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Opera Won't Run on Wheezy [SOLVED]

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  Opera Won't Run on Wheezy [SOLVED] Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2016-05-13 02:40 +0200
    Re: Opera Won't Run on Wheezy [SOLVED] Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-05-13 08:40 +0200
      Re: Opera Won't Run on Wheezy [SOLVED] Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2016-05-13 10:50 +0200
        Re: Opera Won't Run on Wheezy [SOLVED] Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-05-13 14:40 +0200
      Re: Opera Won't Run on Wheezy [SOLVED] Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2016-05-13 21:50 +0200

#167793 — Opera Won't Run on Wheezy [SOLVED]

A couple weeks ago, downloaded deb file for Opera from Opera web site,
and installed.  Ran fine.  Now it won't.  At first, thought is was
my upgrading to openjdk7-jre and icedtea-7-plugin, but found out
one of Chrome's files was the culprit.  Opera uses pepperflash
and the Chrome PDF plugins, one of which (or both) now requires version
2.14 of libc6. Wheezy has 2.13, latest version.  And installing 2.14
was not a safe option: too much a risk of screwing up the system. So,
Opera as a replacement for Chrome is out.

FWIW, as a check, installed Opera on Jessie LXDE desktop (stock
install) that I installed in a VM on this Wheezy system months ago.
Works fine.

Guess I'm stuck with the unsupported Chrome.  No biggie.

B

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#167796

On Friday 13 May 2016 01:39:23 Patrick Bartek wrote:
> Guess I'm stuck with the unsupported Chrome.  No biggie.

Because Chrome is unsupported for Wheezy and 32 bit, pepper flash is 
unsupported for Wheezy and 32 bit.  It makes no difference which of the 
browsers that you use that uses pepper flash, it will still be unsupported.

Lisi

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#167802

On 2016-05-13, Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Friday 13 May 2016 01:39:23 Patrick Bartek wrote:
>> Guess I'm stuck with the unsupported Chrome.  No biggie.
>
> Because Chrome is unsupported for Wheezy and 32 bit, pepper flash is 
> unsupported for Wheezy and 32 bit.  It makes no difference which of the 
> browsers that you use that uses pepper flash, it will still be unsupported.

Chrome no longer receives updates in Wheezy period (whether 32 or 64 bit
flavor).

When did he say he was using a 32 bit machine btw?

> Lisi
>
>


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#167812

On Friday 13 May 2016 09:44:43 Curt wrote:
> On 2016-05-13, Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Friday 13 May 2016 01:39:23 Patrick Bartek wrote:
> >> Guess I'm stuck with the unsupported Chrome.  No biggie.
> >
> > Because Chrome is unsupported for Wheezy and 32 bit, pepper flash is
> > unsupported for Wheezy and 32 bit.  It makes no difference which of the
> > browsers that you use that uses pepper flash, it will still be
> > unsupported.
>
> Chrome no longer receives updates in Wheezy period (whether 32 or 64 bit
> flavor).
>
> When did he say he was using a 32 bit machine btw?

He didn't and I didn't.  The statement, and I made it a general one, applies 
to two things:  Wheezy and 32 bit.  Both.  Separately.  (And together, of 
course.)  What has what the OP is using got to do with it?  It applies to a 
lot of us, and I had been trying to do as you suggested and had clarified the 
above for myself, so it seemed worth passing on.  

And my post was about pepper flash in other browsers, not Chrome.  Pepper 
flash is unsupported in Wheezy and 32 bit, in any or all browsers, because 
Chrome is unsupported in Wheezy and 32 bit.  Note: Wheezy AND 32 bit.  Not 
Wheezy 32 bit.

Lisi

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#167839

On Fri, 13 May 2016, Lisi Reisz wrote:

> On Friday 13 May 2016 01:39:23 Patrick Bartek wrote:
> > Guess I'm stuck with the unsupported Chrome.  No biggie.
> 
> Because Chrome is unsupported for Wheezy and 32 bit, pepper flash is 
> unsupported for Wheezy and 32 bit.  It makes no difference which of
> the browsers that you use that uses pepper flash, it will still be
> unsupported.
> 
> Lisi

That's what I at first thought, but that can't be it.  The installed
versions of all that's Chrome on my system hasn't changed since support
stopped a month ago, either before or after installing Opera twice. I
had even removed the Chrome repo, too. It looks like if you already have Chrome
installed, unsupported or not, Opera doesn't overwrite those files with
up-to-date ones. It just uses what's already there. So, I still have
old, now unsupported versions of the 4 standard plugins/extensions that
come default with Chrome and, thus, Opera.

The curiosity is that last week when I first installed Opera, and
immediately updated/upgraded, it ran fine.  No problems.  A week later,
it wouldn't.  And as far as I can determined, it hadn't been
upgraded in that week. I also checked dependencies, and Wheezy
generously met them. But something had to have changed.  I just can't
find out what.

Anyway, this is all academic. I won't be using Opera on Wheezy.  It's
been too much a bother.  However, I wonder if other LTS distros have
had this problem?

B

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