Fri, Jun 5 2009 | Published in Fedora & RedHat, GNOME & KDE, Techie, Ubuntu & Kubuntu, openSUSE & SUSE

Google Chrome Native Linux Client on openSUSE

By: ben.kevan

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Google Chrome has FINALLY been released (in Alpha stage developers form) to Linux.

Here’s the information:
http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel

You see they include a .deb format, and this can easily be installed on openSUSE by either extracting the contents of the data.tar.gz or converting it to rpm (which I have done and are provided below:

Google Chrome i386 Version
Google Chrome x86_64 Version

So here’s how you can install it:

Download the RPM above
Install using: (assuming you’re a normal user)

(for i386) sudo rpm -Uvh google-chrome-unstable-3.0.183.1-1.i386.rpm --nodeps
(for x86_64) sudo rpm -Uvh google-chrome-unstable-3.0.183.1-1.x86_64.rpm --nodeps


note that the -’s infront of nodeps is actually a DOUBLE dash, but wordpress combines them

Then you have to give the required libraries:
(note these are single liners, and include sudo as if you were logged in as a normal user)

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

Once you’re done you can launch chrome with
google-chrome

Here’s a nice screenshot for you:

Google Chrome

My personal experience has been limited with it, and since it’s developers super unstable alpha (possibly pre-alpha) status, I don’t think it’s fair to judge it.

But I recommend using it, reporting bugs and helping it develop to spice up competition in the browser arena (we all see what happens when someone gets to comfortable in the browser space, we get stuck with IE5 / 6 for a long while).

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20 Comments

  • Roger McMannus
    June 5, 2009 | Permalink |

    x84_64 duly requested though if it’s only me, don’t waste your time. You’ve put out enough nice, helpful little walkthroughs and the like that I can’t complain either way.

  • Dominik Grafenhofer
    June 6, 2009 | Permalink |

    First of all thanks for your effort!

    I guess the correct command to install the rpm package should be:

    rpm -Uvh –nodeps google-chrome-unstable-3.0.183.1-1.i386.rpm

    (Of course it would be great to have a 64bit package as well, although it is rather easy to do it oneself)

  • tom
    June 6, 2009 | Permalink |

    Thanks for the package!
    I still had to add:
    sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libssl3.so /usr/lib/libssl3.so.1d
    to make it run.

  • ben.kevan
    June 6, 2009 | Permalink |

    Dominik, yes it’s a double dash in front of nodeps, however wordpress formats them to a single dash (uggg).

    I have updated the post and added an x86_64 package..

  • ben.kevan
    June 6, 2009 | Permalink |

    @tom

    Tom, thank you.. not sure how I missed the libssl3.so sym link.. I’ve updated the post and added it, thanks for the heads up.

  • Dominik Grafenhofer
    June 6, 2009 | Permalink |

    @tom: Thanks again (also for the x86_64 package)! I was not aware of this “nice” wordpress feature ;)

  • Dominik Grafenhofer
    June 6, 2009 | Permalink |

    @Dominik Grafenhofer
    s/tom/ben/

  • ben.kevan
    June 6, 2009 | Permalink |

    @Dominik Grafenhofer

    %s/tom/ben/g :) haha..

  • MaoP
    June 6, 2009 | Permalink |

    Hi,

    Actually google chrome is a snapshot of the last most stable build of chromium svn, is better to use de chromium daily build, following the same procedure you can download .debs from:

    http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu

    And convert them with alien to rpm

    cheers

  • ben.kevan
    June 6, 2009 | Permalink |

    @MaoP

    Hi, although snapshots are a good idea, I’d rather build the packages as google puts them on “http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel” since mid day snapshots alot of times have breaks in them.

    If you’d like to point me to the correct single package for both i386 and x86_64 on the Ubuntu launch pad, I can build the snapshots rpm’s for the people willing to take that risk (although every test with Alpha products is a risk eh).

    Thank you for your contribution, and hope you can point me to the exact builds so I can do as you suggest.

  • euklidis
    June 9, 2009 | Permalink |

    /opt/google/chrome/chrome: error while loading shared libraries: libgconf-2.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

    i get this when i try to run it after the installation…

  • ben.kevan
    June 10, 2009 | Permalink |

    @euklidis

    What arch are you? x86_64? i386? can you do sudo zypper what-provides libgconf-2.so.4

  • nicolas
    June 11, 2009 | Permalink |

    i got an error after running
    rpm -Uvh google-chrome-unstable-3.0.183.1-1.x86_64.rpm –nodeps

    [root@nico-fedora Descargas]# rpm -Uvh –nodeps google-chrome-unstable-3.0.183.1-1.x86_64.rpm
    Preparando… ########################################### [100%]
    1:google-chrome-unstable ########################################### [100%]
    error: falló el desempaquetado de archivos : cpio: magia errónea???

    i don’t know what to do…

    thanks in advance..

  • ben.kevan
    June 12, 2009 | Permalink |

    @nicolas

    I’ll have to look into that.. I’ll try to find an x86_64 machine to test it against to see if I can duplicate.. can you try without scripts? to see if that makes any difference.

    Thanks.

  • ZK@Web Marketing Blog
    June 17, 2009 | Permalink |

    Well I will guess fail here, but then again no one has seen a Google commercial EVER so intrigue may win over quality and effectiveness. Especially the command at the end of the commercial to download Chrome now, LOL. If I wasnt internet savvy, I would not know what the hell they were talking about still. The lay person barely knows what a “browser” is when you ask them to open one. They just knowthe IE icon is how they get online.

  • MaoP
    June 29, 2009 | Permalink |

    @ben.kevan

    Hello, sorry for delay.

    About my previous comment, my point was that is better down Chromium since it has the last changes/features, Chrome is a snapshot from the last most stable Chromium commit with a sed “s/chromium/chrome” heh.

    About .deb packages:

    http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu/pool/main/c/chromium-browser/

    Now, i found there are better binaries, made by a “build bot” from Chromium.

    http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/snapshots/chromium-rel-linux/

    You just should do:

    cd ~/apps
    LAST=$(wget -qO- http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/snapshots/chromium-rel-linux/LATEST)
    wget http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/snapshots/chromium-rel-linux/$LAST/chrome-linux.zip
    unzip chrome-linux.zip

    then launch it

    $ ~/apps/chrome-linux/chrome

    Regards.

  • Piero
    July 13, 2009 | Permalink |

    Is chrome able to handle plugins (flash, etc)? Chromium isn’t until now.

  • ben.kevan
    July 14, 2009 | Permalink |

    Nope not in the latest build released.. Although I haven’t downloaded the latest snapshot and tested that.. (I like waiting for the releases and not the daily snapshots).

    I’ll def report on that when it does. And Chromium flash is very limited, I am only getting sound.

  • LnddMiles
    July 21, 2009 | Permalink |

    Pretty cool post. I just stumbled upon your blog and wanted to say
    that I have really liked reading your blog posts. Anyway
    I’ll be subscribing to your blog and I hope you post again soon!

  • Bob Harvey
    October 4, 2009 | Permalink |

    @MaoP
    Thanks for that, Mao – combined with the symlinks described above that has got me going without fuss. It said it was going to import the firefox bookmarks and passwords, but choked on the passwords. I have to get the real plugin working too, for the bbc iplayer, but so far so excellent.

    Thanks again

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