Comments on: Google Chrome natively running on Gentoo Linux

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:15:10 +0000

This required a little extra work on my system as my libraries are apparently newer but I got it going. Also, you have an error in your posting:

sudo ln -s /google/chrome/chrome /usr/bin/

This should read /opt/chrome/chrome if keeping with the rest of your post.

By: chrome-sandbox

chrome-sandbox — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 08:27:19 +0000

Anyone solved chrome-sandbox problem?

By: Krellan

Krellan — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 12:53:00 +0000

Thanks! I got this to work on my recent installation of Gentoo, 64-bit, with the following changes:

1) In the URL for downloading, before clicking “Accept”, edit the URL in the browser address bar and change “i386″ to “amd64″. Hit Enter to reload it. Now, you will be downloading the 64-bit version.

2) Google and Debian now use lzma for compression (similar to bzip2 and gzip). Extract it with this command, instead:

lzma -cd data.tar.lzma | tar xvf -

The tar command doesn't yet have built-in lzma support, so we do it manually in a pipeline. If you don't have the lzma program yet, emerge lzma-utils.

3) For the nspr libraries, Gentoo now has them as .so.8 instead of .so.7, so change the commands accordingly. You'll also need “sudo” in front of these, as well.

Tried running it, and it gave me an error about the “chrome-sandbox” program not being mode 4755. I did “sudo chmod 4755 chrome-sandbox” and it seemed to work OK after that. It's kind of scary that Google would want to put a setuid root program on your system. What are they doing with it? A Web browser shouldn't need to run as root!

I'm posting this from Google Chrome running on 64-bit Gentoo

Josh

By: Haripriya S

Haripriya S — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:04:57 +0000

Hey,
Thank you sooo much . Very useful stuff

By: Haripriya S

Haripriya S — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:04:57 +0000

Hey,
Thank you sooo much . Very useful stuff

By: Clean /usr/lib

Clean /usr/lib — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 20:58:58 +0000

If you dont want to pollute your /usr/lib you can write a simple wrapper. I keep symbolic links to libraries under /opt/google/chrome/ldpreload and use this to start chrome:

#!/bin/sh

LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/opt/google/chrome/ldpreload"
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH

/opt/google/chrome/chrome

By: Andrea Olivato

Andrea Olivato — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:21:08 +0000

Thanks a lot for sharing!

By: Fire Crow

Fire Crow — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:54:45 +0000

super cool. many thanks

a few of my libs were different, just minor stuff using 8 instead of 7
ln -s /usr/lib/nspr/libplds4.so.8 /usr/lib/libplds4.so.0d
ln -s /usr/lib/nspr/libplc4.so.8 /usr/lib/libplc4.so.0d
ln -s /usr/lib/nspr/libnspr4.so.8 /usr/lib/libnspr4.so.0d

this totall rocks thanks

By: guttersnipe's weblog » Blog Archive » Google Chrome in 64-bit Sabayon Linux

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:20:35 +0000

[...] googled for gentoo-specific chrome install guides, and I ran across this guide for installing Google Chromium on an x86 Gentoo Linux [...]

By: Gentoo, Google Chrome i YouTube « Moriturius’s Devlog

Gentoo, Google Chrome i YouTube « Moriturius’s Devlog — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 08:37:25 +0000

[...] Z pomocą przyszli niezawodni internauci, którzy mieli podobne zachcianki. Jeden z nich opisał proces instalacji przeglądarki z paczki DEB w systemie Gentoo na swoim blogu: http://blog.andreaolivato.net/open-source/google-chrome-natively-running-on-gentoo-linux.html. [...]