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komrad_toast

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From: New York

Registered: 2012-08-24

Posts: 37

[SOLVED] google-chrome will not install

Hello all,
    I recently tried to install google-chrome from the AUR, but the dependancy "ttf-font" couldn't be found in any repositories. I did manage to get chrome to install by removing the dependancy from the PKGBUILD, but chrome will not start. It returns the following when attempting to start from a terminal:

[8646:8671:0314/164823:ERROR:object_proxy.cc(624)] Failed to get name owner. Got org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NameHasNoOwner: Could not get owner of name 'org.chromium.Mtpd': no such name
[8646:8671:0314/164823:ERROR:object_proxy.cc(624)] Failed to get name owner. Got org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NameHasNoOwner: Could not get owner of name 'org.chromium.Mtpd': no such name
--2013-03-14 16:48:23--  https://clients2.google.com/cr/report
Resolving clients2.google.com (clients2.google.com)... 74.125.225.131, 74.125.225.132, 74.125.225.133, ...
Connecting to clients2.google.com (clients2.google.com)|74.125.225.131|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/html]
Saving to: ‘/dev/fd/3’

    [<=>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     ] 0           --.-K/s              
Crash dump id: 7512cf7a8d416da0
    [ <=>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    ] 16          --.-K/s   in 0s      

zsh: abort (core dumped)  google-chrome

Last edited by komrad_toast (2013-03-14 21:36:48)

jynnantonix

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Registered: 2012-09-07

Posts: 33

Re: [SOLVED] google-chrome will not install

sounds like you haven't installed any fonts

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Be … uide#Fonts

Dependencies are typically listed because the program needs them to run.  While in some cases you can get the package to build by removing one or more of them, they will most likely not work correctly, if at all.

alphaniner

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From: Ancapistan

Registered: 2010-07-12

Posts: 2,810

Re: [SOLVED] google-chrome will not install

"ttf-font" is something certain packages provide, rather than the name of a package. For example:

$ pacman -Si ttf-dejavu
...
Provides       : ttf-font
...

Install something that provides ttf-font and try again. You may also need to rebuild google-chrome, but I doubt it.

However, there's nothing in the error message indicating that the lack of an appropriate font is the cause of your issue. So there may be something else wrong.

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komrad_toast

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From: New York

Registered: 2012-08-24

Posts: 37

Re: [SOLVED] google-chrome will not install

Thank you for the help guys. ttf-fonts was actually in the dependencies section of the PKGBUILD for google-chrome, so i figured it was a p[ackage on it's own. After installing ttf-dejavu everything works perfectly (and now minecraft is working as well, it wasn't before). I've never had to install fonts before (probably because they were pulled in by something else). Again, thank you very much, my issue is resolved.

alphaniner

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From: Ancapistan

Registered: 2010-07-12

Posts: 2,810

Re: [SOLVED] google-chrome will not install

So you know, ttf-dejavu is not the only package that provides ttf-font. It was just the first one I came across.

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But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist.
-Lysander Spooner