Solved installation on linux

shalom938

I had vivaldi for long time with debian testing repositories, suddenly some days ago there was some error with the signature file. so i removed vivaldi and went to install the deb package as you suggest.
your site says here :https://help.vivaldi.com/desktop/install-update/manual-setup-vivaldi-linux-repositories/
that there is no need to manually add repositories:

so i did it and when i opened the package with software install i saw this:

and really after installation no repositories where added to apt.

so how to add the repositories to apt so i can update? using debian testing

edwardp

@shalom938 I am running Debian unstable (sid) here and had an issue trying to update recently.

I uninstalled the packages, removed one of the files in /etc/apt/sources.list.d that included 'archive' in the name. Then downloaded and installed the .deb package again. No issues since.

See https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/82797/minor-update-4-for-vivaldi-desktop-browser-5-6/18

DoctorG

@shalom938 Install the current one with this commands:

wget -c https://downloads.vivaldi.com/stable/vivaldi-stable_5.6.2867.58-1_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i vivaldi-stable_5.6.2867.58-1_amd64.deb

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ModEdit: Typo

shalom938

@DoctorG I did install vivaldi-stable_5.6.2867.58-1_amd64.deb, still doesn't configure apt repository.

shalom@xps-debian:~/tmp$ ls /etc/apt/sources.list.d/
adoptopenjdk.list           google-chrome.list   mono-official-stable.list         oracle-virtualbox.list
brave-browser-release.list  microsoft-prod.list  mono-official-stable.list-LATEST  vscode.list
docker.list                 mono-dotnet-howto    mono-official-stable.list-MONO_5  zulu-openjdk.list

DoctorG

@shalom938 Let me check on my Debian 12 Testing.

Works for me on Debian 12 bookworm/sid.

test@tessie:~$ ls -al /etc/apt/sources.list.d/
insgesamt 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 25. Jan 10:15 .
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 16. Nov 13:40 ..
test@tessie:~$ sudo dpkg -i vivaldi-stable_5.6.2867.58-1_amd64.deb 
Vormals nicht ausgewähltes Paket vivaldi-stable wird gewählt.
(Lese Datenbank ... 210527 Dateien und Verzeichnisse sind derzeit installiert.)
Vorbereitung zum Entpacken von vivaldi-stable_5.6.2867.58-1_amd64.deb ...
Entpacken von vivaldi-stable (5.6.2867.58-1) ...
vivaldi-stable (5.6.2867.58-1) wird eingerichtet ...
update-alternatives: /usr/bin/vivaldi-stable wird verwendet, um /usr/bin/x-www-browser (x-www-browser) im automatischen Modus bereitzustellen
update-alternatives: /usr/bin/vivaldi-stable wird verwendet, um /usr/bin/gnome-www-browser (gnome-www-browser) im automatischen Modus bereitzustellen
update-alternatives: /usr/bin/vivaldi-stable wird verwendet, um /usr/bin/vivaldi (vivaldi) im automatischen Modus bereitzustellen
Trigger für mailcap (3.70+nmu1) werden verarbeitet ...
test@tessie:~$ ls -al /etc/apt/sources.list.d/
insgesamt 12
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 25. Jan 10:15 .
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 16. Nov 13:40 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  187 25. Jan 10:15 vivaldi.list
test@tessie:~$

shalom938

@DoctorG thanks, only after i apt purge the old installation and reinstalled now i have the repo in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vivaldi.list

josephj11

@shalom938 Glad that worked. For anyone seeing this later: Remember that purging will most likely delete all your preferences, cookies, passwords,... So take appropriate steps to save things before doing so.

mib2berlin

@shalom938 @josephj11
Hi, a fix is on the way, check the next change logs for VB-94717.

Cheers, mib