[aewarnick]

I downloaded both Opera types for my linux distribution (Linspire):
.tar.gz
.deb

I can't figure out how to install either of them. I had the most luck with .tar.gz. I heard I need to put it in the PATH dir to install it. Here is what I tried:

sh /Opera/install.sh
sh /root/install.sh
sh /bin/Opera/install.sh
sh /usr/Opera/install.sh

with every one, of course I moved the Opera folder to the dir shown. With each try, the terminal window runs the install.sh but always gives errors about finding the other dirs inside the script and the terminal window stops.

What am I doing wrong?
Why does this have to be so difficult??

[aewarnick]

How can do I get the .deb to install?

I figured the .tar.gz out. In the right click menu I could open the terminal window at the Opera dir and that did the trick.

[CouchMaster]

You might try

tar -xzvf opera*.gz
cd opera-installer
./opera-installer

It works for me with firefox.

[aewarnick]

I already figured out the tar.gz file. It is the .deb that I don't know what to do with.

[tsunam]

what Distro are you using?

[aewarnick]

Check my first post: Linspire

[CouchMaster]

I've never used Linspire but it probably has an installer called something like 'linaptic' somewhere in the system tools/programs - which you can use to find and install programs, but if it's DEB based then you can also use apt-get,

apt-get update
apt-get install opera
apt-cache search opera (use this to find opera and put an icon on the desktop)

.............

[prunejuice]

I guess you could also get Opera's rpm and do the Linspire rpm conversion as described
in this thread.

There was a similar rpm conversion tool I used once or twice for Slack called
tgz2rpm...or something.