openSUSE 11.4: Still Cannot Install Google Chrome!!!

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Hi,

I have openSUSE 11.4 KDE 64 bit and kernel-2.6.37.6-0.5 (default). Although through YAST I did add openSUSE contrib repo and libpng12-0, I still cannot install Google Chrome (64-bit). After downloading the installation file and hitting automatically install via KPackageKit, I got an error message: “The file is not valid”.

Any suggestions?

Thanks a lot for your help.

:frowning:

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Try chromium unless you particularly want the Google extensions.

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Thank you John for your suggestion. Here’s how I finally got it:

YAST > Software Management > Search: Google

Got Chromium in the right pane. Also need to install libv8-3, a javascipt package

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On Sun, 03 Jul 2011 19:36:02 +0000, taytong888 wrote:

> I have openSUSE 11.4 KDE 64 bit and kernel-2.6.37.6-0.5 (default).
> Although through YAST I did add openSUSE contrib repo and libpng12-0, I
> still cannot install Google Chrome (64-bit). After downloading the
> installation file and hitting automatically install via KPackageKit, I
> got an error message: “The file is not valid”.
>
> Any suggestions?

Download the RPM and then install from the CLI - kpackagekit is known to
have problems.

At the CLI, change to the download directory and then issue:

sudo rpm -Uhv google-chrome*.rpm

I’ve done that with the download on three machines here and it’s worked
every time.

Jim

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Jim,

Thanks for pointing out the command-line approach and the reason KPackageKit is not working.