June 30, 2009

Quickly testing Google Chrome binary on openSUSE

Get the deb package from the developer release site.

Unpack the deb:

ar x google-chrome-unstable_current_i386.deb 
lzma -d data.tar.lzma 
tar xpvf data.tar

Now you got a opt directory in the current directory with the full tree. Go to the Chrome directory.

cd opt/google/chrome

Symlink the libraries:

ln -s /usr/lib/libnss3.so ./libnss3.so.1d
ln -s /usr/lib/libnssutil3.so ./libnssutil3.so.1d
ln -s /usr/lib/libsmime3.so ./libsmime3.so.1d
ln -s /usr/lib/libssl3.so ./libssl3.so.1d
ln -s /usr/lib/libplds4.so ./libplds4.so.0d
ln -s /usr/lib/libplc4.so ./libplc4.so.0d
ln -s /usr/lib/libnspr4.so ./libnspr4.so.0d

Run it and enjoy!. Be sure to read about privacy features of this preview release.

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$PWD ./google-chrome

Comments (3)

  1. June 30, 2009
    Your Home For Google Chome! » Blog Archive » Duncan Mac-Vicar P. · Quickly testing Google Chrome binary on openSUSE said...

    [...] Original post:  Duncan Mac-Vicar P. · Quickly testing Google Chrome binary on openSUSE [...]

  2. June 30, 2009
    initialZero said...

    Is there something wrong with alien?

    $ alien

    The program ‘alien’ can be found in the following package: * alien [ path: /usr/bin/alien, repository: zypp (repo-oss) ]

    Try installing with: sudo zypper install alien

    $ alien -r google-chrome-unstablecurrenti386.deb

    $ sudo zypper in google-chrome*rpm

  3. July 11, 2009
    Novell News Summary - Part I: OpenFate, Build Service, and Many Events | Boycott Novell said...

    [...] post about Mozilla news in OpenSUSE and the writings about another browser, Chrome, being built and tested on OpenSUSE. MySQL 5.4 is coming too and LenZ Grimmer writes about FlightGear 1.9.1. Novell’s [...]

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