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gychang

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Registered: 2009-03-05

Posts: 16

need newbie guide to install Chrome browser, help!

Just installed the arch linux with KDE.  I am using the default Konqueror, but would like to install the 32bit version of chrome on my machine.

Can someone guide me on how to do this?, just a newbie...

thanks,

gychang

Skripka

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From: 2X1280X1024

Registered: 2009-02-19

Posts: 555

Re: need newbie guide to install Chrome browser, help!

Chromium (open source) is in Arch (Extra), just use Pacman.

Straight Chrome is in the AUR. (see: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR)

If you're on x64, I don't know why you'd want to install 32bit libraries/software when you don't need to.

Last edited by Skripka (2010-03-15 02:28:18)

phantasmik

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Registered: 2010-03-15

Posts: 15

Re: need newbie guide to install Chrome browser, help!

sudo pacman -S chromium

EDIT: correction, thanks

Last edited by phantasmik (2010-03-15 13:23:20)

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Surgat_

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Registered: 2007-08-08

Posts: 317

Re: need newbie guide to install Chrome browser, help!

sudo pacman -Sy chromium

That's NOT the way to go. Use either pacman -S chromium or pacman -Syu && pacman -S chromium

gychang

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Registered: 2009-03-05

Posts: 16

Re: need newbie guide to install Chrome browser, help!

sudo pacman -Sy chromium

That's NOT the way to go. Use either pacman -S chromium or pacman -Syu && pacman -S chromium

thanks so much, will try it.

gychang

fsckd

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Registered: 2009-06-15

Posts: 4,173

Re: need newbie guide to install Chrome browser, help!

Have you perused the wiki? You can not do much in ArchLinux without knowing how to use pacman.

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itburnz

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Registered: 2009-12-01

Posts: 26

Re: need newbie guide to install Chrome browser, help!

Do I read Skripka right that Chromium is 32 bit? I'm running Arch 64-bit and was thinking about giving Chromium a shot, but not if that involves running it on 32 bit libs. Or do 32-bit libs only apply to the AUR packages. If someone could shed some light on this that'd be excellent.

bangkok_manouel

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From: indicates a starting point

Registered: 2005-02-07

Posts: 1,556

Re: need newbie guide to install Chrome browser, help!

Do I read Skripka right that Chromium is 32 bit?

in fact, you didnt
http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra … /chromium/

itburnz

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Registered: 2009-12-01

Posts: 26

Re: need newbie guide to install Chrome browser, help!

Cheers! Seems I was too tired to see the 64bit package.