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google-chrome
According to Google, the chrome browser is a web browser built for speed, simplicity, and security. Note that this package has little to do with chromium as this is a pre-compiled package by Google, instead of a package that a user can compile locally from the open-source project.
The google-chrome package is created with a SlackBuild script created by Patrick Volkerding that converts a Debian package to something that Slackware can use.
Installation
Installing google-chrome consists of downloading the current Debian package from Google's site.
Before installing google-chrome please make sure you install all the packages in the “/extra/google-chrome/” folder. The number of packages and their versions might change if you are using the current branch or 13.x branches, but you need to make sure that GConf, ORBit and google-chrome-pam-solibs are all installed:
darkstar~# ls -l /var/log/packages/ | grep -i "google-chrome-pam-solibs\|gconf\|orbit" -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12345 Jul 1 09:09 GConf-X.Y.Z-ARCH-N -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5678 Jul 1 09:09 ORBit2-X.Y.Z-ARCH-N -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1000 Jul 1 09:09 google-chrome-pam-solibs-X.Y.Z-ARCH-N
After this step please download the debian (.deb) package from this link and select either the 32 bit or 64 bit version, depending on your system.
Once downloaded, download to the same folder the SlackBuild, located in “<mirror>/extra/google-chrome/google-chrome.SlackBuild”, make sure that is is executable and run it:
darkstar:/downloads/# chmod +x google-chrome.SlackBuild darkstar:/downloads/# ls -l -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23456789 Jul 1 09:09 google-chrome-stable_current_ARCH.deb -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3876 Jul 1 09:09 google-chrome.SlackBuild darkstar:/downloads/# ./google-chrome.SlackBuild
Once the package is done, it can be installed normally with installpkg.
If you want slackpkg to ignore this program on clean-system, please add chrome to /etc/slackpkg/blacklist
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External Links
Download link: https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/browser
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