[SOLVED] having issues installing vivaldi browser in excalibur

mamaforestcritter · 2025-12-29 04:30:44

I just installed excalibur on a lenovo yoga and downloaded vivaldi file for install. I may be doing something (or everything) wrong but I have tried ALL the related info I can find with no success. Message is invariable that it is unable to locate package. I've checked my typing, tried a new download and a bunch of other things I'm not sure I remember at this point. I'm not a super terminal user and my "linux english" is sketchy but I've waded my way so far from DOS (yeah, before windows) red hat (not that I remember much} through windows hell and my Mac that I have had to assimilate for work so i'm not exactly a newbie. If somebody here has the patience to help me figure this out I'd appreciate it.

First, can Vivaldi be run on excalibur? I installed it myself on debian and my son installed it on my last laptop when he upgraded me to. devuan chimera.

If so, what are my install options?

What could be some reasons that the file can't be found?

Please and thank you!

PS Having same issue with installing Basilisk. Unable to locate package. I'm assuming at this point I'm missing a step.

Last edited by mamaforestcritter (2025-12-29 04:53:52)

Ron · 2025-12-29 12:00:32

I have run Vilvaldi on Devuan, but it's been a while now, so I don't know if anything has changed. You are trying it from the .deb file, right?

For Basilisk, you don't need to "install" it. Just download the correct one, extract the folder somewhere, and run the file "basilisk" from inside the "basilisk" folder. I use Pale Moon and do it the same way. I extract the folder to the Templates folder and created a shortcut on the panel for it /home/ron/Templates/palemoon/palemoon. Just replace palemoon with basilisk.

mamaforestcritter · 2025-12-29 16:37:59

I am using the deb file. i downloaded it and attempted an install with these variations that were suggested in help instructions I could find

sudo apt-get -y install ./vivaldi-stable_7.7.3851.66-1_amd64.deb
sudo apt-get -y install vivaldi-stable_7.7.3851.66-1_amd64.deb
sudo apt-get install vivaldi-stable_7.7.3851.66-1_amd64.deb
sudo apt install vivaldi-stable_7.7.3851.66-1_amd64.deb

Am I missing a step or using the wrong command? Is there something additional I need to do with the vivaldi file I downloaded?

greenjeans · 2025-12-29 16:48:13

Hi, usually when installing a local package I type the full path to the .deb even if i've opened the terminal within the folder the .deb's located at.

sudo apt-get install /path/to/package/vivaldi-stable_7.7.3851.66-1_amd64.deb

For an easy GUI way to install local packages, try the Gdebi package installer, once installed you can just right-click a .deb and it will offer to install it with Gdebi.

Don't know if this helps but thought i'd throw it out there for general purposes.

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mamaforestcritter · 2025-12-29 16:48:26

I think I see what I missed.

Installing Vivaldi via the terminal
After downloading a suitable package for your distro, you can use the following commands (from the directory where you saved Vivaldi) to install one of our Linux packages directly from the terminal [where ‘vivaldi*‘ equals the name of the Vivaldi install package].

Ubuntu/Debian based distros:
sudo apt-get -y install ./vivaldi*.deb

This part:(from the directory where you saved Vivaldi)
Unfortunately I'm not sure what they mean by this.

mamaforestcritter · 2025-12-29 16:57:32

Thank you Green Jeans, that explains what I was missing. I always seem to miss the simple things...
I never realized there was a difference where you opened the terminal or that that was even really a thing...DOS was so much simpler (:

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greenjeans · 2025-12-29 16:59:11

This part:(from the directory where you saved Vivaldi)
Unfortunately I'm not sure what they mean by this.

They're just talking about what I mentioned, having your pathways correct in your command, if in doubt always fill in the full path in your command, and that way the terminal can be opened anywhere and the commands issued from there.

sudo apt-get install /home/mamaforestcritter/Downloads/vivaldi-stable_7.7.3851.66-1_amd64.deb

Something like the above, just replace the correct name for your user and whatever directory the .deb is in.

pcalvert · 2025-12-29 20:34:58

I prefer to install the gdebi-core package and then use gdebi like this:

cd ~/Downloads
sudo gdebi <package-name>.deb

This approach has rarely (if ever) given me any problems.

