Google Chrome (Open Source Web Browser) --------------------------------------- Here's how to install Google Chrome on Slackware. First, go to the Google Chrome site: http://www.google.com/chrome Click the download button, and select either: < > 32 bit .deb (for Debian/Ubuntu) OR < > 64 bit .deb (for Debian/Ubuntu) Read and accept the license terms, and download the .deb package. Then, with the google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb or google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb package in the same directory as the google-chrome.SlackBuild script, run the script as root to convert the .deb to a Slackware .txz: ./google-chrome.SlackBuild This will produce a Slackware compatible .txz package. The exact version number in the package filename will depend on the version of Google Chrome found in the .deb package, but it will be something like: google-chrome-10.0.648.151-x86_64-1.txz You'll find the output package in the /tmp directory. Then, install the package (again as root): cd /tmp upgradepkg --install-new google-chrome-10.0.648.151-x86_64-1.txz Finally, please note that Google Chrome requires the GConf and ORBit2 packages found in this directory in order to run. Be careful with these as they may create unintended dependencies on GConf/ORBit2 in other software that you compile on machines where they are installed. Newer beta and unstable builds may also require the PAM library libpam.so.0. Installing the google-chrome-pam-solibs package in this directory will allow these newer versions of Chrome to run without having to actually switch the system to using PAM. If you need real PAM (to compile Chromium for example), you can find it in /extra/source/pam/. Enjoy! :-)