Chrome browser

[NimbusII]

Hi all.... Been a while since I posted on this forum.....Distro hopping over the last few years.... Happy new year all. I have tried chromium and the other version in synaptic(forget what its called) but would prefer original chrome to both... I realize that installing out of the repos is frowned upon but sometimes is the only option... Please can someone advise on how to install an .rpm from outside.... I have chosen to use synaptic but it does not have the option to choose the .rpm file...
I have also searched the repos but not sure what app is best to install...

any advice much appreciated....

cheers

Heath

Previous installs: Kubuntu, Ubuntu, LinuxMint, Suse, Bodhi, Debian, Deepin 

[Linuzoid]

You'll have to install in a terminal. Open a terminal, enter su and when prompt enter your root password, change directory to where the rpm is and issue this command rpm -Uvh xxxxx.rpm, where as xxx is the name of the rpm. Use at your own risk. If your using Dolphin you can navigate to where the rpm is and press F4 key, and this will open a terminal, than issue the su command and proceed with the rpm command.

[Neal ManBear]

NimbusII,     
Chromium-browser is the open source browser from which chrome is built and not the other way around. What chromium-browser is, chrome will be.     

[Archie]

Google got users brainwashed. Google should be grateful to Chromium or they won't have Google Chrome.

[NimbusII]

NimbusII,     
Chromium-browser is the open source browser from which chrome is built and not the other way around. What chromium-browser is, chrome will be.     

Yes I know...On 2 other distros I have had installed chrome worked when chromium didnt....

[NimbusII]

Google got users brainwashed. Google should be grateful to Chromium or they won't have Google Chrome.

Not all users.....If it works i`ll use it....thanks

[Archie]

Chromium-browser works. It's what I have been using for as long as I can remember. Your problem maybe due to the same config folder that Chromium-browser and Iron used when you installed them.

Look into ~/.config and delete the chromium folder and try and install chromium-browser again.

[menotu]

Additionally, the rpm may be built for another Distro(s).

Looking at the following link there doesn't appear to be a great deal of difference and where there is it's minimal and/or they can be "turned on" or may not apply to the PCLinuxOS "build".

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/ChromiumBrowserVsGoogleChrome

[Linuzoid]

Additionally, the rpm may be built for another Distro(s).

Looking at the following link there doesn't appear to be a great deal of difference and where there is it's minimal and/or they can be "turned on" or may not apply to the PCLinuxOS "build".

Yea, and the dependencies might be different.

[menotu]

Additionally, the rpm may be built for another Distro(s).

Looking at the following link there doesn't appear to be a great deal of difference and where there is it's minimal and/or they can be "turned on" or may not apply to the PCLinuxOS "build".

Yea, and the dependencies might be different.

Precisely

[Bald Brick]

NimbusII,    
Chromium-browser is the open source browser from which chrome is built and not the other way around. What chromium-browser is, chrome will be.    

Yes I know...On 2 other distros I have had installed chrome worked when chromium didnt....

Did you try the same versions of both? Did you remove the configuration files for chrome before you installed chromium?

To quote myself:

The main difference between Chromium and Google Chrome is their logos. They are almost identical but the Chrome one is more colourful. They both used to look three-dimensional but now they've both been flattened out a bit.

This web page lists all the differences, but as Texstar has added the pdf library from Chrome to Chromium the logo remains the only important one. (Google tells us that one fundamental difference between Chrome and Chromium is that new releases of Chrome "are tested before sending to users". But so is everything including Chromium before it gets into the PCLinuxOS repository.)

[Ron Ritzman]

You'll have to install in a terminal. Open a terminal, enter su and when prompt enter your root password, change directory to where the rpm is and issue this command rpm -Uvh xxxxx.rpm, where as xxx is the name of the rpm. Use at your own risk. If your using Dolphin you can navigate to where the rpm is and press F4 key, and this will open a terminal, than issue the su command and proceed with the rpm command.

After looking through the rpm to make sure that it isn't overwriting anything, I decided to throw caution to the winds and try this. Starting the browser throws up these errors but still appears to work.

[Neal ManBear]

Something to be remembered:     
It is advised that you not install from outside sources. If you do anyway, you have made your system a non-standard install, in other words, unsupported. You must be your own support.     

[malspa]

I installed Google Chrome Beta in PCLOS. I installed lsb and then used the following command:

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# rpm -Uvh google-chrome-beta_current_i386.rpm
So the installation worked and everything but I get no updates. I've had it installed for about a month now and I'm pretty sure I should have gotten some updates by now.

Not sure if it matters but in other distros that use apt, I see /etc/apt/sources.list.d/googe-chrome.list, but here in PCLOS, /etc/apt/sources.list.d is empty. Can I do anything so that I can get updates to Chrome via Synaptic? And I know that installing from outside the repos is frowned upon and that if I do so I'm supposed to be my own support; and I take responsibility if doing this somehow breaks my system. But if someone can point me in the right direction here, I'd appreciate it. The main reason I installed Chrome is because I haven't seen chromium-browser receiving any updates in a while.