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Disclaimer: I wrote this script for my own personal use. Completely unofficial and unsupported by Vivaldi Technologies. However, others are welcome to use it at their own risk.

This script converts a Vivaldi browser Linux package into standalone, self-contained install. It lets you use the rpm and deb packages in a similar way to how people generally used the old Opera (Presto) tar packages—for quick testing, without committing to a full, system-wide install. This could be used for testing a specific setup or version, without touching the system wide settings (profile). It can also be used to create a portable (USB install) of Vivaldi that you could store on an external disk, for sharing between computers. A script that supports integration with the desktop environment is also provided.

Usage example:

sh standalone-vivaldi.sh vivaldi-snapshot-1.7.702.1-1.x86_64.rpm

When the script is done you will have a suitably version named directory.

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With the release of Vivaldi 2.2, this page is now obsolete and unmaintained. Widevine is fetched automatically on post install of our official packages. The information below and the script are left for historical reasons but will not be updated.

If you are using something newer than Vivaldi 2.2, you should not be using this script as there is simply no need. Any need you think you have for it would be a bug IMHO and thus should be logged in a bug report. Before you do so however, you should also checkout the Vivaldi help page on Widevine, on Linux

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Summary

A bunch of people asked how they could use this script with pure Chromium on Ubuntu. The following is a quick guide. Though I still suggest you at least try Vivaldi. Who knows, you might like it. Worried about proprietary componants? Remember that libwidevinecdm.so is a b

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#!/bin/bash
RPMHDRLGTH=$(LC_CTYPE=C grep -abom1 '.7zXZ\|]'$'\000\000''....'$'\377\377\377\377\377\377''\|BZh9\|'$'\037\213\b' "$1")
case "$RPMHDRLGTH" in
  *7zXZ) COMPRESSOR=xz ;;
  *]*)   COMPRESSOR=lzma ;;
  *BZh9) COMPRESSOR=bzip2 ;;
  *)     COMPRESSOR=gzip ;;
esac
tail -c+$[${RPMHDRLGTH%:*}+1] "$1" | $COMPRESSOR -d

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#!/bin/bash
# latest-firefox Version 1.6.2
# Contributer: drgibbon (thanks!)

# This script will find the latest Firefox binary package, download it
# and repackage it into Slackware format.

# I don't use Firefox for regular browsing but it is handy for
# comparative tests against Vivaldi. :P

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#!/bin/bash
# latest-Vivaldi Version 1.6.5

# This script will find the latest Vivaldi binary package, download it
# and repackage it into Slackware format.

# Copyright 2019 Ruari Oedegaard, Oslo, Norway All rights reserved.
#
# Redistribution and use of this script, with or without modification,
# is permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

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Intro

The update-ffmpeg and update-widevine scripts included in the Vivaldi install directory are provided to fix situations where proprietary media (AVC/H.264 and AAC) and Widevine (DRM/EME) respectively, are not setup correctly.

These scripts are primarily intended to be run as root (or under sudo) as they create and update files and directories that are root owned. However both support a command line option (--user) that adjusts their installation directories and thus allows them to be run without escalation.

The --user options were made for internal usage, with locally ‘unpacked’ copies of Vivaldi (i.e. not installed). However, it is possible to use them with standard installs (albeit with a little tweaking in the case of update-widevine).

update-ffmpeg

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Createpkg

Intro

This script provides a simple method for tracking software that you have built from source, or binaries that you want to repackage from another distribution. It also simplifies transferring the software to other machines for install or backup. It works as a nice secondary package management tool, without the need to work with complex, distro specific, build tools.

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Vivaldi "Standalone Mode" on Mac

The following commands will produce a small application that allows you to run Vivaldi—or any other Chromium-based browser—in Standalone mode on a Mac. This could be used for testing a specific setup or version, without touching the system wide settings (profile). It can also be used to create a portable (USB install) of Vivaldi that you could store on an external disk, for sharing between computers.

Manual method

Start Terminal and issue the following:

mkdir -p Standalone\ Mode.app/Contents/MacOS

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This page is no longer maintained, go to https://help.vivaldi.com/article/html5-proprietary-media-on-linux/ for help

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The included script 'widevine-flash_armhf.sh' fetches a ChromeOS image for ARM and extracts the Widevine and Flash binaries, saving them in a compressed archive. Since it downloads a fairly large file (2Gb+ on disk after download) it is recommended that you run the script on a machine that has plenty of disk space.

To install the resultant archive, issue the following on your ARM machine–after copying over the archive if needed:

sudo tar Cfx / widevine-flash-20200124_armhf.tgz

(Where 'widevine-flash-20200124_armhf.tgz' is updated to reflect the actual name of the created archive)