Opera vastly outdated

[Oliver]

Hi, i am using Linux Mint 17.3 Cinnamon 64 bit. It's not the latest Mint, but to my knowledge as an LTS still supported. I want to install the Opera browser, but Synaptic only offers version 12.16.1860-1linuxmint.

Operas home pages says the current Linux version is 46.0.2597.26...

[Oliver (ok23)]

Opera 12 is from the year 2011 and still has the old Presto eninge instead of Webkit inside. It's so old, _it might even be a security risk_... Since thenm there wer 33 major releases (number 13 was skipped, 14 was the first to use Webkit). After Webkit, Opera moved on to Blink (versiopn 15 and on).

[Oliver (ok23)]

Opera just released opera-stable_46.0.2597.32_amd64

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

The opera package was deleted from the Ubuntu archive in 2008.

[Oliver (ok23)]

Obviously not. 12.16.1860-1linuxmint was what Synaptic offered to me, and I did not install any additional repository.

[Oliver (ok23)]

Hm, default package sources are:
deb http://packages.linuxmint.com rosa main upstream import

deb http://extra.linuxmint.com rosa main

deb http://de2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://de2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty-updates main restricted universe multiverse

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ trusty partner

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

Due to the version number, I would assume 12.16.1860-1linuxmint is packaged directly in Linux Mint. You can double-check this with `apt policy opera` which will list available versions and which repo they come from. I'm not familiar enough with Mint to know how to best contact package maintainers though :/