Google Chrome cannot be installed in PCLinuxOS 2010.07

I have documented in another post that Google Chrome cannot be installed in CentOS 5.5 due to Linux Standard Base library is outdated.

I would expect differently with PCLinux OS as it is trying to get as updated as possible to the extent that the distro is releasing new version quarterly.

Here is the version of Chrome that I am trying to install:

[root@localhost Downloads]# rpm -i google-chrome-stable_current_i386.rpm 
warning: google-chrome-stable_current_i386.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 7fac5991
error: Failed dependencies:
 lsb >= 3.2 is needed by google-chrome-stable-5.0.375.127-55887.i386

As you can see, it complains that lsb needed by the package is 3.2 but what is installed is 2.0.x.

[root@localhost Downloads]# apt-cache show lsb-release
Package: lsb-release
Section: System/Base
Installed Size: 19233
Packager: Texstar 
Version: 2.0-5pclos2007
Depends: bash
Provides: lsb-release = 2.0-5pclos2007
Architecture: i586
Size: 1
MD5Sum: 
Filename: 
Summary: Linux Standard Base tools
Description: 
 LSB version query program
 
 This program forms part of the required functionality of
 the LSB (Linux Standard Base) specification.
 
 The program queries the installed state of the distribution
 to display certain properties such as the version of the
 LSB against which the distribution claims compliance as
 well. It can also attempt to display the name and release
 of the distribution along with an identifier of who produces
 the distribution.

It is interesting to note that LSB 2.0 was released around September of 2004. So this package was not updated for 6 years. This feels like eternity in internet time.

Well, fallback to Firefox :)

~ts

Installing PCLinuxOS 2010.07 GNOME on VirtualBox

PCLinux OS releases new distribution quarterly, at least that is how it looks right now. Last time, I did a screen capture of PCLinuxOS KDE. The latest release came around July 2010 (I believe it was released 08July2010). This time around I will document installing GNOME. This can be helpful for folks who are distro hoping but don't have the time yet to install it.

Figure 1. This is the boot screen. It looks geeky and pretty nice.

Figure 2. Splash screen.

Figure 3. Keyboard layout. Select the physical layout of your keyboard not your current location.

Figure 4. GDM login screen. Select "guest", password is "guest".

Figure 5. This is the PCLinux OS GNOME desktop. Dark theme with applications you have come to expect from a regular full Linux distribution.

Figure 6. Double-click(run) on "Install Licecd". Root password is "root".

Figure 7. PCLinuxOS Installation Wizard introduction screen.

Figure 8. Hard disk partitioning. Default should be fine if you are doing this on a VirtualBox guest machine.

Figure 9. Commit changes and format partition.

Figure 10. Boot loader options. For VirtualBox guest installation defaults should be fine. If you are performing a dual boot installation, you may need to tweak something in this screen.

Figure 11. Boot menu option, item with * will be used as the default during a bootup sequence.

Figure 12. Installation complete. Reboot as instructed.

Figure 13. Welcome to your PCLinuxOS 2010.07 GNOME Edition!!! But we are not done, yet.

Figure 14. This is where you define your "root" password. This is the superuser, similar to "Administrator" in Windows.

Figure 15. Create a user account. This should be the user that you will use often. It is not advisable to use root as your regular user account.

Figure 16. We are back to GDM login screen. But this time we are running from  the installed copy of PCLinuxOS instead of Livecd.

Figure 17. Welcome to your PCLinuxOS 2010.07 GNOME Desktop!!!.

Figure 18. Screen capture of the GNOME menu structure as implemented by this distro.

Note that it comes with VirtualBox guest additions pre-installed. Isn't that neat? :)

Enjoy!!!

~ts

Installing PCLinuxOS 2010 KDE on VirtualBox

This is a screen capture sequence installing PC Linux OS 2010 KDE in VirtualBox 3.2.0.

Figure 1. Boot screen

Figure 2. Keyboard Layout selection. In most cases the detected layout is appropriate.

Figure 3. Click on the highlighted icon to install PCLinuxOS 2010 KDE Edition.

Figure 4. Install root password, this should be root.

Figure 5. GRUB options. Default should do just fine here, in my case, changed boot delay to 2 seconds.

Figure 6. Default Linux image to boot machine. You should still be able to select fail safe or no frame buffer (nonfb).

Figure 7. Installation is done!!! Reboot machine to configure root password and a user.

Figure 8. This will be your machines password.

Figure 9. Add a user here, this will be your workhorse username.

Figure 10. Login to your new PCLinuxOS machine.

Figure 11. Welcome to PCLinuxOS 2010 KDE Edition!!!

Enjoy.

~ts