Thursday, September 03, 2009

Install new Opera 10 on Ubuntu

Opera 10 was released on 1st September and I tried to upgrade since the Opera deb repository was already available on my software sources file. Then I noticed that I had not added the Opera GPG Key. I added the key:
$ wget -O - http://deb.opera.com/archive.key | sudo apt-key add -

and I could upgrade to the new version.



If you don't have Opera repository in software sources add it:
deb http://deb.opera.com/opera/ stable non-free
I have installed on Ubuntu Jaunty but the repo should work on any version of Ubuntu.

Personally I am dissatisfied with Opera since it does not render Devanagari fonts properly e.g. see how it renders this word स्पष्ट The correct rendering is  

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