The Atheist Blogger

No, not the kind of wine that makes you tipsy, but the kind that allows Windows programs to run on non-windows operating systems. With the release of Google Chrome, the new browser from Google, I was disappointed that they had failed to make a beta version for other operating systems. However, I tried running the installer in wine, only to get the following result:

fixme:advapi:CheckTokenMembership ((nil) 0×13fba0 0×33f930) stub!
fixme:process:SetProcessShutdownParameters (00000280, 00000001): partial stub.
fixme:ole:CoInitializeSecurity ((nil),-1,(nil),(nil),6,2,(nil),64,(nil)) – stub!
fixme:winhttp:WinHttpOpen ((null), 1, (null), (null), 0×0): stub

A few people managed to get it working through a few tweaks.

First, make sure you are running the latest version of wine (1.1.3 currently).

Download the offline installer of Google Chrome.

Then get the native riched20 and riched30:

wget http://kegel.com/wine/winetricks

sh ./winetricks riched20 riched30

To run Google Chrome simply execute the following command:

wine “$HOME/.wine/drive_c/windows/profiles/$USER/Local Settings/Application Data/Google/Chrome/Application/chrome.exe” –new-http –in-process-plugins

It should also run from your Wine program directory (Applications -> Wine -> Programs -> Google Chrome) if you are running Gnome.

Just to prove it works, here is a screenshot.

It works!

Oh yeah, and I wrote this post in Google Chrome :D

It is a bit laggy and the anti-aliasing doesn’t work, but that is expected with a compatibility layer such as wine. All the main features are fast and impressive though. It gets a thumbs up from me!