Wed, Aug 12 2009 | Published in Fedora & RedHat, Techie, openSUSE & SUSE

Google Chrome 3.0.198.1 Released – openSUSE Fedora RPM – Flash Support

By: ben.kevan

Google Chrome 3.0.198.1 Released – openSUSE Fedora RPM – Flash Support

To follow updates I will provide for Chrome RPM packages please bookmark or check:

http://www.benkevan.com/blog/tag/google-chrome/

Google Chrome

Google Chrome

The newest release of the Chrome Unstable browser is upon us..

Here is more information visit:
http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel

Here is a quick Change Log:
Both:
(Bug 18427) Make New Tab Page load faster with custom themes [r22462].
(Bug 18160) Ensure downloads really stop when a user cancels [r22557].
(Bug 13649, Bug 18456) Don't show themes in chrome://extensions/, since that page doesn't work well with them [r22578].
(Bug 18480) Theme the New Tab Page in incognito mode too [r22613].
(Bug 15247) Add a way to restore blacklisted thumbnails on the New Tab Page [r22704].
(Bug 18093) App mode and popup windows should not be themed [r22783].

Linux:
(Bug 14790) Now supporting 50 locales.
Support downloading large files (greater than 2GB) [r22670].
I've made some rpm's to make it easier for you to install on openSUSE (and other RPM variations):

The files are located here:
i386:
http://www.benkevan.com/upload/software/openSUSE/google-chrome-unstable-3.0.198.11-1.i386.rpm
x86_64:
http://www.benkevan.com/upload/software/openSUSE/google-chrome-unstable-3.0.198.1-1.x86_64.rpm

You can install using:
x86_64:
sudo rpm -Uvh http://www.benkevan.com/upload/software/openSUSE/google-chrome-unstable-3.0.198.1-1.x86_64.rpm

i386:
sudo rpm -Uvh http://www.benkevan.com/upload/software/openSUSE/google-chrome-unstable-3.0.198.1-1.i386.rpm

Note: If you get dependency errors please add --nodeps

Due to popular demand I’ve included the symlinks in the build of the rpm package (I’ve tested the 32-bit but not the 64 bit).

I added Requires: gconf2-32bit in the .spec file for RPM’s, but again I wasn’t able to test it since I do not have access to a 64-Bit Box (I’m cheap.. I know.. I can’t afford a new box).. Please someone test and let me know if all worked fine.

Changes:For 64-Bit I have linked the required libraries previously needed by the 32-Bit libgconf-2 packages to the libraries in /opt/google/chrome/lib32. However, I do not have a 64-bit machine to test on, so can someone please test and comment?

If the above rpm installs, but does not run because of a missing library, you can run the following commands:
for i in libsmime3.so libnssutil3.so libnss3.so libssl3.so; do sudo ln -s /usr/lib/$i /usr/lib/$i.1d; done
and
for i in libplds4.so libplc4.so libnspr4.so ; do sudo ln -s /usr/lib/$i /usr/lib/$i.0d; done

Also within this build I did a post script to include PARTIAL flash support (assuming your flash is installed as /usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so) If you have other locations please let me know, and I can change this and look for the file prior to linking it, but too lazy for now).

You can start google chrome with flash support using:
google-chrome --enable-plugins

NOTE: Once I get the .spec to work correctly and install the required 32-bit gconf2 packages, then I will go ahead and start the build service.. so please someone test and let me know if it works..

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14 Comments

  • BenderBendingRodriguez
    August 13, 2009 | Permalink |

    Ben, you are a gem :)

    I tested google-chrome at my mother’s PC (crap Intel GMA945 Celeron 2.4GHz and 512MB RAM), and it started couple of times faster than firefox, it’s flash performance was also better. It is going to be one of the best (if not the best) browsers on linux. Additionally its not slower on linux when compared to the same setup on windows :) Yes, i’m looking at You firefox.

