Posted by Vince Wadhwani on Feb 12, 2008

If you're into testing your websites on lots of different browsers then you probably have a solution for IE6, IE7, Safari, Konqueror and Firefox. If you're using the AMD64 version of Debian or Ubuntu you may also want to add Opera to the mix. Unfortunately, if you go through their website you'll only be offered the i386 build. So what do you do if you want the Opera browser natively on your x86_64 machine?

Thankfully, the solution is super super simple (hey, this is a *quick* tip). Head over to the Opera FTP Site and grab the package appropriate for your machine. In my case, I took the pre-packaged AMD 64 deb file. (note if that last link breaks just head over to the FTP site and grab the file that ends with .deb)

Once you've got it downloaded, install it simply by typing:

sudo dpkg -i opera_9.50-20071024.2-shared-qt_amd64.deb

(Replace the filename with the one you downloaded) And that's it! Now go back through all your sites and make sure they still look good!