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Install Google chrome for Linux - Using Wine

Submitted by Chetan on Friday, 5 September 20085 Comments

Google had opened up chrome for Windows XP and Vista, and the Mac, Linux users are just waiting for the release of Google chrome for their Operating systems. But alternatively, not given by Google but a normal user of Linux.. is a way to install and use Google chrome for Linux.

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/winetricks
sudo cp winetricks /usr/sbin

4. Install some dependencies for Chrome like Flash player etc. which would be needed with latest version if you want to open sites like Youtube.
winetricks riched20 riched30 flash

4.1 Install allfonts - This is not required but better if you download.
winetricks allfonts

5. Download the Chrome installer
wget Click to download

6. Install Chrome by following the given instructions in the chrome installer during the installation process.
wine chrome_installer.exe

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 open with your favorite editor the Google Chrome. The google chrome icon just comes 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\\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe”

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

Save the file and you are done.

8. Go to desktop and start Google Chrome

(Note: This is a re-written version of an article by Romeo, Thanks to him.)

5 Comments »

  • DoesWhat said:

    “Google had opened up chrome for Windows XP and Vista and the Mac”

    Google are still yet to release a version for Mac. Parallels or VMware is a good temporary fix for that.

    http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en-GB/mac.html

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  • Chetan (author) said:

    @DoesWhat,

    Yep i know and have posted about it already. I wrote it in a confusing way.. Now hope its clear.

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  • Dan Kegel said:

    We’re trying to collect all info about running Google Chrome on Wine in the appdb; see http://wiki.winehq.org/Chrome

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  • James645 said:

    The original article wasn’t by Romeo. He copied it from http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=908493 . After my complaints on Digg.com, he added a link to ubuntuforums

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  • sean said:

    I don’t think i would bother going to the trouble of installing it with wine. why bother for a simple web browser?

    I’m running windows but i’m still using firefox for now.

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