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Running Google Chrome under WINE

8 September 2008
Written by: admin Posted under Hacks

Many Wine users are wonder why can’t they install and run Chrome browser under Wine environment… Here is a simple manual on how to run Chrome under Wine:

/tested under Ubuntu 8.04.1 distribution/

1) # wget www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks
# sudo cp winetricks /usr/sbin

# sudo chmod +x /usr/sbin/winetricks

actually, flash is optional but i guess you’ll add this option as well ;)

(you may need to install cabextract package after this)

2)
# winetricks riched20 riched30 flash

installing some fonts
# winetricks allfonts

3)
getting installation copy of Chrome (be sure to download the latest one)
# wget gpdl.google.com/chrome/install/149.27/chrome_installer.exe

4)
run it under wine

# wine chrome_installer.exe

after installing you should get .desktop file at your desktop for running the application. Be sure to append “–new-http –in-process-plugins” to it’s run-command.

Here is a sample of a string you can get
env WINEPREFIX=«/home/userdir/.wine» wine «C:\windows\profiles\userdir\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe» –new-http –in-process-plugins

Now start it and enjoy ;)

ps: if this doesn’t help - be sure to update your Wine version to 1.1.3 or higher.


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