Unable to install google-chrome

cyb3rick · 2012-05-25 19:36:35

I download the package from the AUR, untar it and run makepkg -s and all I get is this message:

mv: cannot stat `opt/google': No such file or directory
Aborting...

Any ideas?

$ makepkg -s
==> Making package: google-chrome 19.0.1084.52-1 (Fri May 25 15:33:16 AST 2012)
==> Checking Runtime Dependencies...
==> Checking Buildtime Dependencies...
==> Retrieving Sources...
  -> Downloading google-chrome-stable-19.0.1084.52-138391.i386.rpm...
--2012-05-25 15:33:16--  [url]http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/i386/google-chrome-stable-19.0.1084.52-138391.i386.rpm[/url]
Resolving dl.google.com... 173.194.37.67, 173.194.37.68, 173.194.37.69, ...
Connecting to dl.google.com|173.194.37.67|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 40716142 (39M) [application/x-redhat-package-manager]
Saving to: “google-chrome-stable-19.0.1084.52-138391.i386.rpm.part”

100%[======================================>] 40,716,142  1.46M/s   in 32s     

2012-05-25 15:33:49 (1.21 MB/s) - “google-chrome-stable-19.0.1084.52-138391.i386.rpm.part” saved [40716142/40716142]

==> Validating source files with md5sums...
    google-chrome-stable-19.0.1084.52-138391.i386.rpm ... Passed
==> Extracting Sources...
==> Entering fakeroot environment...
==> Starting package()...
==> Preparing install
mv: cannot stat `opt/google': No such file or directory
    Aborting...

Last edited by cyb3rick (2012-05-25 21:19:57)

DarkCerberus · 2012-05-25 19:43:24

Hi there,

Please try installing chrome using the following command:

pacman -S chromium

Chrome is already in the official repository.

djraymondnm · 2012-05-25 20:05:06

Chromium and google-chrome aren't quite the same, as the latter has some proprietary parts added by Google, such as inline display of pdfs.

Have you tried creating the directory /opt/google before doing the install? (as root: mkdir /opt/google)

litemotiv · 2012-05-25 20:09:56

djraymondnm wrote:

the latter has some proprietary parts added by Google, such as inline display of pdfs.

You can install aur/chromium-browser-libpdf as a separate plugin for Chromium, or the Docs PDF/PowerPoint Viewer extension to open PDF's in Google Docs/Drive.

cyb3rick · 2012-05-25 20:22:25

@DarkCerberus: What djraymondnm said.

@djraymondnm: Yes. The directory exists.

The only reason I'm trying to install google-chrome is because the chromium package is too unstable (crashes for w/e reason, doesn't display some pages correctly i.e. I can't see facebook's news feed).

Right now I'm using chromium-browser-bin package but I'd like to install google-chrome's to see if I can get rid of the constant annoyances.

Thank you all for your prompt replies and help so far.

karol · 2012-05-25 21:00:06

You can try a package from an unofficial repo https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Un … positories
* adslgr32 google-chrome-beta 10.0.648.151-1
* adslgr32 google-chrome-dev 11.0.696.14-1
* archstuff google-chrome-beta 8.0.552.28-1
* archstuff google-chrome-dev 9.0.597.0-1
* march google-chrome-no-gconf stable-1

Apart from the last one (I've installed it and it's version 17), they all are rather old.

If you're having problems with an AUR package, post in the comments https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=37469

Please use [ code ] tags for posting snippets of code https://bbs.archlinux.org/help.php#bbcode

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#1 2012-05-25 19:36:35

Unable to install google-chrome

#2 2012-05-25 19:43:24

Re: Unable to install google-chrome

#3 2012-05-25 20:05:06

Re: Unable to install google-chrome

#4 2012-05-25 20:09:56

Re: Unable to install google-chrome

#5 2012-05-25 20:22:25

Re: Unable to install google-chrome

#6 2012-05-25 21:00:06

Re: Unable to install google-chrome

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