Netbook Experience

As Standard Mint Linux is supplied with the FireFox Browser, which is a great and secure browser that always produces great results when rendering pages, but it’s not always the quickest option.

It’s useful to have 2 different browsers installed on you computer as different browsers have different strengths, and if you want a quick and speedy browsing experience then check out Google Chrome, which renders web pages extremely quickly.

To install Google Chrome on Mint Linux.

1) Click here

2) Click on Accept and Install

3) This will open the file download widow, make sure open with is highlighted and click on OK.4) When the file has downloaded, the install package window will open. Click on Install Package, and Google Chrome will now install.

Google Chrome will now be available in the Internet section of the Programs Menu.
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In this post I described how to install Chromium on the Linpus version of the Acer Aspire One.

However a number of you had let me know that the process had stopped working, and nothing happened after you clicked on the Chromium Icon.

So I downloaded and installed the latest version and found that I go the same problem.

When I ran Chromium from the command line I got the following error:

/opt/chrome-linux/chrome: error while loading shared libraries: libbz2.so.1.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Fortunately the excellent Macles site had the sollution:

After you have completed the steps described in the previous post:

• Open a terminal window and type the following 2 lines
• rm -rf /opt/chrome-linux/libs/libbz2.so.1.0
• ln -s /lib/libbz2.so.1 /opt/chrome-linux/libs/libbz2.so.1.0

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Recently Google Launched a version of their Chrome Browser for Linux, so I thought I would try it on my Acer Aspire One.

Unfortunately there were some dependency issues which I couldn’t resolve so it didn’t look like it was going to work.

Fortunately Macles has found a solution, I don’t understand it all but it works. It downloads and installs a version of Chromium, which is the open source version of Chrome.

Chromium works very well, it’s nice an speedy and much quicker then the version of FireFox that comes with the Acer Aspire One

Originally published here: http://macles.blogspot.com/2009/05/google-chrome-chromium-for-linux.html (and full credit to Macles) here’s the procedure I followed to install Chromium:

Open a terminal window and type the following:

• sudo mkdir -pm 777 /opt/chrome-linux/libs
• cd /opt/chrome-linux/libs
• wget http://koji.fedoraproject.org/packages/gcc/4.3.2/7/i386/libstdc++-4.3.2-7.i386.rpm
• wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/updates/9/i386.newkey/nspr-4.7.3-1.1.fc9.i386.rpm
• wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/updates/9/i386.newkey/nss-3.12.2.0-3.fc9.i386.rpm
• wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/updates/9/i386.newkey/pango-1.20.4-1.fc9.i386.rpm
• wget http://koji.fedoraproject.org/packages/cairo/1.6.4/1.fc9/i386/cairo-1.6.4-1.fc9.i386.rpm
• wget http://mirrors.eu.kernel.org/fedora/updates/10/i386/pixman-0.12.0-3.fc10.i386.rpm

• for i in `ls *rpm`; do rpm2cpio $i | cpio -idv; done; mv lib/* usr/lib/* $PWD
• for i in `ls lib*so`; do ln -s $i $i.0d; ln -s $i $i.1d; done

• cat << ‘EOF’ > /opt/chrome-linux/libs/chrome.sh
• #!/bin/sh
• export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/chrome-linux/libs:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
• /opt/chrome-linux/chrome
• EOF
• chmod 755 /opt/chrome-linux/libs/chrome.sh

• wget -N http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/continuous/linux/LATEST/chrome-linux.zip

• sudo unzip -o chrome-linux.zip -d /opt
• sudo chown -R user /opt/chrome-linux

• sudo mousepad /usr/share/applications/chromium.desktop

• Paste the following lines into the editor and save the file.

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Chromium
Comment=Chromium
Exec=/opt/chrome-linux/libs/chrome.sh
Icon=/opt/chrome-linux/chrome.png
Terminal=false
Type=Application

Download an icon and add it to the desktop.

wget http://src.chromium.org/svn/trunk/src/chrome/app/theme/chromium/product_logo_256.png
• mv product_logo_256.png /opt/chrome-linux/chrome.png
• dca add 10 “file=’/usr/share/applications/chromium.desktop’”

A Chromium Icon will now be visible in the Connect Section.

Updated:

Google Updated Chromium and the above process stopped working however once again the excellent Macles site provided the solution.

After you have completed the previous steps:

• Open a terminal window and type the following 2 lines
• rm -rf /opt/chrome-linux/libs/libbz2.so.1.0
• ln -s /lib/libbz2.so.1 /opt/chrome-linux/libs/libbz2.so.1.0

In additon Bryce has hadn’t a comment based on his experience:

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