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It appears the only valid way to install Chrome on Linux is by installing the RPM. I believe regular users don't have the ability to do this, so can webmaster RPM install the latest chrome on build.eclipse.org? We need this for automated JavaScript testing in Orion, but I expect other projects could find this useful too. We had previously been hacking together an install manually by cracking open the RPM and manually inserting what appeared to be the libraries it needs. This is error prone and changes with each Chrome release (every 6 weeks). For reference see bug 358931. We have been putting it under /shared/common, but are flexible on location.
Well, I installed and it doesn't work. I don't know which version(since the rpm is ever so helpfully named 'google-chrome-stable_current_x86_64.rpm'), but I did grab it today. It's not relocatable(as far as I can tell), so it had to go into /opt/google. When I try to run it I get some lib link errors(it's expecting libs with .so.0 ) and even when I resolve those it explodes as it wants libstdc++3.4.11 and our distro is currently at 3.3.3 . Based on this I think it's safe to say that Chrome doesn't support SLES. -M.
Wow! Thanks for trying this out. I did some digging and found: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=93054 Quote: "In short, you are out of luck. SLES / SLED 11 is unsupported as of Google Chrome 13." Is build.eclipse.org running SLES 11? Unless you're updating to a newer distro soon it sounds like we're out of luck.
Yes it runs SLES 11, and I don't think there are any plans to change that. Since it's not supported I"ll remove the rpm. Closing as 'not_eclipse'. -M.
I don't know why I didn't think of this... Webmaster can you install Chrome on the Hudson windows slave instead? If there is a way for me to install stuff there just point me in the right direction...
> I don't know why I didn't think of this... Because all our servers run SLES 11, none of which are supported?
(In reply to comment #5) > > I don't know why I didn't think of this... > > Because all our servers run SLES 11, none of which are supported? The Hudson Windows 7 slave... We run our Orion Internet Explorer tests there so we should able to do the same for our Chrome tests. I know Chrome runs on Windows 7...
Installed Google Chrome at: C:\Users\kmoir\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe Leaving this open until I can verify this works from a hudson test.
> Leaving this open until I can verify this works from a hudson test. John, how'd it go?
I haven't had a chance to try it. I'll assign this to myself so it is on my plate to resolve it.
I finally had time to look into this. I was able to install Chrome on the Hudson Windows machine using the e4build login that was created for us. However the Hudson build user does not have access to it: [apply] Failure 1: java.lang.RuntimeException: java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "C:\\Users\\kmoir\\AppData\\Local\\Google\\Chrome\\Application\\chrome.exe": CreateProcess error=5, Access is denied So I will need help from the webmaster to install Chrome as either administrator or hudson build user, so that the build will have permission to run it.
I've installed chrome for the Hudson user. -M.
Thanks Matt! Can you let me know if this is the path of the chrome executable: C:\Users\HUDSONBUILD\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe
The shortcut points at: c:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe -M.
Works like a charm. Thanks again!
