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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

The following will allow you to test Chrome with a Vivaldi user agent. Shutdown Chrome and start a Terminal (or cmd.exe on Windows), then paste in the code that is relevant for your platform and press “Enter”–you can triple-click to select an entire line.

Testing with Chrome

NOTE: There is little point testing in Vivaldi because old versions already had workarounds for these specific issues and from 2.10 onwards we use a Chrome User Agent string.

Windows

"%PROGRAMFILES(X86)%\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/79.0.3945.94 Safari/537.36 Vivaldi/2.10.1745.21"

Vivaldi Private Window Launcher for macOS

The following commands will produce a small application that allows you to launch Vivaldi in Private mode on a Mac.

Start Terminal paste in the the following code (pressing Enter when done):

mkdir -p Vivaldi\ Private.app/Contents/MacOS
printf '#!/bin/sh\nopen -a Vivaldi.app --args --incognito' > Vivaldi\ Private.app/Contents/MacOS/Vivaldi\ Private
chmod +x Vivaldi\ Private.app/Contents/MacOS/Vivaldi\ Private

make install, uninstall help (howto remove)

Background

A common mistake for users who are new to Linux (and even a few seasoned users) is to install a package from source without any clear idea about how they will remove it in the future, should they want to.

The classic instructions to install a source package are ./configure && make && make install. This (or slight variants) can work nicely for installation but

The included script 'widevine-flash_armhf.sh' fetches a ChromeOS image for ARM and extracts the Widevine binary, saving it 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)

	#!/bin/sh -eu

	# This script will convert an official Vivaldi Linux package into Slackware
	# package format.
	#
	# To use, just run this script, followed by the name of the Vivaldi package.
	#
	# Note: Since this script was created with Slackware 15 and above in mind, it
	# uses the new 'douninst.sh' script to clear down any proprietary media libs
	# fetched by 'update-ffmpeg' during post install.

	#!/bin/sh -eu
	a=off
	if [ "x${1:-}" = "x-n" ] && [ -n "${2:-}" ]; then
	n="${2#vivaldi-}"
	c="Vivaldi-$n"
	a=on
	echo "Using the name: vivaldi-$n"
	shift 2
	fi
	if [ -n "${1:-}" ]; then

	#!/bin/sh -eu

	TMP="${TMP:-/tmp}"
	REPACKDIR="$TMP/vivaldi-sbo-tar/vivaldi"
	mkdir -p "$REPACKDIR"
	cd "$REPACKDIR"

	# Find out Vivaldi stable version and calculate md5sums
	VERSION="${VERSION:-$(wget -qO- http://repo.vivaldi.com/archive/deb/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz \| gzip -d \| grep -A6 -x 'Package: vivaldi-stable' \| sed -n '/Version/s/.* //p' \| sort -t. -k 1,1n -k 2,2n -k 3,3n -k 4,4n \| tail -n 1 \| cut -d- -f1)}"

	#!/bin/sh -eu
	#
	# This script allows you to create a Slackware package from software you
	# previously installed manually (e.g. via `make install`).
	#
	# Usage:
	#
	# ./script name-version /path/to/reference/file [seconds]
	#
	# Provide the name and version of the package, path to one file that forms

	#!/bin/sh
	mkdir -p ~/.local/share/applications
	cat << END > ~/.local/share/applications/vivaldi-private.desktop
	[Desktop Entry]
	Version=1.0
	Name=Vivaldi (Private)
	Exec=vivaldi-stable --incognito
	StartupNotify=true
	Terminal=false
	Icon=vivaldi