Install chrome on Linux
January 19th, 2010
Guys,
You wanna try out chrome ? Please follow these simple steps and you will have your chrome ready to take off..
You should login as root and execute the following steps
cd /usr/local/ wget http://sparksupport.com/downloads/chrome.tar.gz tar -zxf chrome.tar.gz rm -f chrome.tar.gz ln -s /usr/local/chrome/chrome-wrapper /usr/bin/chrome
Press Alt + F2, enter chrome. N’joy 
followed the procedure as tld by…but its nt working
For those of you that do not have the most pleasant times working in command line…
visit http://sparksupport.com/downloads/chrome.tar.gz in your browser
Download the file
Extract it to a folder
Copy the folder to /usr/lib
Now enter the folder and copy the bin file in to /usr/bin
Open it with a text editor
Change * in libdir=* to /usr/lib/(the folder’s name)
Save and Exit
You may notice the lack of an firefox icon, so you need to create it yourself:
1.) Type leafpad chrome.desktop
2.) Enter the following in the file:
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Chrome
Comment=Browse the Internet
Exec=Chrome
Type=Application
Categories=Application;Network;
3.) Save and exit leafpad.
4.) Type cp -a chrome.desktop /usr/share/applications