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When you start Opera over a console and get following errors, it means that you haven’t configured the Java plugin into opera:

ERROR: ld.so: object ‘libjvm.so’ from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object ‘libawt.so’ from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
opera: libjava.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

If you wish to use Java in Opera, you have to install first the JRE, the Java Runtime Environment. In a Debian/Ubuntu system, just install the package “sun-java6-jre” (maybe you have to enable the “non-free” and “contrib” apt-get sources first).

Next configure Opera:
 Select the menu “Tools” -> “Preferences…”
 Goto Tab “Advanced” and select “Content”
 Activate checkbox “Enable Java”
 Klick on button “Java options…”. You can now select the path to Java JRE

In my case the Java Path was “/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/lib/i386″

Restart ist required and now Java should work in Opera.