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Unfortunately puppy 2.16 comes with flash9 which doesn't work in opera (it does on some linux distros).
Good news is that flash7 does work (most sensible sites avoid flash, esp version 9 which is known to be unstable /rant).
youtube and myspace work fine with flash7. Problem is when installed, opera will pick up and use the mozilla plugins by default (ie flash9)
Here is a thread on the subject - it contains a downloadable .pup for getting opera to use flash7 (which the .pup places locally into opera's plugins directory)
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=18570∞
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?mode=attach&id=4174∞

Opera 9.10 is now a .pet (click on install / or setup / package manager from the menu)
Download Opera 9.10∞
Install the dot-pup by clicking on it. It will install to "Menu" -> "Dotpups".
This version of Opera only has the large icon, and not the small one that belongs in the menu.

Mirror
http://www.eggdisk.com/files/176188_owpqn/opera-9.10.pup∞

Please be aware that for this dotpup to work, you must have QT installed from the dotPET downloader in Puppy.
QT from Menu / Setup / Puppy Package manager / PetGet / run PetGet / qt-3.66

To install Opera 9.02 just download http://dotpups.de/dotpups/Internet/opera-9.02.pup∞, extract, run install.sh found in the folder you just extracted, whan asked, type y, and voila! Opera installed! (this includes QT - so the below instructions are not required)

Note: the .pup only has the small icon, "icon.xpm" and not the larger "opera.xpm" which was included in earlier versions. Since I like using the larger one I've posted it here for you to download:
http://apocalypse.org/pub/u/hugh/puppylinux/opera.xpm∞
To change the icon right-click on the file in rox and select "Change Icon" (makes sense, huh?) then drag the icon into the box in the window that pops up.

If you wish to drag Opera to the desktop, call it from the command line, etc. you may want to use the actual program: /usr/local/opera-9.02/bin/opera rather than the script /usr/local/opera-9.02/opera. The script seems to work fine, but only if called from the directory it resides in. It errors with :

I'm sure there is a nice propper solution that I don't know, and the forum is down. Apparently it is looking for bin/opera wherever it is called from, as in /root/bin/opera if called from /root

(See below for installing to earlier Puppy versions)
Mean Puppy and Grafpup.com are Opera based versions of Puppy

Browser is available as a pupget (click on the desktop package icon or
menu / setup / package manager)
the select updates from browser menu

Opera Homepage∞
Using Opera with Puppy

Opera 9 is currently available as a DotPup:
Download: http://dotpups.de/dotpups/Internet/opera-9.02.pup∞ (6.7 MB)
If clicking on the link does not prompt you to save the file try right-clicking on the link and choosing save from the menu ("Save location as...", "Save link target as...", etc. Wording differs between browser types. Couldn't tell you what IE says anymore, but that's the whole point, isn't it?)

About these instructions:
These instructions are written with the novice in mind. If you are familiar with linux in general or Puppy you will probably find them written at too basic a level, but probably not need them in the first place. If you find them confusing in any way please let me know so I can clarify*. The first time you start Opera after the installer runs it will ask you to download a library, qt-3.3.4, unless it was previously installed. This is expected, and these instructions cover installing Opera and qt-3.3.4.

Requires 6.6 MB space on HD to install, though the cashe will add as much as you determine. If concerned about size see note in Tips section below.

*Opera 9 install section originally by FitzHugh. Others have probably turned my gibberish into comprehensible English by the time you read this, but if you find anything confusing let me know and I'll clean it up.

NOTE: If you have created additional users make sure you are logged in as root. Unless you have created users you will be root, as this is the standard user in Puppy.

1) Open Menu

2) Select Rox

This will open your home directory

3) Find the directory that contains the downloaded Opera9.pup

4) Click on Opera9.pup, which will start the DotPup installer. If the download was unsuccessful you will get the following error:

Try downloading it again. If you have persistant problems, first make sure you are working with the most recent copy you downloaded, and then consider posting a question on the forum. However, chances are it downloaded fine, in which case you will see:

5) Click "Unzip the Pup File" (If you wish to skip this part in the future when the file is ok, click Always instead.)

