Re: Disable check for updates in Opera

On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Ruarí Ødegaard <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 13:44:36 +0200, Ruarí Ødegaard <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>  On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 10:20:07 +0200, Serdar Dalgic <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>  Any idea on where this "system configuration file" can be?
>>>
>>
>> As per the man page. There are two system wide configuration files:
>>
>> /etc/operaprefs_default.ini
>>  Default settings for Opera configurations; may be overridden by the
>> operaprefs.ini in a user's personal configuration directory.
>>
>> /etc/operaprefs_fixed.ini
>>  System settings for Opera configurations; cannot be overridden by users.
>>
>> However if you are packaging your own version of Opera for a distro I
>> personally would not make the change there but instead do it via a custom
>> directory included in the package itself. This is how Opera Composer on
>> Windows and Mac works.
>>
>> I briefly explain the process here:
>>
>> http://my.opera.com/community/**forums/findpost.pl?id=9124692<http://my.opera.com/community/forums/findpost.pl?id=9124692>
>>
>
>
Dear Ruarí;


> The best way to work out how to write the system wide files (or the
> operaprefs.ini within a custom directory) is to start Opera with a clean
> profile (e.g. opera -pd /tmp/opera_test_profile ). Make the one change you
> want to make. Shut down Opera and inspect it's operaprefs.ini (e.g.
> /tmp/opera_test_profile/**operaprefs.ini ). Then you can copy the setting
> to your other files and check they are applied.
>
>
>
Thanks for your information. I've done just as you did, and added a
/etc/operaprefs_default.ini file to the package. Silly of me to skip looking
at the man page (I even didn't know there was a man page for opera :) )

Things seem to be OK for now. I've checked and the following config exists
and being applied to Opera usage.

[User Prefs]
Level Of Update Automation=0


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- Serdar Dalgic
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