, the text size in the command line view is miniscule.

Wait, so has Opera never run for you?  That is odd/bad, if you got through the installation well enough to get the icon appearing...it would hopefully be working.

If you try to re-install it you can go through the terminal activity instead of using console.  After starting the terminal activity through the Sugar GUI just type "su" (which means super user) and then you should be able to install Opera just like if you had logged in as root from console

[Atif]

Which older version worked for you?

The first one mentioned on the page:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Adobe_Flash

Specifically the: flash-plugin-9.0.48.0-release.i386.rpm

It should only be one command to install it.  If you go to the link it even tells you how to un-install it if you have the newer version, using the sudo yum command...

[Ninjakitten]

Which older version worked for you?

The first one mentioned on the page:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Adobe_Flash

Specifically the: flash-plugin-9.0.48.0-release.i386.rpm

It should only be one command to install it.  If you go to the link it even tells you how to un-install it if you have the newer version, using the sudo yum command...

Damn.  I tried that one, didn't work for me.  Maybe it was just the page I was testing it with... how weird.

[timcel]

I seem to get stuck right at the point of downloading JAVA. After creating the directory as you instructed, I get a message back that says.... I don't have "write access to that directory". Sorry for being such a Linux neophyte, but can you help with this?

Tim

It appears to access a T-mobile hotspot you need Java installed.  I did this and was able to get the log in screen (but could log in because OLPC hasn't given me the info).  Once I can, I will try logging in to verify that you can use your XO with the hot spots.

To duplicate what I did FIRST you need to install Opera as described above, earlier in this thread/topic/forum.

Open a terminal and type "su" to enter super user mode (this is similar to being root).  If you check your path by typing "pwd" you should get

/home/olpc

I then created a java directory with:

mkdir java

Once that is done then go to this website with Opera on your XO:

http://www.java.com/en/download/manual.jsp

Under the linux section (with the little penguin) select the "Linux RPM (self-extracting file) filesize: 17.74 MB "
And you will get a dialog box asking where you want to save it, select the "/home/olpc/java" directory that you should have.

On this same page you can then select "Instructions" to the right of where you just clicked to download the file.  *NOTE - it helps if you can look at these instructions on ANOTHER computer as you will need to type them into the terminal* To directly to the directions follow this link: http://www.java.com/en/download/help/5000010500.xml#rpm

So go back to your terminal.  You do NOT have to do the first few steps of the instructions.  Just make sure you are in the java directory you created earlier.  In my case:

cd /home/olpc/java

Now follow steps 4-8 of the instructions (again: http://www.java.com/en/download/help/5000010500.xml#rpm)
to install Java.  YOU ARE NOT DONE... Now type:

cd /usr/lib/opera/plugins

And you have to make a link by typing:

ln -s /user/java/jrel.6.0_03/lib/i386

*NOTE that it might be jrel.6.0_02...for some reason I had _03 the second time I attempted to install it. It should be clear from your previous steps what the exact sub-directory name is...*

Now reboot/restart you XO and start up Opera.

I'm not sure if the following steps (taken from - http://www.opera.com/linux/docs/plugins/install/#java ) are necessary, but I did them so they can't hurt...

Go to Tools > Preferences > Advanced > Content, and click the "Java options" button. If this button is dimmed, first check the "Enable Java" option.

Click the "Choose" button for the "Java path" field. The path you are looking for is the directory of your Java installation containing the files libjava.so and libawt.so, for example /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun/jre/lib/i386 on a Debian system. The command line tools indicated above should locate the directory.

Click the "Validate Java path" button. If you get an error message, try again with a different path.

Click "OK" to save your changes and exit the Java dialog. Click "OK" to save your changes and exit the Preferences dialog.

As a test you can go to:

http://www.java.com/en/download/installed.jsp

And click the big green "verify installation" button.

As another test go to:

http://www.opera.com/applets/clock/

WATCH closely...on my XO I would see the clock flicker for a second...but then I would get a grey box.  I attribute this to the same sort of problem that I have watching youtube with the default browser.

O.K. hope this all helps, it might not be perfect, but should get you in the right direct.  I tried several different approaches so I am not 100% sure if this is exactly what I did...please post your results if you try to install java.

[Atif]

I seem to get stuck right at the point of downloading JAVA. After creating the directory as you instructed, I get a message back that says.... I don't have "write access to that directory". Sorry for being such a Linux neophyte, but can you help with this?

Tim

I just went back and checked and there DOES seem to be a problem with permissions.  I modified my original directions.  The simplest solution is to save it to the home/olpc directory and move manually.  In my modified directions I give the correct linux commands to do that.

I just redid the installation and it worked, sorry for the mistake!

[cpeart]

wow, you guys are making this stuff too hard..

//from root do:

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

//and its done.

I wget the rpm to my USB stick, rename it to opera.rpm and then I can re-install it with a simple rpm -vi /media/USBSTICKNAME/opera.rpm. Same with flash and the opera-activity bundle which doesn't work at all with the latest joyride builds but *shrugs*.

[topcat]

Hi,
I'm a newbie. I attempted to install Opera. Everything went well until the
./install.sh
It would not install...I continued and do have Opera in my activity bar, but when activated it just goes to a blank page. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I did reinstall and followed the new steps, and I'm happy to report I am running Opera...yipeee!!! It's like a new computer. Now I just need to install java and flash so I can get Webkinz for my daughter and youtube for me
Thanks for all the help!!!

[koaziji]

Before you can use opera, you'll have to read some directions from this and other sites in the xo browser.

Here are a couple of hints to make that easier:

-) You can increase the type size on the standard xo browser just like you do it in firefox: hti control and +. To decrease, it's control and -. BTW, you can also increase/decrease the font size in opera, but it uses the shift rather than control key.

-)Or, copy and paste the text from the browser into a write document. Standard commands work. Highllght the text and hit ctl+c. Go to the write document, place the mouse in it and type ctl+v.