Now the file is unzipped and the Installer is ready to begin.

6) Click "Run the Installer" or choose "Always" to run the installer now and automatically run it without asking next time.

After a few minutes in which nothing appears to be happening (don't worry, it is) you will see a window similar to this:

This tells you that Opera is installed and added to the menus of the window managers listed including the default, JWM (Joe's Window Manager). You must restart before you will see it in the menu. However, we're not finished yet!

7) Click "OK"

8) The directory into which it installed will be open.

Now set the icon.
Right click on the file Opera that currently looks like a gear and choose File Opera > Set Icon.

9) This will open another window. Click and drag the Opera icon (large red "O") from the directory and onto the new window, dropping it into the box labeled "Drop an icon file here."

Click "OK"

10) We are now going to add Opera to the desktop so you may start it by clicking the Opera icon. Click and drag Opera from inside the directory, dropping it on the desktop (don't grab the icon file by mistake).

11) If you would like to delete the downloaded .pup file navigate back to the folder that holds it. You may jump strait to your home directory (/root when logged in as root, the default) by clicking the small square home shaped icon in the upper left corner of any Rox-Filer window.

Right-click on Opera9.pup and select File Opera9.pup > Delete

You will get a popup asking you to confirm the delete; click "Yes". If you are deleting many files at some point you may wish to answer "Quiet" since that prevents it from asking for a confirmation before deleting each file.

However, there is one library not included that must be downloaded: qt-3.3.4, unless you have already installed it previously or it was included in a package you installed. To find out, simply click the Opera icon on the desktop. If you get the licensing agreement, jump ahead in these instructions. If you get this message:

Click "okay" and follow the instructions below, skipping to #3:

1) Click Menu -> Setup -> Puppy Package Manager.

2) Click the button next to "Click button to run the PupGet package manager:" at the bottom right of the screen

3) When the PupGet Package Manager opens click the large button in the upper right corner that starts the standard PupGet package manager. (Other options are for installing alien packages and for checking dependencies).

4) You will see another small red popup window asking you to wait.

Please wait while it figures out what PupGet packages are already installed. This can take a few minutes (~two minutes on 1GHz PIII).

5) When finished it will open the main PupGet package manager window.

Note the two panels inside it. On the left are the PupGet packages that are available but not installed. On the right are displayed any PupGet packages (or alien packages) installed through the PupGet package manager. It does not show the packages that are preinstalled in Puppy Linux when first downloaded. Moving a package from the left panel to the right panel will cause it to be installed. Likewise, moving a file from the right to the left will cause it to be uninstalled. You may move more than one package in each direction before clicking on OK, which will then perform actions based on which files are in each panel. Right now we are only concerned with adding a single package, qt-3.3.4.

6) Scroll down in the left panel until you can highlight qt-3.3.4.

7) With qt-3.3.4 selected in the left panel click the button labelled > Add .

8) Click OK

The following window will appear:

This gives you a three choices for where to look for the package(s) you told it to install in the previous window: ibiblio.org, nluug,nl or local. The first two are servers on the internet, in North America and Europe, while the third, local, tells it you want to browse your local machine for a copy.

9) Click the button for the server closest to you. A popup window will appear, asking you to wait while it is processing:

If after some time it appears to really be stuck, close this window and start over from step 1 above (Installing qt-3.3.4, not Installing Opera 9!)
Another window will then appear on top of the one above, displaying information about the program's connection to the server you chose, as well as showing progress once the download begins:

This window will close once the download is complete, leaving the previous window displaying until the installation is complete.

10) When you see this green window the installation is finished.

Click okay to close this window. ]

Finished!
Opera should then start on its own (finishing what begun when you clicked on it and found it needed qt-3.3.4)

You will see the ubiquitous legalese:

And then, as a reward for all your efforts, a welcome page with an odd hippy chick in a hat...

