Testing the Vivaldi TP on Linux systems where no package is available
Fetch the rpm package:
wget http://vivaldi.com/download/Vivaldi_TP_1.0.83.38-1.x86_64.rpm
Switch to root (use sudo -s
, if your system only uses sudo
), then extract its core contents into /opt:
tail -c+83823 Vivaldi_TP_1.0.83.38-1.x86_64.rpm | bzcat | ( cd / ; cpio -imd './opt/vivaldi/*' )
exit # To leave the root environment
Vivaldi can now be started via the following command (issue this as your normal user, not root):
/opt/vivaldi/vivaldi &
If you see the error message "error while loading shared libraries: libudev.so.0", issue the following to fix it (as root or prefaced with sudo
), then try again:
ln -s /usr/lib64/libudev.so.1 /opt/vivaldi/libudev.so.0
To remove the technology preview issue the following (as root or prefaced with sudo
):
rm -rv /opt/vivaldi
Note: The value used in the tail command was calculated as follows (using
bash
):