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Opera is a multi-platform web browser.

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USE flags

USE flags for www-client/opera A fast and secure web browser

+ffmpeg-chromium Use Chromium FFmpeg fork (media-video/ffmpeg-chromium) rather than mainline FFmpeg (media-video/ffmpeg)

+proprietary-codecs Enable codecs for patent-encumbered audio and video formats.

+suid Enable setuid root program(s)

qt6 Add support for the Qt 6 application and UI framework

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Accept License

In order to install Opera, the user needs to accept the 'OPERA-2018' license agreement. A copy of the license can be found at '/var/db/repos/gentoo/licenses/OPERA-2018'. Read with:

user $less /var/db/repos/gentoo/licenses/OPERA-2018

And to agree:

root #echo "www-client/opera OPERA-2018" >> /etc/portage/package.license

Emerge

Opera is distributed as only pre-built binaries. To install:

root #emerge --ask www-client/opera

Using Opera as a media player

You can play media files in opera as a basic media player:

user $opera ~/Videos/example.mp4

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