Hi, Recently, I downloaded Manjaro on two of my computers. I was able to download Opera using sudo pacman -Syu opera, but on my other computer, I’m running the same command, but I’m getting a target not found: opera error. I found an alternative, which is using the Snap store. However, I’m running …

reason to remove otherwise good software has something to do with licenses or propitiery parts. Just a speculation The package maintainer was no longer using and was no longer interested in packaging opera

It’s happening because it’s not in the Manjaro repository, but I do see it in AUR So you need to use an AUR helper to install it, or continue using the Snap or install the Flatpak version.

Welcome to the forum! :vulcan_salute: opera (and several of its extensions) can be installed from the AUR. :point_down: pamac build opera … or… :point_down: yay -Syu opera Make sure your system is fully up to date before you install it, and do not use sudo with either of these two commands — th…

[image] Teo: I did not do a research why, but usually the reason to remove otherwise good software has something to do with licenses or propitiery parts. [image] [Testing Update] 2024-02-15 - Phosh, KDE Frameworks, Toolchain, Gnome, LibreOffice, Pipewire Testing Updates …

Thank you, everyone! I might just stick to the Snap version of the program, then. I’m hoping that dark mode corruption error gets fixed sometime in the future. Not sure why it happens on the Snap version and not the pacman version. Appreciate the support!

Hi @eric56379 and Welcome to the Manjaro community. [image] eric56379: Does anyone know why this could be happening? No, and frankly, I would not persist with Opera if I were you. Allow me to suggest using Vivaldi instead, which is available in the official repositories: sudo pacman -S viv…

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NGr 31 March 2024 18:11 5

Teo:

I did not do a research why, but usually the reason to remove otherwise good software has something to do with licenses or propitiery parts.

[Testing Update] 2024-02-15 - Phosh, KDE Frameworks, Toolchain, Gnome, LibreOffice, Pipewire Testing Updates

Indeed. Who wants Chinese spyware? We already have enough with Mozilla and Google in the U.S. For those that do not know, the original Opera developer moved on to create Vivaldi. Find another browser, probably. It takes me about 2.5 hours to build chromium on a fast machine. I don’t think you’ll want to bother trying to build opera at all no matter how fast your machine is. EDIT: If you would like to discuss, please create a new topic.

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