I was able to add Google’s repository to my sources in OpenSUSE 12.1 (64bit) by doing the following (i am using a very minimal install of SUSE using X & OpenBox) –

1. Download Google’s public key, & either use YaST or the commandline to install it -

user@computer:~$ wget https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub

Then (in the same directory that you downloaded the key), using the command line (RPM) again i did –

root@computer:/# rpm –import linux_signing_key.pub

2. Now you can add the repository through the GUI in YaST or on the command line again. Here’s what i did –

root@computer:/# zypper ar http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/x86_64

Hope this helps. Happy hacking.

website:
http://cairographics.org/releases/

The 1.6.0 version of Cairo:
http://cairographics.org/releases/cairo-1.6.0.tar.gz

As root, do these commands:
tar xvfz cairo-1.6.0.tar.gz
cd cairo-1.6.0
./configure
make install

This will put the 1.6 version of Cairo into your /usr/local/lib directory where it should not conflict with the existing, older Cairo in /usr/lib.

These steps caused google-chrome to work perfectly for me.

Good luck!
Terry

I’m trying to install google-chrome on openSUSE 11.0

When I run google-chrome I get this message and it does not open. If you do a first time run it ask you the default questions and import stuff and then exits.

—output—
opt> google-chrome
/usr/bin/google-chrome: /opt/google/chrome/libz.so.1: no version information available (required by /usr/bin/google-chrome)
/opt/google/chrome/chrome: /opt/google/chrome/libz.so.1: no version information available (required by /opt/google/chrome/chrome)
[11152:11152:61021937243:ERROR:chrome/browser/pref_service.cc(171)] Error reading Preferences: File doesn’t exist. /root/.config/google-chrome/Local State: No such file or directory
[11152:11152:61021942361:ERROR:chrome/browser/pref_service.cc(171)] Error reading Preferences: File doesn’t exist. /root/.config/google-chrome/Default/Preferences: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/google-chrome: symbol lookup error: /usr/bin/google-chrome: undefined symbol: cairo_format_stride_for_width
—output—

libz.so.1 is installed. I created a link to the lib in the google-chrome install directory but with no effect.

I have cairo 1.4.14-32.1 installed. When I upgraded to cairo-1.8.10-103.1.i586.rpm the error persisted. However, this also broke acroread, firefox and openoffice.org 3 as they are all dependent on cairo 1.4… I reverted back to the ‘older’ cairo and now acroread & firefox works but openoffice.org, keeps on crashing.

I also copies the ‘Local State’ & ‘Preferences’ files from a Windows install. Those two error lines then disappeared.

The output now looks like this.
—output—
opt> google-chrome
/usr/bin/google-chrome: /opt/google/chrome/libz.so.1: no version information available (required by /usr/bin/google-chrome)
/opt/google/chrome/chrome: /opt/google/chrome/libz.so.1: no version information available (required by /opt/google/chrome/chrome)
/usr/bin/google-chrome: symbol lookup error: /usr/bin/google-chrome: undefined symbol: cairo_format_stride_for_width
—output—

Do you have any suggestions?

I do not indicate either since the installation string I have given:

sudo zypper ar http://dl.google.com/linux/rpm/stable/`uname -i` google-chrome

uses `uname -i` instead of explicitly using i386 or x86-64. So the above string is universal for both architectures.

Thank you

you can find libcario with rpm -qa | grep cario

Thank you.

/usr/bin/google-chrome: symbol lookup error: /usr/bin/google-chrome: undefined symbol: cairo_format_stride_for_width

My system is openSUSE 11.0 x86_64.

You could also install it by double clicking the rpm in your file manager. As you would in Ubuntu.

Double clicking the icon would basically lauch the yast2 sw_single window for installation )

That worked a treat. I have just moved over to OpenSuse from Ubuntu, so I am used to everything (almost) installing at a click of a button, where as now nothing installs without the need for tampering, but I love the challenge