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I tried and liked google chrome for a few months until I got tired |
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of the multi-hour compile every week or so. The chrome-binary ebuild |
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was removed a while ago, I'm guessing because of library version |
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conflicts, but I dunno for sure. |
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Anyway, I wanted to try a recent version of chrome without spending |
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all day compiling it on this dusty old x86 machine, so I improvised |
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this easy workaround: |
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First, you need x11-libs/libXScrnSaver and app-arch/rpm2targz already |
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installed. |
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Next, download the appropriate rpm package from www.google/chrome. |
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#cd /tmp (or whatever staging area you prefer, but do it as root) |
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#rpmunpack /path/to/your/downloaded/google-chrome-whatever.rpm |
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#mv google-whatever/opt/google /opt (the actual chrome binaries) |
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(Note: you don't need the etc or usr/bin parts of the archive, so |
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delete the whole /tmp/google-whatever directory now.) |
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Make the symlink |
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/usr/bin/google-chrome -> /opt/google/chrome/google-chrome |
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When you run google-chrome you will likely see an error for missing |
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libpng12.so.0, which gentoo has replaced with more recent versions |
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like libpng14 or libpng15. |
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If you see that error, here is a very quick and easy fix: |
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#ebuild /usr/portage/media-libs/libpng/libpng-1.2.46.ebuild compile |
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That step will build (but not install) libpng12, so you won't disturb |
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any of your existing packages. The newly built library you need is |
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now waiting for you here: |
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/var/tmp/portage/media-libs/libpng-1.2.46/work/libpng-1.2.46/.libs/ |
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Now copy libpng12.so.0.46.0 to /opt/google/chrome and rename it (or |
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symlink it) to libpng12.so.0, because that is what chrome looks for. |
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Complain here if you have problems :) |
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