14.1: Google-chrome upgrade will not build: file format not recognized
 

Trying to upgrade google-chrome on a newly upgraded Sony Vaio. Downloaded all 51M of the google-chrome-current-amd64.deb file and put it in the directory with the other files. According to the README it should build like any other Slackware package.

However, when I run (as root, of course) ./google-chrome.SlackBuild the process immediately fails with the message that the .deb file is not recognized and is not a .txz file. According to the SlackBuild script the input is supposed to be a .deb file so I'm puzzled as to the source of the problem.

A clue stick would be much appreciated,

Rich

Have you tried ruario's latest-chrome script? I just tried building a chrome package with it, and it worked. However, using the SlackBuild from extra/ also worked for me, the only error I got was that the .desktop file was missing (ln).

edit: Not Google Chrome, but Alien BOB has chromium packages if all else fails.

@rshepard: I suspect you didn't download the latest chrome deb package and place it alongside ./google-chrome.SlackBuild. Did you?

@lems: The SlackBuild from extra would work as well but needs a patch. AlienBOB created one but it looks like Pat has not got around to applying it. Using my latest-chrome script does indeed work and is easier ... but then ... I am biased. :p

lems: Thanks for the pointer because ...

ruario: your script worked flawlessly. I'm keeping it on the laptop where chrome is the browser of choice so I have it for the next upgrade. If AlienBOB's patch is incorporated in the next Slackware release then that's the default option.

Much appreciated, both of you,

Rich

Just run it from time to time. If there is no new version it will tell you so. If there is a new version it will download and repack it.

P.S. Rather than issuing "bash ./latest-chrome" every time you can just make it executable and stick it somewhere in your $PATH (e.g. /usr/local/bin), so you can just run "latest-chrome" directly, from whatever directory you happen to be in.

Ruari,

Thank you. I'll adopt your suggestions.

Much appreciated,

Rich