Hi Experts
Using this distro for first time. I am having issue when I try to install “Google Chrome”, I get following error,
“Media source ‘http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/12.3/repo/oss/’ does not contain the desired medium”
I am using the command “zypper in google-chrome-stable”
Please let me know if you need more info help me out.
Thanks
I do not think Chrome will be in the Oss repos. In the past I have just downloaded right from Google and install it with apper.
On Fri, 03 May 2013 19:56:03 GMT
Varada75 <Varada75@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Experts
>
> Using this distro for first time. I am having issue when I try to
> install “Google Chrome”,
>
Do you mean ‘Chromium’, Google’s browser? If so, go to YAST - software
management - and search for ‘chromium’, tick the box and install. If
not - sorry, can’t help.
–
Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks.
openSUSE 12.3 (64-bit); KDE 4.10.2; AMD Phenom II X2 550 Processor;
Kernel: 3.9.0; Video: nVidia GeForce 210 (using nouveau driver);
Sound: ATI SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA); Wireless: BCM4306
The package called “google-chrome-stable” you are searching for can only be downloaded directly from Google here: Google Chrome - The Fast & Secure Web Browser Built to be Yours
The 64 bit openSUSE package is called “google-chrome-stable_current_x86_64.rpm” and once downloaded, open Dolphin (in KDE), right click on the file in Downloads and select “Open With” and then "Install/Remove Software " and allow the application to install normally.
Thank You,
Varada,
Use Chromium,It does** not track you like Google Chrome does, It’s already available in Opensuse, & From the end user POV it does everything Google Chrome does the same way. Except t****rack you!!!
**
#zypper in chromium
Welcome to Opensuse & its forum!
Just to add
That if you use chromium, and obviously/probably also use the Packman repo, you can install the pepper flash for chromium and Hey Presto you have the same as Chrome
Thank you very much for support
strangely issue went away. I assume for some reason repo’s are not accessible but when I restarted machine I was able to contact all repos and installed without any issues.
Regarding the Google’s Chrome, it plays all the adobe content, but Chromium or Firefox plays some content but for some of it shows error “saying I need to install latest adobe flash player” (which anyways is failing)
Especially I use safari online content, most of which works only with Google’s Chrome.
Otherwise, this is my first time with OpenSuse and experience so far is great, very stable. I love OpenSuse KDE theme and its very light. Thanks much to OpenSuse team. Also community seems very supportive.
It has happened to me that a repo was unavailable for a while and even a reboot helps as you found out. Glad you got it working and hope you enjoy your openSUSE.
http://muopensuselinux.blogspot.com/2014/11/installing-google-chrome-on-opensuse-132.html
check this out easy and simple :)>:(>:)
I know its too old issue to reply…still to help someone , who had same problems as I faced.
Issue:
Unable to install google Chrome…
methods tried are:
1)downloaded rpm file
sudo rpm -uvf google-chrome-stable_current_x86_64.rpm
gives error of lsb >=4.0 needed
2)sudo zapper install google-chrome-stable
gives:
Loading repository data…
Reading installed packages…
‘google-chrome-stable’ not found in package names. Trying capabilities.
No provider of ‘google-chrome-stable’ found.
Resolving package dependencies…
Nothing to do.
3)opening rpm file with apper, says " your current backend does not support installing files "
Solution :
install lsb
i used this link :
https://software.opensuse.org/package/lsb
after installation comlete
try:
sudo rpm -uvf google-chrome-stable_current_x86_64.rpm
after
installtion is finished
something llike this appears
Preparing… ################################# [100%]
Updating / installing…
1:google-chrome-stable-40.0.2214.91################################# [100%]
update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/google-chrome-stable to provide /usr/bin/google-chrome (google-chrome) in auto mode
Now you have Google Chrome Installed.
Well I do not know if this is the proper way(whether installlling lsb was right decision), but only this one worked.
Suggetions plz 
the only “real” difference between chrome and chromium from a user point of view is the availability of flash and the pdf browser plugin, the latest pepper-flash is available from both packman and the non-oss repo, recently the pdf plugin was open sourced and is available from packman, if you really want a full fledged **blink browser **you’re better off with chromium (you’ll even get regular updates with apper)
to get all 3 chromium+flash+pdf do
sudo zypper in chromium chromium-pepper-flash chromium-pdf-plugin
you need to have packman’s repo for 12.3 enabled
zypper ar -f http://packman.inode.at/suse/openSUSE_12.3/
lsb is Linux standard base, you didn’t make a mistake installing lsb, as google’s chrome isn’t build for a specific distribution it needs the lsb package, you can install lsb with zypper it’s been a part of openSUSE from the beginning. Another reason I don’t recomend chrome is the fact that it’s not distro specific nobody knows with what libraries it was build with.
you can iunstall chrome with zypper by adding google’s repo.
sudo zypper ar https://www.google.com/linuxrepositories/
then you can install chrome with zypper
sudo zypper in chrome
that should install all dependencies like lsb automatically, I still think chromium is a better choice (see post above just change the packman repo to your openSUSE version the above is for 12.3)