How To Install Opera Web Browser on CentOS 7

Opera is a fast, secure and easy-to-use internet browser which works well on most of the Linux distributions. It’s now designed with an integrated ad blocker, battery saver and free VPN, so it saves time and resources for its own users. Also, Opera browser is stuffed with several other innovative features such as speed dialup, pop-up blocking, personal browsing and tabbed browsing.

This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo’ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you through the step by step install Opera Web Browser on CentOS 7 server.
Install Opera Web Browser on CentOS 7

Step 1. First let’s start by ensuring your system is up-to-date.

yum clean all
yum -y update

Step 2. Installing Opera Web Browser on CentOS 7.

First, download latest opera version for your Linux distribution go to Opera download page:

wget http://get.geo.opera.com/ftp/pub/opera/desktop/53.0.2907.68/linux/opera-stable_53.0.2907.68_amd64.rpm

After downloading Opera rpm packages, lets install it using rpm command line utility:

rpm -ivh opera-stable_53.0.2907.68_amd64.rpm

Step 3. Accessing Opera Web Browser.

Once the Opera installation is complete, use following command to open browser from GUI interface or use GUI menu to start it.

opera

Congratulation’s! You have successfully installed Opera Browser. Thanks for using this tutorial for installing Opera Web Browser on CentOS 7 systems. For additional help or useful information, we recommend you to check the official Opera web site.

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