Google Chrome not working

ritslinux · May 18, 2011, 1:10am

openSUE11.4 with KDE

I added browser chrome by Yast to my system. But it does not start, only a bouncing icon and then nothing. What could be wrong.

jdmcdaniel3 · May 18, 2011, 2:04am

I have not been using Chrome, but decided to install it when you indicated you were having a problem. I installed 13.0.767 from YaST using the openSUSE contrib repository. Are you trying to use the same version from the same repository as I? Chrome does load and seems to work OK, at least under openSUSE 11.4 and a 64 bit configuration.

Thank You,

martin_helm · May 18, 2011, 1:40am

Most probably a missing library, open a terminal and type


google-chrome

post the output here, it should contain an error message which tells what is
missing.

martin_helm · May 18, 2011, 2:13am

jdmcdaniel3 wrote:

> I installed 13.0.767 from YaST
> using the openSUSE contrib repository.

I guess you installed chromium, it is not exatly the same as chrome.

jdmcdaniel3 · May 18, 2011, 3:25am

OK then, now I have Chrome and Chromium. I did not find Chrome in a YaST repository, but downloaded it from Google. It says it is version 11.0.696.68 and does seem to work as well.

Thank You,

martin_helm · May 18, 2011, 12:02pm

jdmcdaniel3 wrote:

>
> OK then, now I have Chrome and Chromium. I did not find Chrome in a
> YaST repository, but downloaded it from Google. It says it is version
> 11.0.696.68 and does seem to work as well.
>
> Thank You,
>
That only means that all libraries needed by chrome on your machine were
simply already there.
I still wait for the OP to report back, what the error message is.

martin_helm · May 18, 2011, 12:05pm

The error message on a clean system is


opensuse@linux-1jha:~> google-chrome
/usr/bin/google-chrome: error while loading shared libraries: libpng12.so.0:
cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Installing libpng12-0 solves that.

jdmcdaniel3 · May 18, 2011, 1:03pm

Installing libpng12-0 solves that.

Hello martin_helm. So I do have libpng12-0 installed along with several other libpng files. What might have installed these automatically for me, do you know?

Thank You,

martin_helm · May 18, 2011, 1:17pm

jdmcdaniel3 wrote:

>
>> Installing libpng12-0 solves that.
>
> Hello martin_helm. So I do have libpng12-0 installed along with
> several other libpng files. What might have installed these
> automatically for me, do you know?
>
> Thank You,
>
Honestly no idea what else needs them on your system
I just remebered that one dependency for chrome was broken (means it did not
install that package if it was not already there) but I did not remeber
which one.
Looking at my real system (not the virtual machine I used for the test) I
see that for example the qt3 libs require the old libpng12.

ritslinux · May 18, 2011, 11:52pm

Well I tried from Google first and downloaded rpm file:
I get this:
richard@openSUSE:~> google-chrome
/usr/bin/google-chrome: error while loading shared libraries: libpng12.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

So this libpng-thing is missing ?

ritslinux · May 19, 2011, 12:03am

BTW doing a find shows the file is present on some locations:

/usr/lib/libpng14.so.14.4.0
/usr/lib/libpng14.so.14
/usr/lib64/vlc/plugins/codec/libpng_plugin.so
/usr/lib64/libpng14.so.14.4.0
/usr/lib64/libpng14.so.14
/home/richard/.mozilla/firefox/v30c4wak.richard/extensions/VMwareVMRC@vmware.com/plugins/lib/libpng12.so.0
/home/richard/.mozilla/firefox/v30c4wak.richard/extensions/VMwareVMRC@vmware.com/plugins/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0
/home/richard/.dropbox-dist/libpng12.so.0

SO probably I have to add it in some Chrome-dir also ??

jdmcdaniel3 · May 19, 2011, 12:23am

ritslinux, if I go to YaST and search on libpng12, where I find it installed and go to the file list, here is where it says they are loaded.

/usr/lib64/libpng12.so.0
/usr/lib64/libpng12.so.0.44.0

2 files total

If it then makes a different just as martin_helm says and you installed libpng12 version 1.2.44 in YaST / Software / Software Management from the openSUSE-11.4-Oss repository, it should go into the same place as mine and then presumable work with Chrome.

Thank You,

martin_helm · May 19, 2011, 12:31am

ritslinux wrote:
> SO probably I have to add it in some Chrome-dir also ??
>
As I wrote before: Simply install the package libpng12-0 with yast or zypper
to solve that.

human_fans · May 19, 2011, 1:44am

go to the Path of google chrome package。run termial

sudo zypper in thepackagename

and maybe can run google-chrome

csm58 · May 21, 2011, 5:39pm

I had the same problem… installed the 64 bi rpm from the Google site… but Chrome wouldn’t launch. Confirming that installing libpng12-0 through YaST did solve the problem.

ykx · August 21, 2011, 7:57am

Try
sudo zypper in libpng12-*

Then install
libpng12-compat-devel