Install google chrome with wine in Ubuntu
Posted by admin on September 8th, 2008 
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Note:- Wine 1.1.4 has been released, and includes fixes for running Chrome.You need to make sure you have the wine version 1.1.4 installed
Install latest wine in Ubuntu
New WINE releases arrive every two weeks; the version in Ubuntu 8.04’s repository is already out-of-date. To be able to run Windows applications as well as possible, you should stay with the latest WINE releases.
Using GUI
Open System->Administration->Software Sources, and select the Third Party Software tab. Click Add and paste in the official WINE Ubuntu repository
deb http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt hardy main
When prompted, reload the repositories. Install the package wine from your package manager. Whenever a new version of WINE is released, you should see it in your Ubuntu updates.
Using Command line
First you need to edit the /etc/apt/sources.list
sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
add the following line save and exit
deb http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt hardy main
Update the source list file using the following command
sudo aptitude update
Install wine using the following command
sudo aptitude install wine
After installing you can check the wine version using the following command
wine --version
You need to make sure wine version is 1.1.4
Google’s net-installer for Chrome doesn’t work in Wine. Instead, use the standalone installer.Download it from here http://gpdl.google.com/chrome/install/149.27/chrome_installer.exe
Now you need to Open a terminal to and change to the directory you downloaded the installer to. Run the installer with Wine using the following command
wine chrome_installer.exe
The installation should complete.Now you need to Start Google Chrome and the Chrome window should open, but will appear to be broken. Close Chrome for now.
Run Chome with the–-new-http and –-in-process-plugins options to make it work (the command below is all one line):
wine ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/profiles/$USER/Local\ Settings/Application\ Data/Google/Chrome/Application/chrome.exe --new-http --in-process-plugins
Use the previous command whenever you want to start Chrome. At this point Chrome is working fine, but the fonts are not good looking. The fonts can be improved by using winetricks
Install winetricks using the following commands
wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks
chmod +x winetricks
./winetricks corefonts tahoma
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September 8th, 2008 at 4:12 am
I’d rather just wait till they release a Linux version, but maybe that’s just me?
September 8th, 2008 at 7:17 am
Why would you want to install Chrome? If you want speed and innovation use Opera which has tremendous user control/customisation such as cookie management, and provides downloads for Ubuntu.
September 8th, 2008 at 9:44 am
@Terry:
Yep, I WAS a big big fan of Opera.
but since Ubuntu 8.04 it doesn’t work on my computer anymore…
moreover it became slower than Firefox!
The last point is that I am using Windows to play and so I tried Chrome… I must admit that it is very cool ! (very quick to start up, wel thoughts in a lot of eature… and I love the multiple threading… I mean, when a site is broken it doesn’t screw the whole chrome but only the tab that contains it…. and this really is a cool feature!)
September 8th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
I tried this, but chrome does not run very well. For example, if I try to sign in to gmail, I get
This webpage is not available.
The webpage at https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service=mail&passive=true&rm=false&continue=http%3A%2F%2Fmail.google.com%2Fmail%2F%3Fui%3Dhtml%26zy%3Dl&bsv=1k96igf4806cy<mpl=default<mplcache=2 might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address.
September 8th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
Very good. Installing Flash crashes here though. Also, despite the Google documentation, it looks like a Java plugin doesn’t work (even in Windows).
September 8th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
Update: These instructions worked for me. Had to create the Plugins directory (don’t forget your user name which was omitted in the path provided).
September 8th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
See http://wiki.winehq.org/Chrome for up to date instructions.
September 8th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
It seems, that anybody cares about the information chrome is might sharing …
September 8th, 2008 at 10:33 pm
In comment #6 the URL got cut. I meant this url: http://www.thewwwblog.com/install-flash-player-google-chrome-browser.html got flash working.
September 9th, 2008 at 8:39 am
Hi, I have followed all the instructions and installed Chrome with latest wine. But as I request for a new page using Chrome, the program immediately halts. Why is that? Can you help?
Regards
Tarif
September 11th, 2008 at 12:11 am
Fa@#!$#@. Chrome
September 11th, 2008 at 6:34 pm
while installing wine with the link it throws a public key error
W: GPG error: http://wine.budgetdedicated.com hardy Release: The following signatures couldn’t be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 58403026387EE263
enjoy!!!
November 11th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
Solution for :
W: GPG error: http://wine.budgetdedicated.com hardy Release: The following signatures couldn’t be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 58403026387EE263
is :
wget -q http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/387EE263.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -