How To Quickly Install Chromium (Google Chrome) In openSUSE
If you’re currently using Google Chrome web browser in Windows and you want to do the same in your openSUSE Linux system, you can install chrome easily and quickly by following the slides below.
In this brief tutorial, I’ll show you how to install Chromium (Google Chrome) in openSUSE and begin enjoying what same features in Windows.
Getting Started:
To get started, press Alt-F2 on your keyboard and select Run in terminal then enter the following commands and click Run.
su -c "yast2 repositories"
Next, click Add
Select Community Repositories and click Next.
From the list of repositories, select Main Repository (Contrib) and click OK to install.
Click Import when prompted.
Click OK to close.
Next, press Alt-F2 on your keyboard and select Run in terminal and enter the below commands and click Run.
package-manager --install
In the search box, type chromium and select the package from the list below, then click Apply.
Click Apply
Enjoy Chrome.
Thanks for reading and hope to see you again.
Holy crap! As a Linux newbie, over the past month I took about 12-15 different distros out for a test drive, including OpenSuse 11.4 KDE. I spent 4 hours over the course of 2 days trying to figure out how the heck to get either Chrome or Chromium installed and couldn’t for the life of me figure it out (and I would be accurately described by my friends/family as being very ‘techy’). I think the folks at OpenSuse might want to consider that making such a simple task so ridiculously complex certainly doesn’t lend itself to attracting newbies such as myself. Of the various distros that I’ve tried OpenSuse definitely ended up being the least newbie-friendly I’m sad to say. I really wanted to like it too, since it was so sharp to look at, otherwise why would I have spent so much time trying to get such a straightforward task accomplished in Linux. If other newbies read this, so far I’ve found that Linux Mint is hands-down the most newbie-friendly distro out there, just fyi.