How to obtain the latest .deb package of Vivalvi browser?

Question

How to download the latest .deb of Vivaldi browser using wget generic command (with the help of wildcards)? Vivaldi can't be downloaded without entering the exact name and number of the latest build. For example,

wget https://downloads.vivaldi.com/stable/vivaldi-stable_3.5.2115.81-1_amd64.deb

What I want is something easy like in the case of firefox and google-chrome, where

wget -nc -O ${HERE}/FirefoxSetup.tar.bz2 "https://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-latest-ssl&os=linux64&lang=en-US"

and

wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb

are working very well, downloading the latest versions of these browsers without the need to specify the exact name and build number, unlike in the case of Vivaldi. I want to have a script that downloads this browser(Vivaldi) anytime without my intervention to update/change it.

Answer 1

OK, let me parse JSON from Ubuntu MATE Software Boutique for you.

Browser	Repository	install command
Vivaldi	http://repo.vivaldi.com/archive/deb/	wget https://repo.vivaldi.com/archive/deb/pool/main/vivaldi-stable_3.5.2115.81-1_amd64.deb && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y ./vivaldi-stable_3.5.2115.81-1_amd64.deb
Opera	https://deb.opera.com/opera-stable/	wget https://deb.opera.com/opera-stable/pool/non-free/o/opera-stable/opera-stable_73.0.3856.284_amd64.deb && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y ./opera-stable_73.0.3856.284_amd64.deb
Firefox	https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal-updates/firefox	sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install firefox
Chrome	http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/	wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install ./google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb

But this solution is not universal.

More universal solution is to add repositories to the system and then install packages from them:

• Vivaldi

  cd /tmp
  wget http://repo.vivaldi.com/stable/linux_signing_key.pub
  sudo apt-key add linux_signing_key.pub
  sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://repo.vivaldi.com/archive/deb/ stable main"
  sudo apt-get update
  sudo apt-get install vivaldi-stable
  

• Opera

  cd /tmp
  wget https://deb.opera.com/archive.key
  sudo apt-key add archive.key
  sudo add-apt-repository "deb https://deb.opera.com/opera-stable/ stable non-free"
  sudo apt-get update
  sudo apt-get install opera-stable
  

• Firefox

  sudo apt-get update
  sudo apt-get install firefox
  

• Chrome

  cd /tmp
  wget http://dl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub
  sudo apt-key add linux_signing_key.pub
  sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 78BD65473CB3BD13
  sudo add-apt-repository "deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main"
  sudo apt-get update
  sudo apt-get install google-chrome-stable
  

and as the result all these packages will have automatic updates (by unattended upgrades) or manual updates by sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade.

Answer 2

On Debian based systems where APT tool is available, you can download deb packages without installing them by replacing apt-get install with apt-get download in N0rbert's answer. However, since you still want to use wget and avoid APT, you need to first understand, Vivaldi, doesn't name their latest release like Firefox and Google Chrome do. Firefox and Google Chrome generally makes latest/current point to the latest release which Vivaldi don't follow. It just adds the version number in the deb package name.

Since, Vivaldi maintains a file known as Packages which contains information about the builds currently available in the repository for a particular architecture (see How to see all packages in a package repository? Website or command line?). It generally has a stable build and a snapshot. As of now snapshot's information is placed at top. Might confirm later whether the information placement is random or fixed.

A simple bash script would look like this:

#!/bin/bash
wget https://repo.vivaldi.com/archive/deb/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages
ver=$(tac Packages| grep -m1 Version | cut -d " " -f2)
wget https://repo.vivaldi.com/archive/deb/pool/main/vivaldi-stable_"$ver"_amd64.deb
rm Packages

Some explanation: First downloaded the Packages file. Extracted the latest version string and stored in ver variable. Since the stable's information is stored at bottom of the file, tac was used to reverse the rows. Used grep to extract the "version". And to limit results -m flag was used. Since the result is like "Version: VersionNumber", used cut with -f flag to get second field, i.e., VersionNumber. Since debs are in /pool, used wget and value of ver to get the latest build from there. Finally removed Packages file.

If you're using some other architecture you can use that instead of amd64, for example, i386. I assumed that there was no file with name as Packages already existing in the current working directory. You might like to create a new folder specially for this and delete it later from the script itself. Alternatively, you can use -O option from wget.