[SOLVED] Slackware and Chrome

ruario · 01-27-2015, 01:38 PM

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Originally Posted by goldennuggets

Last week when installing Chrome, the installation kept failing stating something about a missing PAM directory. I simply did a mkdir and the directory path and ran the installer again and it worked just fine. Now it's running smoothly.

Well I can assure that is not a requirement and I did not need to do it. So perhaps you located some very old copy of Chrome. I'll tell you what, I'll download a SalixOS 14.1 Xfce iso right now and do a quick test on a clean install. Give me 10 mins and I'll report back.

goldennuggets · 01-27-2015, 01:39 PM

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Originally Posted by ruario

Well I can assure that is not a requirement and I did not need to do it. So perhaps you located some very old copy of Chrome. I'll tell you what, I'll download a SalixOS 14.1 Xfce iso right now and do a quick test on a clean install. Give me 10 mins and I'll report back.

Sounds good. I grabbed the latest copy from the official chrome website. Installed on Slackware 14.1 and used fluxbox as my window manager.
Used http://docs.slackware.com/howtos:software:google-chrome as my installation method.

ruario · 01-27-2015, 02:02 PM

Yep, no PAM, no special directory and all dependencies already provided by a full install of SalixOS Xfce 14.1. Just run my script and when it completes install the resultant package.

EDIT: I also just did a quick and dirty "small" Slackware64 14.1 install (the a/, d/, l/, n/ and x/ package sets, plus diffutils, groff, man, man-pages, sqlite from ap/ and fluxbox from xap/). Using my script to create the package, Google Chrome installed and ran just fine on this system as well.

Megamieuwsel · 01-29-2015, 11:02 PM

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Originally Posted by bassmadrigal

What is the "poof"/error when trying to run Chrome?

Cant tell ya; My iron got fried and the new one wont be in for another day...