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Grogster Admin Group  Joined: 31/12/2012 Location: New ZealandPosts: 9531 |
Hello all.  I'm just playing around tonight, so I could be doing something wrong. PROBABLY am doing something wrong.  Used the PI5 to go to the Opera browser website, and download the deb for Linux. Right-click on the file, set the EXECUTE permissions to "Only Owner", click OK.  Now double-click the deb file, get asked if I want to install it, I say yes/OK, then get the following error message:  The PI5 is trying to tell me to look in the "Detailed report", which is fine, but as I am something still of a Linux novice, can someone point me to where I can FIND that report, and then maybe find out what the issue was. Cheers!  Smoke makes things work. When the smoke gets out, it stops! |
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Mixtel90 Guru  Joined: 05/10/2019 Location: United KingdomPosts: 7642 |
When you get this sort of thing there is a method that can help. Open up a terminal window (yes, it's command line time!), navigate to the location of the file you are trying to install and run the installer from the command line (you may need to use sudo to get permission to install it). You will usually get a whole load of stuff scrolling up, but it will stop where the error is - or not long after as it tidies up. Whether you understand the error message is something else, but at least it's a start. :) Mick Zilog Inside! nascom.info for Nascom & Gemini Preliminary MMBasic docs & my PCB designs |
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| Grogster Admin Group Joined: 31/12/2012 Location: New ZealandPosts: 9531 |
Awesome, thanks, I will try that. Quite impressed with Raspbian. I've tried LOTS of Linux distro's, but this seems really painless to get going, compared to other PC-based distro's. I guess that, similar to MAC, the hardware is a KNOWN, and so they can write for known hardware, other then generic. Smoke makes things work. When the smoke gets out, it stops! |
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| Mixtel90 Guru Joined: 05/10/2019 Location: United KingdomPosts: 7642 |
Raspian was pretty good last time I was messing with a Pi. Very solid. I didn't find the urge to try anything else. Mind you, it was a 3B so there weren't many other good options. I've not had a better Pi since then. Mick Zilog Inside! nascom.info for Nascom & Gemini Preliminary MMBasic docs & my PCB designs |
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| dddns Guru Joined: 20/09/2024 Location: GermanyPosts: 410 |
Arm is not amd64!! Not sure of RP5 processor type but the package needs to fit to the architecture |
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stanleyella Guru Joined: 25/06/2022 Location: United KingdomPosts: 2451 |
I use win Opera but it's not available for pi. |
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| dddns Guru Joined: 20/09/2024 Location: GermanyPosts: 410 |
There is a windows version for the PI. And there is a opera version for windows on arm. |
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| dddns Guru Joined: 20/09/2024 Location: GermanyPosts: 410 |
@Grogster Many thanks for your questions which made me research on Pi5. Reading all this makes me never buy a RPI |
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| stanleyella Guru Joined: 25/06/2022 Location: United KingdomPosts: 2451 |
I wish I never bought a rpi 400...or a rpi 3,2,1 get a mini ex office pc |
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| stanleyella Guru Joined: 25/06/2022 Location: United KingdomPosts: 2451 |
rant rpi is useless for video. same price i5 8gb win smooth |
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| Grogster Admin Group Joined: 31/12/2012 Location: New ZealandPosts: 9531 |
Good point. That was a bit of a schoolboy mistake by me there....  I don't NEED to have Opera, I was just playing around with trying to install it, but I will drop that idea now.  Smoke makes things work. When the smoke gets out, it stops! |
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phil99 Guru Joined: 11/02/2018 Location: AustraliaPosts: 2473 |
Perhaps Brave is another option. |
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| Mixtel90 Guru Joined: 05/10/2019 Location: United KingdomPosts: 7642 |
Either use what's supplied by default or install something from the repo. Life can be so much easier. :) I still have a soft spot for Firefox. Mick Zilog Inside! nascom.info for Nascom & Gemini Preliminary MMBasic docs & my PCB designs |
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| dddns Guru Joined: 20/09/2024 Location: GermanyPosts: 410 |
Chromium would be my suggestion @Grogster |
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| Mixtel90 Guru Joined: 05/10/2019 Location: United KingdomPosts: 7642 |
I like Chromium (not Google Chrome) too. Mick Zilog Inside! nascom.info for Nascom & Gemini Preliminary MMBasic docs & my PCB designs |
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| dddns Guru Joined: 20/09/2024 Location: GermanyPosts: 410 |
I'm using firefox but some modern browser-based applications are best compatible with chromium which is based on chrome |
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| Mixtel90 Guru Joined: 05/10/2019 Location: United KingdomPosts: 7642 |
I currently have Brave on here, with an option for Vivaldi. I rarely need to use anything else. My MX Linux machine is currently set up with Firefox because it happened to be there. :) Generally, if a site or application is browser-fussy I just go somewhere else and may never look again. If they can't be bothered to standardise I'm not interested, it's their loss. I'm certainly not going to deliberately install a spyware and advertising-riddled browser for anyone. :) Mick Zilog Inside! nascom.info for Nascom & Gemini Preliminary MMBasic docs & my PCB designs |
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| dddns Guru Joined: 20/09/2024 Location: GermanyPosts: 410 |
these tendencies are visible since early 2000's so I banned win for private use in 04 and quit my job in 10 |
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| stanleyella Guru Joined: 25/06/2022 Location: United KingdomPosts: 2451 |
raspian used to use duck duck go. I think chromium uses it to search |
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| Mixtel90 Guru Joined: 05/10/2019 Location: United KingdomPosts: 7642 |
I like Startpage search engine. Mick Zilog Inside! nascom.info for Nascom & Gemini Preliminary MMBasic docs & my PCB designs |
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