Google chrome on Mandriva Linux
June 6, 2009
Was just playing with Google Chrome for Linux on my Mandriva installation.
In a few words – it rocks! There are still a lot of issues and non-implemented features, but even not it is:
- extremely fast
- surprisingly stable
- opens most of my favorite sites without any problems
It works pretty fine on Mandriva 2009.1/cooker, the only necessary thing is to setup the right links in /usr/lib for its libraries. But after that, it just works. I just miss the firefox extensions, like adblock, mouse gestures, stylish, twitter and delicious.com integration, but.. one cannot had it all 
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Looks like you are running Xfce
I was about to import chromium to the svn, but i realized that the project is far from reaching mature status. Anyways it fails at compiling almost on begining :/
Yep, I am using XFCE since around 3.0
. From time to time I try switching to something else, but until now I found nothing that is as light, flexible and powerful as XFCE. By some unknown reason the 4.6 version takes an incredible amount of time to start from time to time, but I solved it by adding ‘rm -rf $HOME/.cache/sessions’ to my .xsession file. And there is http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4875 bug which I found a workaround for. Besides those points, I have absolutely nothing to complain about it!
I tried compiling chromium too, but it requires around 10GB of disk space to compile everything.. and takes an eternity. I could not finish the compilation as I run our of free disk space (and of patience
).
But the binaries from google worked fine for me, and they are updated daily. The only issue I had was with their strange libraries the chrome binary is linked against – libnspr4.so.0d, libplc4.so.0d, libplds4.so.0d, libssl3.so.1d, libsmime3.so.1d, libnssutil3.so.1d and libnss3.so.1d. Symlinking them agains Mandriva’s libraries did the trick.
Is there a Cooker rpm for Chromium somewhere? Did I overlook it?
Could you please give us a rough idea of how you got chrome to run on mandriva? If possible, a walkthrough?
Sure; I created (and try to keep it up-to-date) chrome rpm for mandriva. This is described here: http://dodonov.net/blog/2009/08/31/chrome-rpm/
I must say I am very impressed with google chrome and chromium. I am using it daily for a few months now.