Any luck running Google Chrome on Wine?

[vvvladut]

I'm running wine 1.1.4. When I try to run chrome_installer.exe, I get this:

ankavlad@ankavlad-desktop:~/Desktop$ wine chrome_installer.exe
fixme:ntdll:NtQuerySystemInformation info_class SYSTEM_PROCESSOR_PERFORMANCE_INFORMATION
fixme:shell:DllCanUnloadNow stub
fixme:shell:DllCanUnloadNow stub
ankavlad@ankavlad-desktop:~/Desktop$ fixme:shell:DllCanUnloadNow stub

I ran all steps in all tutorials I could find, including installing riched20 and riched30. Any ideas why it still doesn't work?

[chocbar31]

Have you tried the Wine AppDB way yet? It finally worked for me....phew!!!

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManage...estingId=30832

First, get wine-1.1.4 (or build wine from git).

Then grab a fresh winetricks and .wine, and install the following packages (firefox only needed to download chrome):

cd $HOME
rm winetricks
wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks
mv .wine .wine.old
sh winetricks msxml3 corefonts firefox flash winxp

Using Firefox in Wine, download the online installer from chrome.google.com and let Firefox run it.

Or, if you already have Firefox installed, you can grab Chrome's installer like this:

wine .wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Mozilla\ Firefox/firefox.exe chrome.google.com

Don't let Chrome's installer start Chrome. Instead, to run Chrome, do:

wine "$HOME/.wine/drive_c/windows/profiles/$USER/Local Settings/Application Data/Google/Chrome/Application/chrome.exe" --no-sandbox --new-http
**

This part (sh winetricks msxml3 corefonts firefox flash winxp) would not work in one command for me, so I did them individually and they worked well that way.

[BLTicklemonster]

Had to get the latest version of Wine from their site in order to get the installer for chrome to work, but now the buggy little bugger works:



Thanks for the how to.

[aliask]

You are a Ubuntu developer and you don't know the difference between running natively and running in an emulator?

Careful now - WINE actually stands for "WINE Is Not an Emulator".
It's a compatibility layer which translates the Windows API calls to native linux calls.

[chocbar31]

Ha...chrome skins!

http://www.freechromethemes.com/Down...rome-Theme.php

Looks much better with a nicer skin

Download a skin and unzip the default.dll file it contains

Replace the default.dll at the following location:

/home/USER/.wine/drive_c/windows/profiles/USER/Local Settings/Application Data/Google/Chrome/Application/0.2.149.29/Themes

Replace USER with your username!

[vvvladut]

Have you tried the Wine AppDB way yet? It finally worked for me....phew!!!

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManage...estingId=30832



This part (sh winetricks msxml3 corefonts firefox flash winxp) would not work in one command for me, so I did them individually and they worked well that way.

Thank you chocbar, will try this when I get home and will report.

I don't understand why I'd have to use FF under wine, but can't hurt to try it.

[kendon]

hm you're not gonna use it, just install it. i think it is an easy way to install some necessary parts in wine (correct me i i'm wrong).

[chocbar31]

hm you're not gonna use it, just install it. i think it is an easy way to install some necessary parts in wine (correct me i i'm wrong).

Exactly...just a bridge, for the most part. You won't really even see it, it'll just download and install requirements.

[YokoZar]

You are a Ubuntu developer and you don't know the difference between running natively and running in an emulator?

How is Wine any different from any other Linux library to run applications, like GTK or SDL?

[mrinvader]

On Topic Response..

Works Great with minor rendering glitches which may not be chrome related, but win32 flash related.. sometimes flash is upside down (celinedion.com) hehe..
Everyone gripes about memory usage... I find 50mb incl the Wine components to be very competitive, especially considering the EARLY stage of beta.

Off Topic Response..

Wine is an API or an ABI. It is slightly more than just libraries like gtk. Better said, here is a rip from the wikipedia article about it..

Architecture

Wine implements the Windows API entirely in user-space, rather than as a kernel module at the time of writing. Services normally provided by the kernel in Windows are provided by a daemon known as wineserver. Wineserver implements basic Windows functionality, as well as providing extra functions such as X Window integration and translation of signals into native Windows exceptions.