Fielding · 2025-12-31 23:05:22

My partner who is the "tech savvy" person has tried installing Vivaldi multiple times and it appears to be installed under internet but only a GRAYED OUT screen shows up and then can't close...or uninstall!! He tried many instructions from the forum suggestions and other things from the Internet but nothing working. I have Devuan Excalibur 6. Something is very broken it seems to me!!! Again, I'm not the tech savvy one but if anyone can explain what's going on in terms he can follow/understand, that would be much appreciated!!!

mamaforestcritter · 2026-01-01 05:13:33

I used the instructions above to install it with apt install and the full path and it is working great. I was missing the full path for the install. Is it possible that the wrong vivaldi file is downloaded? What are the computer specs and which devuan excalibur download, example live usb or fully installed, which desktop are you using? If you can't uninstall there should still be some way to delete the file from your system. The more information you can detail about the setup. the better someone here can help you. Vivaldi does occasionally freeze on my son's windows laptop when we use it to watch tv and it takes xing out sometimes a couple of times or occasionally a restart to get vivaldi to behave so there is the possibility that there is a vivaldi glitch even though it usually works smoothly. (or the windows 10 on my son's laptop is having seizures,we don't really know...)

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Fielding · 2026-01-03 03:08:04

Problems installing Vivaldi....won't install correctly, can't uninstall. Had similar issues with Brave....see below. Any help would be appreciated!

Software is: KDE Plasma Version 6.3.6; KDE Framework Version is 6.13.0; QT version is 6.8.2; Kernal is 6.12.57 +deb13-amd 64 (64 bit); Graphics is Wayland.
Full install from Vivaldi website.

There were 9 error codes...many duplicated but below are a few.

W: Repositories should provide a clear-signed InRelease file, but none found at https://repo.vivaldi.com/stable/deb/dis … /InRelease. W: An error occurred during the signature verification. The repository is not updated and the previous index files will be used. OpenPGP signature verification failed: https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com stable InRelease: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 0686B78420038257 E: https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com stable InRelease is not (yet) available (The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 0686B78420038257) W: Repositories should provide a clear-signed InRelease file, but none found at https://repo.vivaldi.com/stable/deb/dis … /InRelease. W: An error occurred during the signature verification. The repository is not updated and the previous index files will be used. OpenPGP signature verification failed: https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com stable InRelease: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 0686B78420038257 E: https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com stable InRelease is not (yet) available (The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 0686B78420038257)

steve_v · 2026-01-03 05:16:06

You have third-party repos with missing signing keys, so apt is (rightly) ignoring them.
See the Debian wiki and apt-secure(8). apt-key was removed in trixie/excalibur, any "guides" on the net that mention it are out-of-date.

For brave, you might want to try extrepo.
As for Vivaldi, their website claims that after installing the the .deb package "our Linux update repositories will be configured automatically for you to receive updates".
Personally I doubt this "Users are stupid so we don't give technical details, just click button and we'll handle everything" corpo-speak bullshit, but I'm not about to install the thing to find out.
AFAICT, this is pretty much what should be on that page WRT repo setup and key import. The security implications of using /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d as in this example are explained in the wiki above.

I don't use either of these packages myself, so YMMV. Frankly why people need multiple ~~"privacy" browsers~~ proprietary and/or crypto nonsense packing chrome forks from third-party sources rather than just configuring the tested offerings in the stable repos to their liking is beyond me, but whatever. vOv.

Also, as always, DonkBreakDe[bi|vu]an. Note comment on "other repositories created to distribute single applications".

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RedGreen925 · 2026-01-03 08:42:14

As for Vivaldi, their website claims that after installing the the .deb package "our Linux update repositories will be configured automatically for you to receive updates".
Personally I doubt this "Users are stupid so we don't give technical details, just click button and we'll handle everything" corpo-speak bullshit, but I'm not about to install the thing to find out.

