How To Install Opera Browser on CentOS 7 / RHEL 7 & Fedora 28/27

Opera is a freeware web browser developed by Opera Software. Opera runs on a variety of personal computer operating systems, including Microsoft Windows, macOS, and Linux.

Editions of Opera are available for Android, and iOS operating systems, as well as Java ME-enabled devices.

Here is the guide on how to install Opera browser on CentOS 7 / RHEL 7 & Fedora 28 / 27.

Install Opera Browser on CentOS 7 / RHEL 7 & Fedora 28/27

Open a terminal and switch to root user.

sudo su -

Import the public GPG key of the Opera browser.

rpm --import https://rpm.opera.com/rpmrepo.key

Add Opera browser repository to the system.

tee /etc/yum.repos.d/opera.repo <<REPO
[opera]
name=Opera packages
type=rpm-md
baseurl=https://rpm.opera.com/rpm
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://rpm.opera.com/rpmrepo.key
enabled=1
REPO

Install the Opera browser using the YUM command.

### CentOS 7 / RHEL 7 ### yum -y install opera-stable ### Fedora 28/27 ### dnf -y install opera-stable

Output:

Fedora 28 - x86_64 - Updates 1.1 MB/s | 22 MB 00:19
Fedora 28 - x86_64 1.1 MB/s | 60 MB 00:53
Opera packages 10 kB/s | 11 kB 00:01
Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:00 ago on Friday 17 August 2018 07:56:55 AM IST.
Dependencies resolved.
========================================================================================================== Package Arch Version Repository Size
==========================================================================================================
Installing: opera-stable x86_64 55.0.2994.37-0 opera 52 M
Installing dependencies: libXScrnSaver x86_64 1.2.2-14.fc28 fedora 29 k Transaction Summary
==========================================================================================================
Install 2 Packages Total download size: 52 M
Installed size: 181 M
Downloading Packages:
(1/2): libXScrnSaver-1.2.2-14.fc28.x86_64.rpm 33 kB/s | 29 kB 00:00
(2/2): opera_stable-55.0.2994.37-linux-release-x64-signed.rpm 1.8 MB/s | 52 MB 00:28
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total 1.7 MB/s | 52 MB 00:30
Running transaction check
Transaction check succeeded.
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded.
Running transaction Preparing : 1/1 Installing : libXScrnSaver-1.2.2-14.fc28.x86_64 1/2 Running scriptlet: libXScrnSaver-1.2.2-14.fc28.x86_64 1/2 Installing : opera-stable-55.0.2994.37-0.x86_64 2/2 Running scriptlet: opera-stable-55.0.2994.37-0.x86_64 2/2
Redirecting to /bin/systemctl start atd.service Verifying : opera-stable-55.0.2994.37-0.x86_64 1/2 Verifying : libXScrnSaver-1.2.2-14.fc28.x86_64 2/2 Installed: opera-stable.x86_64 55.0.2994.37-0 libXScrnSaver.x86_64 1.2.2-14.fc28 Complete!

Want to try Opera beta, run:

### CentOS 7 / RHEL 7 ### yum -y install opera-beta ### Fedora 28/27 ### dnf -y install opera-beta

Run the below command to add Opera logo to the Opera browser launcher icon.

sed -i 's/Icon=/Icon=/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/opera.png/g' /usr/share/applications/opera.desktop

Access Opera Browser

Opera browser cannot be started as the root user. So, you would need to start the Opera browser as a regular user.

CentOS 7 / RHEL 7: Application >> Internet >> Opera.

Fedora 28/27: Activities >> Search for Opera.

OR

$ opera

Beta:

$ opera-beta

Opera browser running on CentOS 7 / RHEL 7:

Opera browser running on Fedora 28/27:

That’s All. You have successfully installed Opera browser on CentOS 7 / RHEL 7 & Fedora 28 / 27.