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Installing Google Chrome or Chromium on Slackware 13.37 64 Bit

I recently started using Slackware and it was all going smoothly until I tried to install Chromium. I follow the instructions on the Slackbuilds website, the compiling process was working fine, but then it ended on a series of errors:

Code:

chmod: cannot operate on dangling symlink `./third_party/openssl/openssl/test/fips_dsatest.c'

chmod: cannot operate on dangling symlink `./third_party/openssl/openssl/test/fips_rngvs.c'

chmod: cannot operate on dangling symlink `./third_party/openssl/openssl/test/fips_aesavs.c'

chmod: cannot operate on dangling symlink `./third_party/openssl/openssl/test/fips_dssvs.c'

chmod: cannot operate on dangling symlink `./third_party/openssl/openssl/test/fips_rsavtest.c'

chmod: cannot operate on dangling symlink `./third_party/openssl/openssl/test/fips_shatest.c'

chmod: cannot operate on dangling symlink `./third_party/openssl/openssl/test/fips_desmovs.c'

chmod: cannot operate on dangling symlink `./third_party/openssl/openssl/test/fips_rsagtest.c'

chmod: cannot operate on dangling symlink `./third_party/openssl/openssl/test/fips_rsastest.c'

chmod: cannot operate on dangling symlink `./third_party/openssl/openssl/test/fips_randtest.c'

chmod: cannot operate on dangling symlink `./third_party/openssl/openssl/test/fips_hmactest.c'

chmod: cannot operate on dangling symlink `./third_party/openssl/openssl/test/fips_test_suite.c'

/usr/bin/env: python: No such file or directory

So if anyone knew a way around this, I would be very grateful:)

My second question is how to get Google Chrome working. I followed the instructions in the Readme for google-chrome in the extras folder on the DVD, but when I start the build process it only gets this far:

Code:

bash-4.1# ./google-chrome.SlackBuild

./google-chrome.SlackBuild: line 71: ar: command not found

lzma: (stdin): File format not recognized

tar: This does not look like a tar archive

tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

If anyone can help me resolve this set of errors, I would also be grateful:)

I have done extensive googling to make sure I'm doing it right and as far as I can tell I'm following all the steps perfectly. It would be nice if someone could give me some pointers as to resolving what I'm doing wrong:)

Are you logged in as the Root or as your user account?

I am logged in as root. Does installation require me to use a regular user and run the commands through sudo?

It looks like you didn't use full installation?
you missed xz package

Is there a way to install that after installation or should I do a clean install and make sure I get everything installed?

Quote:

Originally Posted by willysr (Post 4680528)

It looks like you didn't use full installation?
you missed xz package

Actually I think he is missing binutils because of this failure:

Code:

./google-chrome.SlackBuild: line 71: ar: command not found

ar is provided by binutils. You should actually already have this package. Did you do a full install?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jdogzz (Post 4680845)

Is there a way to install that after installation or should I do a clean install and make sure I get everything installed?

Just do this :

Code:

slackpkg install slackware

will install all not yet installed packages.
Of course slackpkg must be first installed and configured.
See "man slackpkg" then.

@ruario I unchecked the programming software series, I think the D series, would that be causing the problem?

@Didier Spaier When I put in the command you specified it gave this output:

Code:

bash-4.1# slackpkg install slackware



Looking for slackware in package list. Please wait... DONE



No packages match the pattern for install. Try:



        /usr/sbin/slackpkg reinstall|upgrade

And when pasting the command it suggested, just to be sure it was thorough, it gave me this:

Code:

bash-4.1# /usr/sbin/slackpkg reinstall|upgrade 

bash: upgrade: command not found

So what else should I try to make sure I have installed everything?

"No package math the pattern for install" smean that you have a full install. To check, try "slackpkg remove <some_package_you_don't_need>" then "slackpkg install slackare again". It should propose you to reinstall the removed package.

Oh and "/usr/sbin/slackpkg reinstall|upgrade" suggest you to do "slackpkg reinstall" or "slackpkg upgrade" (the sign "|" stands for "or").

Quote:

Originally Posted by Didier Spaier (Post 4681270)

But what should it be installing is my question:) I don't know how to install whole series of items from the initial software series listed here:
http://www.slackbook.org/html/book.h...OFTWARE-SERIES

I went ahead and reinstalled Slackware, making sure to include the programming package, and now everything works perfectly:) Marking as solved.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jdogzz (Post 4681262)

@ruario I unchecked the programming software series, I think the D series, would that be causing the problem?

Yes, binutils is part of D. Without this there is no ar and without ar the SlackBuild cannot open the .deb file.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jdogzz (Post 4681397)

I went ahead and reinstalled Slackware, making sure to include the programming package, and now everything works perfectly:) Marking as solved.

actually you can solve this without reinstalling all of them, but i guess it's too late to say this

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jdogzz (Post 4680510)

Code:

chmod: cannot operate on dangling symlink `./third_party/openssl/openssl/test/fips_dsatest.c'

chmod: cannot operate on dangling symlink `./third_party/openssl/openssl/test/fips_rngvs.c'

chmod: cannot operate on dangling symlink `./third_party/openssl/openssl/test/fips_aesavs.c'

chmod: cannot operate on dangling symlink `./third_party/openssl/openssl/test/fips_dssvs.c'

chmod: cannot operate on dangling symlink `./third_party/openssl/openssl/test/fips_rsavtest.c'

chmod: cannot operate on dangling symlink `./third_party/openssl/openssl/test/fips_shatest.c'

chmod: cannot operate on dangling symlink `./third_party/openssl/openssl/test/fips_desmovs.c'

chmod: cannot operate on dangling symlink `./third_party/openssl/openssl/test/fips_rsagtest.c'

chmod: cannot operate on dangling symlink `./third_party/openssl/openssl/test/fips_rsastest.c'

chmod: cannot operate on dangling symlink `./third_party/openssl/openssl/test/fips_randtest.c'

chmod: cannot operate on dangling symlink `./third_party/openssl/openssl/test/fips_hmactest.c'

chmod: cannot operate on dangling symlink `./third_party/openssl/openssl/test/fips_test_suite.c'

/usr/bin/env: python: No such file or directory

So if anyone knew a way around this, I would be very grateful:)

I am having the same problem here. Mine was trying to install chromium for Slackware14 with 64 bit version.
I did re-install everything from the DVD which was burnt from the downloaded ISO image. Still the same error messages. Anything I should do to fix it?

Thanks.

@688a Just to make sure, you selected the Full install when installing Slackware? And which version did you install?