My Science Is Better » google chrome http://www.myscienceisbetter.info Sun, 18 Dec 2011 22:26:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Google Chrome for Linux and Mac with CrossOver Chromium http://www.myscienceisbetter.info/google-chrome-for-linux-and-mac-with-crossover-chromium.html http://www.myscienceisbetter.info/google-chrome-for-linux-and-mac-with-crossover-chromium.html#comments Tue, 16 Sep 2008 23:17:00 +0000 Romeo Adrian Cioaba http://blog.myscienceisbetter.info/?p=15 Two weeks ago i have posted a tutorial on how to make Google Chrome run on Linux using wine. That gave Linux users the option to test the browser without having to go to a Windows machine, but it was not perfect as it lacked HTTPS support.

CrossOver packaged for both Linux and Mac the browser and it supports HTTPS. Check it out at: http://www.codeweavers.com/services/ports/chromium/

Note that this package does NOT play flash files. In order to get flash pages to play you just have to go to http://www.adobe.com and install the flash player as if you were running windows.

]]> http://www.myscienceisbetter.info/google-chrome-for-linux-and-mac-with-crossover-chromium.html/feed 1 Install Google Chrome on Linux using wine http://www.myscienceisbetter.info/install-google-chrome-on-linux-using-wine.html http://www.myscienceisbetter.info/install-google-chrome-on-linux-using-wine.html#comments Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:09:00 +0000 Romeo Adrian Cioaba http://blog.myscienceisbetter.info/?p=14 Google launched a few days ago a new web browser, that has some interesting features which might give FF 3, Safari and IE8 a run for their money. Although not yet for Linux, i've put together (following some ubuntuforms posts) a detailed tutorial to help you Install Google Chrome on Linux using wine >= 1.1.3.

1. install wine (follow the official instructions http://www.winehq.org/site/download-deb)

2. make sure wine >= 1.1.3 is installed by entering the following in the terminal
wine --version

3. Download winetricks and install it
wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetrickssudo cp winetricks /usr/sbin

4. Install some dependencies for Chrome (Flash is not mandatory but will allow you to play youtube videos :-) )winetricks riched20 riched30 flash
4.1 Install allfonts (this is optional)
winetricks allfonts

5. Download the Chrome installer
wget http://gpdl.google.com/chrome/install/149.27/chrome_installer.exe

6. Install Chrome (just follow the onscreen instructions and make sure you create a desktop icon)
wine chrome_installer.exe
google-chrome-linux-1.png

7. After the install is finished, you won't be able to use Chrome as it needs a bit more hacking. Just close it and opent with your favorite editor the Google Chrome.desktop icon created on your Desktop. Make sure your add "--new-http --in-process-plugins", without the quotes at the end of this line:

Exec=env WINEPREFIX="/home/mimir/.wine" wine "C:\windows\profiles\mimir\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe"

to make it look like this:
Exec=env WINEPREFIX="/home/mimir/.wine" wine "C:\windows\profiles\mimir\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --new-http --in-process-plugins

Save the file!

NOTE: mimir is my username, you will have something like /home/yourusername/.wine

8. Go to desktop and start Google Chrome

google-chrome-linux-2.png

Checking some youtube videos :)

google-chrome-linux-flash.png

HTTPS Note: it seems that the https is not working due to the fact that wine is missing TSL/SSL features, the dlls that should handle that being just stubs at the moment. If you have any information regarding this, please share.

Resources:
Wine appdb page for Chrome
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=908493
Install Google Chrome On Mac OS X using wine

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