Opening Opera as user

[Rem P Roberti]

>> I installed linux-opera, and I guess I made a mistake by opening it
>> the first time as root, when I should have opened as user.  At any
>> rate, I can now only open the browser as root, and when I do I get
>> this message:
>>
>> opera: $HOME set to /root. Use -personaldir if you do not want to use
>> /root/.opera/
>>
> Don't focus on this because you shouldn't be running it as root at all.
> What actually happens when you try to run it as an normal user?

Nothing.  No error messages.  The program will simply not open at all if 
I try to do so as user.

Rem