Want to try Google Chrome?
September 5, 2008 by Clair Ching
Filed under Geeky Fun
iTWire has shared a guide on how to check out Google Chrome o Linux. Not that it will be a working version though. 
Required packages:
- subversion 1.4
- pkg-config 0.20
- Python 2.4
- Perl 5.0
- gcc/g++ 4.2
- bison 2.3
- flex 2.5.34
- gperf 3.0.3
- libnss3-dev 3.12
You need to check out a copy of the code from the repository so you need to have a Subversion client. The guide shows you the commands that you need to execute in order to get a copy of the application, somehow.
I am going to sit this one out and continue to hope and wait for the official Linux version of Google Chrome. I still have other apps I would love to see for myself and I am ok waiting for Google Chrome 
I find rather amusing that the people who would never try anything but Ubuntu because of “easy of X” (where X is anything you can imagine, for example use or package instalation) would instead try to do this just for a new hype. Same people who would never install Opera with the argument of it not being open source, is now in a rush trying to get this equally closed browser working in their systems. (no, Chrome is NOT open source, check no-chrome.com)
Clair, this is not a personal attack, I enjoy reading this site (that’s why I always comment here
) but this kind of thing really amuses me.
It’s ok. XD I saw Chrome on a co-worker’s machine and it looked, well, shiny. And I tend to gravitate towards shiny things (and cute things for that matter). While I’d rather get an Ubuntu package, I’ve read that there is no working version of Chrome on Linux yet even compiled and knowing that these past days have been hectic for me, I don’t have enough time to read enough to fix things.
No offense taken
I enjoy reading your comments here, and it’s fun talking with you somehow. Even if it’s just in the comments section. ^^