Are you a fan of Opera web browser? And a Linux desktop user too? Well, this one goes out to you! Canonical and Opera SA have announced that Opera is now available as a Snap in the Snap Store. Simply put, you can now easily install Opera on almost any Linux distribution.

The development comes shortly after PowerShell being made available on Linux as an Ubuntu snap by Microsoft.

Opera, founded in 1995 in Oslo, has been delivering browsers and AI-driven content delivery products to 322 million users worldwide across a range of devices and operating systems.

The addition of Opera to the Snap Store enables users of all major Linux distributions to benefit from the auto-updating and security features that Snaps provide. The Opera snap is supported on Debian, Fedora, Linux Mint, Manjaro, Elementary, OpenSUSE, Ubuntu and more distributions.

“We are happy to say that the installation of our browser on Linux just got easier than ever before,” said Krystian Kolondra, Opera EVP Browsers.

“We are delighted to welcome Opera to the Snap Store and further expand the choice of applications available to the Linux community. It is popular applications, such as Opera, that have driven the impressive growth of new snaps to the store and ever-increasing user installs over the last year,” added Jamie Bennett, VP of Engineering, IoT and Devices at Canonical.

Snaps are containerised software packages, designed to work securely within any Linux environment across desktop, the cloud and IoT devices. Thousands of snaps have been launched since 2016, with their appeal coming from the automatic updates and roll-back features, plus security benefits.

Check the following links below to install Opera or run snap to install Opera: Opera developer and Opera Stable.