This probably isn’t even worth a post here at Browsersphere, simply because it’s so easy, but I installed Opera 9.5 Beta 2 on Ubuntu tonight and figured I’d share how I did it.  Unlike installing most packages on Ubuntu, it wasn’t as simple as using something like sudo apt-get install opera, but it was still straightforward.

First, I downloaded Opera 9.5 Beta 2 directly from the Opera website.  That launched the Debian package manager, which informed me that two dependencies were required and allowed me to install the software with one button click.  Once the install was finished, I optimistically glanced at my Applications, Internet menu to see if a shortcut to Opera had been added automatically, but it had not.  I started looking around online to see what the easiest way to add it was, but then noticed in the menu manager that the Opera icon was already showing up.  Fearing that it had already been added but that the Ubuntu menus simply hadn’t been refreshed, I quickly logged out and back in, and voila, there was the shortcut to Opera, already available in the Applications, Internet menu.

So there you have it.  Installing Opera 9.5 Beta 2 on Ubuntu 8.04 is easy as pie.  If you’ve used the browser on Windows like I have, it’s very familiar on Linux.

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