I did not install the piece of trash but did download and extract the package and its data payload. It puts the browser in the opt directory and nowhere is there to be found a gpg key. They install a cron job file which when trying to look at has nothing in it so it is a bit of a mystery what it does. I tried their junk once many years ago and gave up once I discovered they were more interested in controlling their "smart" lights from the browser than actually fixing the bugs I reported. My reward for that effort was constant spam from the scumbags on the email that reported the bugs such that I had to create a special filter for anything coming from them going straight to /dev/null. That is the type of people you deal with when using it.

golinux · 2026-01-03 15:12:25

I also had a brief go'round with vivaldi many years ago. Kicked it to the curb when I learned more about it.

steve_v · 2026-01-03 15:35:06

It puts the browser in the opt directory and nowhere is there to be found a gpg key. They install a cron job file which when trying to look at has nothing in it so it is a bit of a mystery what it does.

Everything is inline in the package postinst script, the repository configuration and key signature (base64, for reasons) are piped into the config files... Because of course that's how they do it - it's the best way to fuck around with the system (making sure their browser is the very highest priority in alternatives for example) and "support" multiple distros with a single .deb.
The crontab file is a symlink to /opt/vivaldi/cron/vivaldi, which is a copy-paste from the postinst and apparently rewrites the apt configuration and keys every day... Again, reasons, presumably.

Proprietary vendors are all the same when it comes to packaging, total disregard for established standards. Everything that can be an executable script is, windows lets vendors screw around however they like and execute whatever they want so that's how it must be done everywhere.

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Fielding · 2026-01-03 18:10:20

Anybody know how to get rid of? Not showing up as installed in Discover but can't unpin from task bar and/or delete grayed out screen with Vivaldo logo.

Has anyone had better luck with Brave???

golinux · 2026-01-03 18:21:51

Have you seen this from Debian?

https://wiki.debian.org/WebBrowsers

Fielding · 2026-01-03 18:31:09

No have not seen this link...will check it out. Thanks.

steve_v · 2026-01-03 19:16:45

Anybody know how to get rid of?

apt purge vivaldi-stable

...probably. Assuming the package didn't do anything else idiotic in postinst. It doesn't appear to, but I didn't look very hard.

Discover

Is a janky PoS at the best of times (ditto packagekit in general). Use apt at the CLI, or if you must have a GUI, synaptic.

Last edited by steve_v (2026-01-03 19:17:34)

Ron · 2026-01-03 20:13:01

steve_v wrote:

As for Vivaldi, their website claims that after installing the the .deb package "our Linux update repositories will be configured automatically for you to receive updates".
Personally I doubt this "Users are stupid so we don't give technical details, just click button and we'll handle everything" corpo-speak bullshit, but I'm not about to install the thing to find out.

I can vouch for this when I used Vivaldi a while ago. After installing it, it was showing in Synaptic and updates came through it (Synaptic / apt). It has been a while since I've used it, I'm not quite sure of all the negative feelings being said about it here. What's wrong with it? It's no worse than Chrome, is it? Of course that's not saying much anyway.

steve_v · 2026-01-03 20:46:24

What's wrong with it?

It's proprietary, so who really knows?
"Negative feelings" about closed-source browsers and packages that are not compliant with Debian free-software guidelines or packaging policy, on the discussion board for a Debian-based FOSS distribution, are not particularly surprising.

It's no worse than Chrome, is it?

That's really not a very high bar to pass, typhoid is "no worse" than lung cancer, but I for one don't want either.
Brave and the like are at least open-source, so any dubious "features" are readily inspect-able.

Last edited by steve_v (2026-01-03 20:47:41)

Fielding · 2026-01-03 21:12:46

Tried this apt purge vivaldi-stable and other suggestions but no luck. Will probably have to uninstall Devuan to get rid of???? Negative feelings are just because it caused alot of problems...really "looked" like a great browser to use but not so much. Wanted to get away from Firefox/Edge/Chrome etc. so will have to keep looking. Thanks all!

greenjeans · 2026-01-03 21:18:01

Has anyone had better luck with Brave???

Yeah at least on Daedalus, running it right now, works fine after you do some initial work on settings. Ad-blocking is pretty good.

Main thing I like about it, is that it's not Firefox. Second thing I like about it is that it's not Firefox. No ridiculous scrollbar nonsense, that's another plus.

Ron · 2026-01-03 21:26:30

I don't have a horse in this race, I use Chromium from the repos, and Pale Moon. As far as Brave goes, I've read some bad stuff about it as well.

pcalvert · 2026-01-03 21:36:35

@Fielding

Try this and post the output in a reply:

aptitude search vivaldi

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