Use Google Chrome under Linux with WINE

Yesterday I had not even tried to install the windows version of Google Chrome under my Kubuntu .. I had no time and I was too anxious to see him at work. Fortunately someone has done for me ( My Science Blog is better ). I report briefly the steps, so too David T. `will be able to enjoy this new jewel of the house Google.

Install wine (instructions on the official website ) version> = 1.1.3

ca. If you have already installed wine, make sure the version is corrected by a wine-version from konsole.
Download and install winetricks: wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks sudo cp winetricks /usr/sbin
Install some external components that will make life easier (Flash is not obligatory but highly recommended)
winetricks riched20 riched30 flash
Install allfonts (also optional but recommended)
winetricks allfonts
Download Google Chrome for Windows
wget http://gpdl.google.com/chrome/install/149.27/chrome_installer.exe
Chrome Wine install following the instructions on screen and make sure you create a desktop icon
wine chrome_installer.exe
After installation is still a few hacks to make it work: close it and open with a text editor (eg kate) Google Chrome.desktop file that has been created by the installer and add
--new-http --in-process-plugins
end of line
Exec=env WINEPREFIX="/home/NOME_UTENTE/.wine" wine "C:\\windows\\profiles\\NOME_UTENTE\\Local Settings\\Application Data\\Google\\Chrome\\Application\\chrome.exe"
so that it is something like:
Exec=env WINEPREFIX="/home/NOME_UTENTE/.wine" wine "C:\\windows\\profiles\\NOME_UTENTE\\Local Settings\\Application Data\\Google\\Chrome\\Application\\chrome.exe" --new-http --in-process-plugins NOTE: USER_NAME `will be your user name is under linux under wine.
Save the file and launch Chrome by using the icon on the desktop.

A bit of hack and the new browser will be there to replace the old `Konqueror

Tags: chorme , google , linux , Ubuntu
Categories: Programs , linux
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13 Responses to "Use Google Chrome under Linux with WINE"

David T. wrote a comment on September 4, 2008

Thanks for the thought But I could not install it anyway Vabè, we hope that Google think we pinguinari to you soon!

ilnissardo wrote a comment on September 5, 2008

Strange! I have not had major problems installing it on Kubuntu following procedure ...
The only thing is that I had a wine server specified as Windows 2000. Changing it to WinXP everything worked well.

What problem you from?

ilnissardo wrote a comment on September 5, 2008

I used it a bit this morning in kubuntu .. not say the same thing on Windows. Much less stable and a bit more slowly. However usable to play a bit.

David T. wrote a comment on September 5, 2008

But in fact those that run Windows software with Wine not convinced me from ever too. For the rest I have the Gnome desktop, I found a guide but to no avail. We await the official version for Linux!

ilnissardo wrote a comment on September 5, 2008

That both GNOME and KDE do not change anything. Wine is independent from the two and is configured the same way.

But I am a great fan of Wine is that its various commercial exceptions, if there were it would be impossible to use Linux in the office because I depend on Microsoft Outlook.

Sleeping wrote a comment on September 6, 2008

I too am trying Chrome, Firefox 3.1 with Alpha 2 = D ... I like to experiment
But I'd like to understand what prevents him from running on Windows 2000. So far almost the only non-Microsoft software to require XP and run the 2000 (excluding perhaps some security software that must integrate much with the OS). And by the way also seems to require SP2 or higher. Dunno ...
@ David: you set Wine to behave like XP and not 2000 which I think is the set of her?
Hello hello

Sleeping wrote a comment on September 6, 2008

I forgot to say that the board set as XP Wine had already given Andrew, but perhaps he had escaped to David ... I do not go as my bag of flour, when it is not = D

ilnissardo wrote a comment on September 8, 2008

Great Sleeping!

See I do not think Chrome is the only one not run on Win2000 and run on XP. I remember several other programs that require WinXP SP2 nisba otherwise.

You're trying Firefox 3.1 on Windows or Linux?

Chrome on Linux you have tried?

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Sleeping wrote a comment on September 12, 2008

Thanks for your reply, Andrew!
In fact I looked on the page of Chrome in English and it requires not just XP, but it needs SP2
http://www.google.com/chrome?hl=en ...
XP probably the "original" without SP is very similar and therefore are also applications that run on Windows 2000, while those for some reason necessarily require SP2 (firewall I noticed in particular) should not be much different being on Win2000 ... I hope I have said some bullshit = D

However Firefox 3.1 I'm trying on a normal XP Pro SP3. I noticed that many of the extensions I use are not currently compatible with this version and frankly I'm very sorry. I understand the 3.0 that was objectively quite different compared to 2 and so it was understandable that almost all extensions require an update that more often than I think it involved a quick compatibility check with firefox3 from the developer and change the parameter maxversion installation. rdf and only a few cases I think real change ... but it seems impossible that this mess (because objectively for little accustomed to these things is) of having to comb through the forum or wait centuries addons.mozilla being upgraded or even change the install by hand. rdf should repeat again with Firefox 3.1, which really is not much different from 3. Possible that extension developers do not think Ru Paul?! What do you think?
Sorry, as usual I was prolix

Sleeping wrote a comment on September 12, 2008

Now known that in addition to being verbose, I did not even reply at all = D
So I'm trying Chrome on XP perfectly normal before (on Linux I've never tried) and I'm sorry, but after everything I read about privacy, such that it behaves almost like a keylogger, so the I'm a little 'aside. Then when I found out Prism for Firefox (I think from your blog ) No longer even use it for applications

luca wrote a comment on September 13, 2008

The native version of Chrome for Linux seems to be far from ready for use. Look at this:
http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php/id; 1913014503; fp; 16; fpid; 1

ilnissardo wrote a comment on September 15, 2008

@ Luca: thanks for the link, very bad news .. is good that you reported me because I had put in the `things to do this week to try Chromium for Linux .. I give up reading this ...

@ Sleeping: the problem of compatibility of Firefox extensions I've got already had with the 3.0 passagigo Some extensions that I used every day have never been updated to support 3.0. I believe that before moving to 3.1 will wait a while, at least to be sure that all the (few) extensions that I use to work now.
Ultimately, the 3.0 is very stable under Linux, and does not take any more memory of the world to see four pages static.

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