Running Google Chrome on openSUSE 11.1

Download and install the RPM here:

http://www.benkevan.com/upload/software/google-chrome-unstable-3.0.190.2-1.i386.rpm

or for 64-bit

http://www.benkevan.com/upload/software/google-chrome-unstable-3.0.190.2-1.x86_64.rpm

Then as root do the following :

ln -s /usr/lib/libnss3.so /usr/lib/libnss3.so.1d
ln -s /usr/lib/libnssutil3.so /usr/lib/libnssutil3.so.1d
ln -s /usr/lib/libsmime3.so /usr/lib/libsmime3.so.1d
ln -s /usr/lib/libssl3.so /usr/lib/libssl3.so.1d
ln -s /usr/lib/libplds4.so /usr/lib/libplds4.so.0d
ln -s /usr/lib/libplc4.so /usr/lib/libplc4.so.0d
ln -s /usr/lib/libnspr4.so /usr/lib/libnspr4.so.0d

And you will have Google Chrome running. It doesn't show up on my menu, but you can launch google-chrome from CLI. Note that this an experimental software, so it may be unstable.

Culled from Nubae Hubari's blog.

Killing the sound server

I was finishing watching another excellent episode of Category 5 TV when I did a normal Alt-F4 to kill Totem. That's when the sound system decided to continue running ala Max Headroom.

As root:

/etc/init.d/alsasound unload

and a later

/etc/init.d/alsasound reload

did the trick.

I use OpenSUSE and am unsure whether it will work on other distros.