Vivaldi is a popular web browser that uses Chromium as web engine, it offers a lot of features such as : Built-in ad blocker, tracking protection, tab grouping, built-in mail client and lot more.
While Vivaldi is not fully open source, well let's call it partly open source as only the UI of the browser is closed source, the other parts of the code are open source and you can download it from https://vivaldi.com/source/ in case you want to audit the code.
In this tutorial you will learn how to Install Vivaldi web browser on Linux Mint, Debian and Ubuntu.
Install Vivaldi Browser using GUI
Step 1 - Download Vivaldi
Downloading Vivaldi is very easy, all you have to do is browse to Vivaldi website and click the download button. Once you load the vivaldi website on your browser, you should see the Download button, depending the Linux distribution that you are using the download button should show the correct version that you need to download.
For example: I'm using Linux Mint, and the download button shows the .deb file, same thing applies for Ubuntu/Debian as well.
So to download Vivaldi simply click the download button, and the download should start
Step 2 - Install Vivaldi
Once you have downloaded the .deb file from Vivaldi website, now you can go ahead and install it.
There are two methods to install Vivaldi's deb package
1) By using GUI
Go to the downloads folder where you downloaded the deb file, and you should see this file downloaded on your computer vivaldi-stable_5.3.2679.70-1_amd64.deb, this is the file that you need to install.
Simply double click to execute the deb file and click the "Install Package" button once you see the gdebi packager window showing as the image below.
Enter the user's account password that you are using to Install Vivaldi and then click authenticate, and the installation process should start.
2) By using the Terminal
Another way of Installing Vivaldi's deb file is by using the terminal only, this means you don't have to browse manually on the Downloads folder or do anything that involves GUI.
All you have to do is to browse to the directory where the deb file got downloaded.
For example, if you downloaded vivaldi on the Downloads folder then you need to browse to the Downloads folder by using the cd command
cd DownloadsThis command will take you to the downloads folder
Next you need to run the apt install command from the Downloads folder
sudo apt install ./vivaldi-stable_5.3.2679.70-1_amd64.debAnd the installation of Vivaldi should start, you should see an output like this on your terminal
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'vivaldi-stable' instead of './vivaldi-stable_5.3.2679.70-1_amd64.deb'
The following NEW packages will be installed:
vivaldi-stable
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 7 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/89,9 MB of archives.
After this operation, 319 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 /home/e94/Downloads/vivaldi-stable_5.3.2679.70-1_amd64.deb vivaldi-stable amd64 5.3.2679.70-1 [89,9 MB]
Selecting previously unselected package vivaldi-stable.
(Reading database ... 411893 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../vivaldi-stable_5.3.2679.70-1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking vivaldi-stable (5.3.2679.70-1) ...
Setting up vivaldi-stable (5.3.2679.70-1) ...
Once the installation process has been completed, you can now Launch Vivaldi from your applications menu.
Install Vivaldi Browser via terminal
Step 1 - Add the GPG key to your system
Import the gpg key by running the command below.
wget -qO- https://repo.vivaldi.com/archive/linux_signing_key.pub | gpg --dearmor | sudo dd of=/usr/share/keyrings/vivaldi-browser.gpg
Step 2 - Add Vivaldi's repo to your system
Run the command below in order to add Vivaldi's repository to your system, this is necessary because without adding their repository to your system you won't be able to download vivaldi.
echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/vivaldi-browser.gpg arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture)] https://repo.vivaldi.com/archive/deb/ stable main" | sudo dd of=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/vivaldi-archive.list
Step 3 - Update and Install Vivaldi on your system
Once you have added the GPG key and the repository on your system, now you can proceed to install Vivaldi by running the command below, this command will update the packages and install the stable version of Vivaldi on your computer.
sudo apt update && sudo apt install vivaldi-stable
Launch Vivaldi
Just like any internet related software Vivaldi will be listed under Internet category on your Linux Mint's applications menu.
To launch Vivaldi simply type vivaldi on the search box or go to the Internet category and click Vivaldi.
Menu > Internet > Vivaldi
Conclusion
In this tutorial I explained step by step how to install Vivaldi web browser on Linux Mint, Ubuntu and Debian.