    P.S. Peacekeeper, the browser benchmark (some may not accept it some may) reported google-chrome more than two times faster than firefox on my mother’s PC.

  • Chaz6
    August 15, 2009 | Permalink |

    Thanks for this, I look forward to seeing it in the opensuse build service soon. In the meantime I would like to subscribe to your google chrome posts, however the feed url http://www.benkevan.com/blog/tag/google-chrome/feed/ redirects to http://feeds2.feedburner.com/BenKevansBlog.

  • ben.kevan
    August 15, 2009 | Permalink |

    @Chaz6

    Yeah.. I need to figure out what’s up with that.. Thanks for letting me know..

  • Jonas
    August 17, 2009 | Permalink |

    I always get:

    /opt/google/chrome/chrome: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.9′ not found (required by /opt/google/chrome/chrome)

    when trying to start the 64-bit version using openSUSE 11.1. According to ldd, everything is in place and should work.

  • BenderBendingRodriguez
    August 17, 2009 | Permalink |

    You need to install all 32 bit packages. The 64 bit chromium is in fact 32 bit and it looks like they won’t port it to 64 very fast. If you lack a dependency on a 64 bit box then you might need a xxx-32bit package.

  • jurgis
    August 17, 2009 | Permalink |

    btw to use chrome on opensuse 11.0 cairo 1.4 must be upgraded to 1.6. otherwise it doesn’t start.

  • Jonas
    August 17, 2009 | Permalink |

    @BenderBendingRodriguez

    So it is. 32-bit I mean, both “file” and “ldd” tells me so. And from what I can gather, all xxx-32bit packages are installed (besides, other 32bit programs, admittedly very few, work as they should). At least ldd can find all required 32-bit libs apart from version 3.4.9 of libstdc++.so.6. According to yast, the required package is libstdc++43, which is installed in both 64-bit and 32-bit versions. Do I need to create an additional symlink?

  • jice
    August 17, 2009 | Permalink |

    The rpm works perfectly on Mandriva 2009.1. One has to link the libs as explained (they are in /lib, not /usr/lib on Mandriva). May be you could say this on the next version blog post… (or edit this one ;-)
    I’ve got an old machine and Chrome is eating much more power than does Firefox or Konqueror. May be I’m doing something wrong, but opening the same tabs in Chrome leaves the CPU (Athlon XP 2600+) at 100% all the time!
    By the way, thanks for the packages!

  • Raul Libório
    August 18, 2009 | Permalink |

    RPM do Google Chrome para openSUSE
    “http://rauhmaru.blogspot.com/2009/08/rpm-do-google-chrome-para-opensuse.html”

  • kyle
    August 26, 2009 | Permalink |

    I just installed the 64-bit version on openSUSE 11.1, and it worked right out of the box without any need to link libraries. Thanks!

  • Marc
    August 26, 2009 | Permalink |

    I had to download the file and then run in in terminal but the browser works great. Thanks for building the RPM.

    I use OpenSUSE 11.1 KDE 4.3

  • kolstae
    August 26, 2009 | Permalink |

    kyle :
    I just installed the 64-bit version on openSUSE 11.1, and it worked right out of the box without any need to link libraries. Thanks!

    Same here

    Creating a new build anytime soon?

    Thanks!

  • Juan F. Ruiz
    September 1, 2009 | Permalink |

    Good job, Ben!

    I’m using your rpm’s in my OpenSuSE 11.1 and i can say to you that your last release works fine in an 64 bit PC ( A Quad Core Duo with 8 GB of ram ). The Adobe Flash plugin ( 64 bit Release Candidate ) works fine too.

    Regards and thanks a lot!

  • Gordon M
    October 8, 2009 | Permalink |

    I used the i386 RPM on RHEL 5, and when I try to run google-chrome, I get, “/opt/google/chrome/chrome: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.9′ not found (required by /opt/google/chrome/chrome)”

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