Installing Vivaldi on Ubuntu

[edwardp]

I received an e-mail from the leader of a local Linux user group. He tried to install Vivaldi on his laptop (Ubuntu Unity, 22.10). He indicated that the installation loaded into a window he chose not to approve.

Does anyone know what this particular window may have been about?

I will be demonstrating Vivaldi at a somewhat-local science event next week, with this same Linux group and will try to install it on his laptop while we're there. I am borrowing a laptop from the group to install and demo Vivaldi on and I'm curious as to what that window is.

In Debian, I used:

sudo dpkg -i vivaldi_(current-version).deb

to install it on my desktops and I assume with Ubuntu, the command is the same.

Thank you.

[DoctorG]

@edwardp Correct, after downloading the deb file from https://downloads.vivaldi.com/stable/vivaldi-stable_5.7.2921.65-1_amd64.deb you have to start sudo dpkg -i vivaldi-stable_5.7.2921.65-1_amd64.deb

[RiveDroite]

@edwardp it's been a long time since I've installed it on my Ubuntu machine, but to my knowledge you can just follow the steps here https://help.vivaldi.com/desktop/install-update/install-the-vivaldi-browser/
I didn't need to run the terminal to install it.

[ingolftopf]

@edwardp
I find this strange because Ubuntu is based on Debian.
The installation should be the same.

Did he try the 'Synaptic' programme?

[edwardp]

@ingolftopf I don't know, he didn't say how he tried to install it, but the dpkg -i command is what I would use to install it.

[DoctorG]

@ingolftopf said in Installing Vivaldi on Ubuntu:

Did he try the 'Synaptic' programme?

Ubuntu has Synaptic? Perhaps on a very old Linux.
I can not see such installed on my Ubuntu 22 LTS.

[ingolftopf]

@DoctorG
'Synaptic' is a very good programme, can be installed on all Linux systems, e.g. if you don't want to do this via the console

[DoctorG]

@ingolftopf said in Installing Vivaldi on Ubuntu:

Synaptic' is a very good programme

Yes, but i had in the past (ok, more than 2 yrs ago) trouble to install with it and i removed it.
Linux console and apt or dpkg and apitude is the better tool for me to install software.

[ingolftopf]

@DoctorG
Especially for newcomers, 'Synaptic' is very nice for installing and deleting programmes.
If you are not yet familiar with the console/terminal.

[DoctorG]

@ingolftopf Yes, i am not the one who says: do not use it.

[ingolftopf]

@DoctorG
Otherwise it would be even nicer.

[edwardp]

@DoctorG @ingolftopf Synaptic is included with Debian.

The Lubuntu flavor of Ubuntu (with LXQt desktop) includes the Muon Package Manager, which functions similar to Synaptic. Muon is from KDE.

[edwardp]

@ingolftopf @DoctorG I had to use Synaptic not too long ago to fix a problem. When I installed Debian, I used their LXDE image. Subsequently installed LXQt and discovered that the LXQt meta-package also installed a minimal KDE desktop.

Over time, there were some Qt-related packages that were not updating, because others were not updated and they apparently had nothing to do with LXQt. It reached the point where these 20+ packages were not updating using apt. I ended up using Synaptic to remove those packages, while it kept the necessary Qt packages installed.

No package issues since.

[ingolftopf]

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