Disclaimer: I wrote this script for my own personal usage. It is not officially supported by Opera Software.
This script converts an Opera Debian package into standalone (portable) format. If you do not already have it, fetch it as follows:
git clone https://gist.github.com/8416e36372f1a976a713.git
Now use the script to convert an Opera package as follows:
sh standalone-opera.sh opera-developer_27.0.1670.0_amd64.deb
When the script is done you will have a suitably directory called. You can run the copy of Opera stored within it as follows:
opera-developer_27.0.1670.0_amd64/run &
Copy or move the directory wherever you like.
You could actually remove the whole sandbox section if you want to run Opera 29+ on system with a Linux kernel of 3.17 or newer, as the sandbox does not need root privileges on newer kernels to work correctly.