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Google Chrome v12 not working in openSUSE 11.4

Just installed Google Chrome v12 in openSUSE 11.4, everything seems great. But when I tried to run it nothing happens.

I fired up konsole and this shows up

timus@opensuse114:~/Downloads> google-chrome
/usr/bin/google-chrome: error while loading shared libraries: libpng12.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
timus@opensuse114:~/Downloads>
Looks like we have missing dependencies. Searching repo, like:
zypper search libpng

shows the following...
S | Name                  | Summary                                                      | Type  
--+-----------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+--------
  | libpng12-0            | Library for the Portable Network Graphics Format (PNG)       | package
  | libpng12-compat-devel | Development Tools for applications which will use the Libpng | package
  | libpng12-devel        | Development Tools for applications which will use the Libpng | package
i | libpng14-14           | Library for the Portable Network Graphics Format (PNG)       | package
  | libpng14-compat-devel | Development Tools for applications which will use the Libpng | package
  | libpng14-devel        | Development Tools for applications which will use the Libpng | package

The following command fixes it.
sudo zypper install libpng12-0

Just out of curiosity, i did:

opensuse114:/home/timus/Downloads # rpm -qR google-chrome-stable
rpmlib(VersionedDependencies) <= 3.0.3-1
lsb >= 3.2
libasound.so.2 
libcairo.so.2 
libcurl.so.4 
libgconf-2.so.4 
libnss3.so(NSS_3.12.3) 
libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 
libsqlite3.so.0 
libbz2.so.1 
libXss.so.1 
libjpeg.so.62 
wget 
xdg-utils 
zlib 
/bin/sh 
/bin/sh 
/bin/sh 
/bin/sh 
rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1
rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1
rpmlib(PayloadIsBzip2) <= 3.0.5-1


So there you go, the rpm file that comes from Google is missing libpng12-0 dependency. I would really hope that this gets fixed in upcoming releases.

~ts

Comments

Fabian said…
Thanks your advice works perfect.
Fabian
Fabian said…
Thanks, it works perfect.
Glad that it is working for you... thanks for dropping a comment.
QR Capture said…
great nice work, wanna get more info

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