How to install Vivaldi Browser on Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver Linux

Objective

The objective is to install Vivaldi Browser on Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver Linux

Operating System and Software Versions

• Operating System: – Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver

Requirements

Privileged access to your Ubuntu System as root or via sudo command is required.

Difficulty

EASY

Conventions

• # – requires given linux commands to be executed with root privileges either directly as a root user or by use of sudo command
• $ – requires given linux commands to be executed as a regular non-privileged user

Instructions

Add Vivaldi Repository

Let’s start by adding a Vivaldi repository and keyring. Open up terminal and enter:

$ wget -qO- http://repo.vivaldi.com/stable/linux_signing_key.pub | sudo apt-key add -
$ sudo add-apt-repository "deb [arch=i386,amd64] http://repo.vivaldi.com/stable/deb/ stable main"

Install Vivaldi Browser

At this stage to install Vivaldi browser on Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver is easy as executing the below command:

$ sudo apt install vivaldi-stable

Start Vivaldi Browser

You can start the Vivaldi browser from command line by executing:

$ vivaldi