Google Chrome on Ubuntu

So Google released the beta version of a new open source browser: Google Chrome. But it's only available for Windows at the moment. So here's a guide to install Google Chrome on Ubuntu using Wine. Thanks to myscienceisbetter.com for the tutorial.

Full guide here

1. Install wine (follow the official instructions http://www.winehq.org/site/download-deb)

2. make sure wine 1.1.3 is installed by entering the following in the terminal

wine --version

3. Download the Chrome installer

wget http://gpdl.google.com/chrome/install/149.27/chrome_installer.exe

4. Install Chrome

wine chrome_installer.exe

5. Open the Google Chrome.desktop icon, which was created on your Desktop, with any editor you like. Make sure you add "--new-http --in-process-plugins", without the quotes at the end of this line:

Exec=env WINEPREFIX="/home/yourusername/.wine" wine "C:\\windows\\profiles\\yourusername\\Local Settings\\Application Data\\Google\\Chrome\\Application\\chrome.exe"

to make it look like this:

Exec=env WINEPREFIX="/home/yourusername/.wine" wine "C:\\windows\\profiles\\yourusername\\Local Settings\\Application Data\\Google\\Chrome\\Application\\chrome.exe" --new-http --in-process-plugins

6. Save the file!

7. Go to your desktop and start Google Chrome

Full guide here



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