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Post by TheScarletPimpernel on Jul 2, 2023 23:47:01 GMT
First of all, much thanks to all whom bring us the excellent distro known as Bodhi Linux!!!! Your efforts are greatly appreciated.
Before Bodhi 7 I was researching how to install Opera on Bodhi (I love its built in VPN) as a way around installig ProtonVPN on Bodhi and therefore I was delighted it was included in the new Web Browser manager.
Unfortunately I cannot install it. The error log indicates that the package opera-stable cannot be located. However I am able to install other browsers such as Brave without issue.
By the way, I love the browser selection- yippee.I have a question on it, the verbiage you can read for each browser (which I love), is that hard coded or will it automatically get updated? For example if Brave added a VPN? I am just curious how this works. And is the WebBrowser Manager selections considered curated software?
FYI I did this in "Live" mode not as an install.
Thanks to all...
TheScarletPimpernel
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Post by ylee on Jul 3, 2023 10:23:22 GMT
I am unsure why Opera would not install when you tested it. Perhaps its website or repo was down temporarily. I just tested it and it installed fine. The text in the Web Browser Manager application is 'hard-coded' not scrapped from the internet. Keep it simple is best.  As to the selections in WBM, it is curated in the sense that we tried to pick popular browsers or browsers that are known to perform well. Chrome is popular, Slimjet maybe not popular but extremely fast and low resource compared to most of the others. "By the way, I love the browser selection- yippee" Thanks  It was my idea to add this app and then we worked hard to modernize and customize the code for Bodhi. Many thanks to ryenigma for his contributions to this project. |
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Post by TheScarletPimpernel on Jul 4, 2023 0:27:48 GMT
Ylee,
You wrote:
Perhaps its website or repo was down
My reply:
Thank you for the response. As you suspected the issue resolved itself. I had no idea the repositories ever went down, I naively assumed everything was mirrored, in the cloud, or otherwise high availability and that the issue was in the path to the repository.
I noted the error message indicated Opera-stable and assumed this was a copy of a version that was isolated in its own environment and maintained separately from mainstream Opera. Interesting it sounds like the Web Browser Manager is pulling live from the entities that maintain the browsers. That totally changes what I assumed a repository was: a large collection of apps stored in a single location, where as, apparently, it is disparate. Fascinating. Now, I need to research how Linux repositories/package management works.
I appreciate your responses as I am less than 90 days into my Linux journey,and while reading docs, my naivete clearly shows. Once again, thank you for all the effort you extended to my queries and Bodhi Linux in general.
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Post by ylee on Jul 4, 2023 12:02:47 GMT
Not all repos have mirrors and even the ones that do such as Ubuntu's when a mirror goes down you have to configure apt to use another mirror. A repo offline temporarily confuses many Users so you are not alone in that. When in doubt about any website you can always try to ping it. There are also websites that will check to see if a website is online. A repo is nothing more than another website btw.
Glad you got it to work btw. Opera is a nice browser, I went thru a stage of using it that last a few years. I use Chrome and Firefox now primarily.
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Post by oscarb75 on Jul 6, 2023 14:04:16 GMT
[...]It was my idea to add this app and then we worked hard to modernize and customize the code for Bodhi. Many thanks to ryenigma for his contributions to this project. It could be an idea, for the future, to recycle the code in order to provide a software center like Ubuntu, instead of a link to a web page. |
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Post by ylee on Jul 6, 2023 19:38:47 GMT
[...]It was my idea to add this app and then we worked hard to modernize and customize the code for Bodhi. Many thanks to ryenigma for his contributions to this project. It could be an idea, for the future, to recycle the code in order to provide a software center like Ubuntu, instead of a link to a web page. You do realize we only have two full time developers. I seriously can not handle any more projects other than what I currently maintain or have planned for the future. A software center is a great idea but some one else is going to have to create it and maintain it. We simply can not find competent programmers much less programmers that are going to be here for the long haul. |
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It was my idea to add this app and then we worked hard to modernize and customize 