Google Chrome

Bill Davidsen davidsen at tmr.com
Fri Oct 3 16:27:18 UTC 2008


Rick Bilonick wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 15:11 -0500, John Thompson wrote:
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>> Rick Bilonick wrote:
>> | On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 08:49 -0500, John Thompson wrote:
>> | Rick Bilonick wrote:
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>> | | How did you get Chrome to install?
>> |
>> | What version of wine are you using? I'm using v1.1.4, which apparently
>> | has some Chrome-related tweaks to make it work.
>> |
>> |>
>>
>> | This is the version I'm using: wine-1.0-1.fc8.
>>
>>
>> Try this one:
>> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=63638
>>
>> HTH...
>>
> 
> Thanks. I used yum localinstall to update wine. Now the Chrome setup
> starts up, but stops because it wants to access the Internet. I'm not
> sure what is stopping Internet access. A help web page appears with
> instructions to fix it, but it's for Windows OS. I checked in wine
> configuration and also in Firefox (running under wine), but I don't see
> any option to change to allow Chrome set up to access the Internet to
> complete the installation. Any ideas? Did you have this problem?
> 
The complete package ready to run is described here:
http://www.codeweavers.com/about/people/blogs/jwhite/2008/9/15/fire-drills-and-proving-a-point
and it "works for me" using the WINE included. YMMV.

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