Google Chrome Beta v5.0.307.11 :: Mandriva 2010
Google Buzz is still in it’s early phase and so the user experience leaves a few annoyances to be dealt with. A useful extension has been written by Jeremy Chone for the Google Chrome Browser . You are advised to follow Jeremy Chone for updates about the extension. As of today, the link provided at the end of this post, has been tested and works fine.
To use the extension, you will need the very latest version of Chrome. The version in Contrib doesn’t allow extensions yet. So here’s how you should go about that:
Download the binary file.
Select the rpm version for Fedora/OpenSuse
Use Mandriva’s Sotware Installer (either Open it and Install in one step, or save it first then open it with the Installer). Install all dependencies and accept the package as “trusted” (without a signature).
Now for the fun part. Chrome won’t run. Mandriva 2010 has libbz2.so.1.0 and Chrome is searching for libbz2.so.1.0.0
Solution:
Open a terminal
type this into the terminal
su
[enter]
your root password
[enter]
cd /
[enter]
create a symbolic link to the absent lib.so like this
For 32-bit systems
ln -s /usr/lib/libbz2.so.1.0.0 /usr/lib/libbz2.so.1.0
[enter]
exit
[enter]
exit
[enter]
For 64-bit system, the line is like this
ln -s /usr/lib64/libbz2.so.1.0.0 /usr/lib64/libbz2.so.1.0
Don’t forget to “exit” [enter] “exit” [enter]
Find Google Chrome Browser from your starting Menu
Applications/Internet/More/Google Chrome
Get the extension by Jeremy Chone here:
The Chrome Google Buzz Extension affectionately known as ZBuzzR
Thank you Mr Chone, for a great piece of work. Now we can enjoy Buzzing just a little bit more.
Outcast, 
Mike, and 8 others are discussing. 
evenorbert 7:48 pm on February 28, 2010 Permalink |
Do you mind if I translate this how-to for the Hungarian Mandriva Linux forum?
(btw. I’m writing this in Chrome, thanks!)
tanclo 3:35 pm on March 3, 2010 Permalink |
I’d be happy if you did that, evenorbert. I’d like to see your translation and link your work to this blog as a reference link for future readers.
Drew 8:23 pm on March 20, 2010 Permalink |
Thanks…. I had been trying to install the ‘missing’ bits!
David McHugh 3:30 am on March 23, 2010 Permalink |
Big help! Thanks.
vikas khemka 11:24 pm on March 24, 2010 Permalink |
I tried all the stuffs written by u …I have installed google chrome but as soon as i open it it just vanish from taskbar ,I am using mandriva 2010 and not able to get through the problem ,hopong to get the solution as earliest
tanclo 12:58 am on March 28, 2010 Permalink |
Sorry to hear about that, Vikas. Can you run it in terminal and see what happens? Open terminal and enter google-chrome. Please also check that you have not mistyped one of the commands to create the symbolic link. Please come back and report your progress.
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syauqy 10:09 am on March 29, 2010 Permalink |
thank you for visiting and for the tip’s & tricks. sorry my bad english, thanks again.
John 7:34 am on April 10, 2010 Permalink |
If your getting a libjpeg.so.62 error do the follow.
ln -s /usr/lib64/libjpeg.so.7 /usr/lib64/libjpeg.so.62 Don’t know if this is officially correct but it works.
brits 3:04 pm on April 13, 2010 Permalink |
thankyou very much!
now I can run Chrome in Mandriva 2010 but it’s appear error “Aw, Snaps!” in almost web pages I opened even the open tab
and when I run it from terminal, it’s appear 2 lines like this:
#./chrome: /usr/lib/libz.so.1: no version information available (required by ./chrome)
#./chrome: /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0: no version information available (required by ./chrome)
how can I fix this?
Mike 5:10 am on April 26, 2010 Permalink |
Thank you so much. I was just trying to figure this out.
Outcast 9:10 pm on May 1, 2010 Permalink |
Thanks! This got me up and running with the Google Chrome Beta on Mandriva 2010 Xfce Community edition. Prior to your fix, Chrome installed from the downloaded Fedora/Suse rpm, but failed to launch.
tanclo 6:08 pm on May 13, 2010 Permalink |
@brits.. I have just installed the Mandriva 2010.1 Alpha 3 .. none of the errors that appear on the 2010.0 appear .. not even the one I wrote about in this post. Perhaps you can try upgrading. I might add, the 2010.1 is pretty stable. Just get the cooker media. I will leave some help on my Post Install Instructions to help you add media. The MIB repos are not ready, of course. But MDV and PLF are fine.