And another, even odder girl...

... "Why is she here?"
... "Why is her picture taped to Hat Girl's leg?"
... "What's with those hands?"
... "Sign Language? How about some subtitles."

More pictures of this odd pair can be found on http://opera.com/products/desktop/?platform=linux∞

Update on hatgirl: Hatgirl and the one taped to her leg are one and the same! They are named Monica. Go figure.
http://www.opera.com/users/monica/∞
If I were her I'd pick a different picture of herself to tape to her leg. This one looks like she's trying to scream "I just swallowed something in my milk and it was moving!" in sign-language...

But, hey, there's just no telling what those wacky Norwegians will do when left on their own.

Though they may well have been edited many times by the time you read this, the instructions for installing Opera 9 were added by Fitzhugh. Please contact me if you have any questions or suggestions.

Preconfigured Searches

One of the features I use all the time is the search shortcuts. If I wanted to drag a mouse all over the place I would stick with windows (a lie, I'd still use linux, but you get the point). I like using the keyboard, not the rodent.
To jump to the URL field type (as in most browsers):
Ctrl l
(lowercase L, not number one)
Now that your cursor is in the URL field just type the keyword (what opera calls aliases or shortcuts for searches): g for google, w for download.com (until you get fed up with that windows site and change it to wikipedia like any modern primate with a properly wrinkled cortex), f for finding stuff in the page, e for ebay, etc. You can add your own or change these (did I mention w for wikipedia?); see below. To actually use this, just type the keyword and the search term:
g penguins
will return a google search for "penguins". Go to Tools -> Preferences -> Search to see what is already configured or to add, edit or delete them.

Roll Your Own Searches

Try right-clicking on any search field and choose "Create Search". Give it a name you will remember, and a short keyword you will use to trigger the search, and click "OK". MUCH faster than flinging the rodent around the pad, and easy to remember too since you pick your own keywords (shortcuts).
For example:
Click [http://www.penguin-soft.com/penguin/manpages.jsp∞ here] or [http://man-wiki.net/∞ here] to open a page that allows you to search a large collection of online man pages (man pages are manuals for commands, each man page covers one command). Right click on the field and "Create Search", give it keyword "man" (without quotes), and click "OK". Now enter:
Ctrl L
man rm
to get instructions for using the command rm.
This works for almost all search pages. Google is already configured as "g", so just typing
g penguins
in the URL field returns a google search on penguins.

If you are concerned about resources and trying to smoosh Puppy into a tiny little space, perhaps 20 Megs is more than you want to surrender to Opera. This is the default amount of disk space used to cache images and webpages in order to quickly load them in the future. The default for memory usage, possibly even more important to many, is "automatic". I do not know how it decides how much to use, so I can't tell you whether to adjust it, just how to do so:
Both are controlled under File -> Preferences -> Advanced -> History by a simple pulldown (see picture below). Not much else to say.

Opera appears to slow down after being used for some time. It takes much longer to load initially, but I do not know if rendering or browsing in general is slower. Clearing the cache seems to make it return to the original quick startup speed. The default is 20MB, which takes a significant time to clear. That is 20 MB of aorund 1500 small files. I'm testing this theory by increasing my cache to 100MB to see if it really crawls, then speeds up when cleared. If you find it slowing down try Tools-> Preferences -> Advanced -> History -> Clear Now (and/or Empty on Exit, or selecting a lower cache size).

"Yesterday I succesfully installed Opera after following the link posted by Artie (thx) and completing the step-by-step setup. It was really simple. I had experimented with Ubuntu Breezy but had difficulties with getting Opera to work properly and, even though Ubuntu advocates stress that the distro is a piece of cake for beginners, I can testify that it comes nowhere near Puppy regarding the learning curve. Puppy is amazing, thanks for this neat distro!
Thanks for all of your posts, it really helped a lot!" Peter

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