Installing Opera on Ubuntu Gnome 17.04 removes Apt

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I am unable to install Opera (stable, beta and developer) on Ubuntu Gnome 17.04. It says the installation of Opera requires the removal of 5 packages, apt and apt-transport being two of them.

Any ideas how to install Opera without breaking apt?

Thanks.

Answer

I have noticed same issue with my opera package. It demanded apt-transport-https even thought i have it installed in my system.
The problem is that the system was 64bit but package I downloaded was 32bit. I just needed to download and install right version.
Go to your download history in the browser and copy Opera url. It should be something like this:

https://download3.operacdn.com/pub/opera/desktop/45.0.2552.812/linux/opera-stable_45.0.2552.812_i386.deb

Change i386 part to amd64 and download it with wget. It should be like this.

wget https://download3.operacdn.com/pub/opera/desktop/45.0.2552.812/linux/opera-stable_45.0.2552.812_amd64.deb

When install it as usual with dpkg.

sudo dpkg -i opera-stable_45.0.2552.812_amd64.deb

I hope it helps.

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