Google chrome for CentOS ??

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Re: printing doesn't work!

Post by pschaff » 2010/04/06 11:09:30

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xkahn wrote:
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Hmm... Trying this out on a (sorry) RHEL 5 system, I can't seem to print. The printer dialog shows up but there are no printers in the list. Other programs can print fine, so cups appears to be working. Is there some magic I need to do to get printing working?[/quote]

Welcome to the CentOS fora. The following reading is recommended for new users:
[url=http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=14274&forum=47]Readme First[/url]
[url=http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=14408&forum=47]Installing Software[/url]
[url=http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=14273&forum=47]Where to Find Answers[/url]
[url=http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=25128&forum=47]How to provide information about your system[/url]

1. If you have RHEL 5 you should be using their support channels. If you want to migrate to CentOS, please read http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/MigrationGuide

2. I am hard-pressed to understand what your question has to do with getting Google Chrome to work on CentOS. Please do not hijack threads. If you have a question about printing on CentOS, please start a new topic.

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Re: Google chrome for CentOS ??

Post by john0 » 2010/07/29 23:51:59

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pschaff wrote:

2. I am hard-pressed to understand what your question has to do with getting Google Chrome to work on CentOS. Please do not hijack threads. If you have a question about printing on CentOS, please start a new topic.[/quote]

The problem only happens in Chrome on CentOS. This topic is about exactly that.

I too am experiencing the same problem. CUPS seems to be working fine except in Chromium. The print dialog comes up but there are no printers in the list. Also, the print preview function does nothing. I've tried setting the CUPS_SERVER environment variable, I've also tried symlinking libcups.so.2 into the chrome lib directory. All to no avail.

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Re: Google chrome for CentOS ??

Post by scottro » 2010/08/18 23:39:36

Going back to the original subject, if one goes to the bug report, towards the very end (possibly the last post in the thread), one person gives instructions--or a link to instructions--on how to build Chrome on CentOS.

It's decidedly non-trivial, but apparently do-able.

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Re: Google chrome for CentOS ??

Post by redk » 2010/11/10 13:56:20

Thanks Chris,

Got it working in a couple of minutes.

Great Job! :-D

http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~cxs548/chrome

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Re: Google chrome for CentOS ??

Post by rklrkl » 2010/11/11 13:29:43

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scottro wrote:
Going back to the original subject, if one goes to the bug report, towards the very end (possibly the last post in the thread), one person gives instructions--or a link to instructions--on how to build Chrome on CentOS.[/quote]
That person was me and the exact link with the instructions is here:

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=26809

Google's rapid development rate and crazy major version incrementing when there's only one or two minor features added (dev=9, beta=8, stable=7 but next month, they'll all shift up by one - ludicrous!) means that you need continuous builds to keep up-to-date. I'm running 32-bit CentOS 5.5 in a virtual machine just for chromium dev, beta and stable builds. Amusingly, I couldn't actually find a single page with both the revision number and version number together on the Chromium Website (pages seems to list or the other, but not together - go figure!). Instead, my 4-hourly cron job actually uses a combination of http://omahaproxy.appspot.com/ and http://www.ubuntuupdates.org/pm/google-chrome-stable to detect a version change and then extract the revision number (you need the latter for an SVN sync).

The biggest pain is working out what later versions of packages you need and then make install'ing them into /usr/local (using LD_LIBRARY_PATH and PATH settings to use them over the standard CentOS 5 stuff) - it goes all the way down to glib and subversion amongst many others that need new versions. I'm just updating them this week on my build machine in fact and will have to clean out the dev/beta/stable Chromium builds and re-build them against the latest libraries.

I'm hoping that CentOS 6 (probably here by January now that RHEL 6 final is out) will remove the need for this and may even run the Google-built Chromium binaries out of the box if we're lucky. Anyone tried this with RHEL 6 final yet?

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Re: Google chrome for CentOS ??

Post by ryojikamei » 2010/12/18 12:41:38

Hi, here is a yet another way to run chromium:
http://www.linux-powered.com/~ryoji.kamei/ChromiumCentOS5.xhtml

It is a nondestructive way against existing system libraries, but took much disk size, I think.

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Re: Google chrome for CentOS ??

Post by scottro » 2010/12/18 13:18:42

Looks interesting, trying to download rpms now.

As for the question for RH6, I know the Scientific Linux 6 alpha can run it without issue, including plugins.

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Re: Google chrome for CentOS ??

Post by scottro » 2010/12/18 14:32:24

It worked quite well, including 64 bit flash. Thank you very much.

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Re: Google chrome for CentOS ??

Post by scottro » 2010/12/26 04:46:39

Thought I'd pass this one along in case others had the same issue. I found that the default fonts were too small for my aging eyes, and even setting them in the GUI preferences didn't work.

So, a bit of googling came across the following solution. (If you set font preferences first, this entry will be there--if you haven't there may be no webkit and font_size entries.

With chromium closed, add the following to $HOME/.config/chromium/Default/Preferences


[code]
"webkit": {
"webprefs": {
"default_fixed_font_size": 12,
"default_font_size": 12,
"fixed_font_family": "Sans",
"minimum_font_size": 12,
"minimum_logical_font_size": 12,
"sansserif_font_family": "Sans",
"serif_font_family": "Sans"
}
[/code]

(That's assuming the font size of 12 is large enough for you).

If you've set the preferences in the GUI, the specific things you have to add are minimum_font_size and minimum_logical_font_size.

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Re: Google chrome for CentOS ??

Post by TheBlackDragon7 » 2011/03/04 00:02:09

Has anyone experienced issues with syncing in the updates from the last few months?

I'm using CentOs 5.5 here at my school, and I've been using this version of the chromium browser for a while, and it actually works pretty well. However, in one of the updates in the last few months, when I tried to sync my bookmarks, themes, etc, I would get a segmentation fault and the browser would just close. If the error messages right before the segfault would help, I'll post them, but they would show up even before I tried to sync anything (they were something about a keyring)

Anyway, I hope I'm not alone on this one, the bookmark syncing is the reason why I've been working to keep the chrome browser on my account here.

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