Ever since the Opera team started working on the new Opera 10.50 / 10.51, there were no .deb or .rpm packages but this finally changed and you can now install Opera 10.50/10.51 in Debian (and derivates like Ubuntu, etc.), Fedora, openSUSE and so on using .deb and .rpm packages.
Note: it is recommended you back up your your profile ('~/.opera') first to allow you to downgrade should you need to, because once installed Opera will use the default profile (rather than a testing profile).
The new build basically doesn't bring anything new other than native packages for the above mentioned Linux distributions.
Known issues:
Known issues:
- Packaging: No desktop integration for users of old Desktop Environments on non deb/rpm distros
- Packaging: Extra unneeded GTK libraries get installed on some distros
- Packaging: Removal of 'prefix'/'DESTDIR' install script options
- Font problems
- Language input issues
- No KDE integration (yet)
- Problem with address field drop down position under non compositing Window Managers
- Black drop down menus for some KDE3 users
- Black border around Ctrl+Tab dialog when running under compositing Window Managers
- Some command line options don't work
Remember: Opera 10.51 for Linux is still alpha!
Download Opera 10.51 build 62.52 .deb, .rpm and .tar.gz.
Update: get the latest version from HERE (10.52 alpha).
