Installing rpm on Arch Linux

[denism]

I want to install Chrome but Google provides either deb or rpm packages.

I'm running Arch using vmware on iMac. deb package has AMD in the file name
and rpm says x86, so I assume I should install rpm? So should I use something like
rpm2tgz or rpm2tar and then use pacman or powerpill to install?

Denis

 

[Platypus]

I'm not familiar with Arch Linux specifically but I would imagine you do not want to mix package management types for any reason.

The AMD one is probably the AMD64/EM64T type (64bit) so it should work on your mac if it's intel.

This guide has two methods of installation and some interesting tidbits that the 64bit package is actually 32bit and a misnomer. The PKGBUILD and deb2targz options in that thread might hopefully point you in the right direction:

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=73457

Personally I would try the deb first.

 

[Jodell88]

log in as root

pacman -S chromium

You're welcome

 

[JohnOfSheffield]

I want to install Chrome but Google provides either deb or rpm packages.

I'm running Arch using vmware on iMac. deb package has AMD in the file name
and rpm says x86, so I assume I should install rpm? So should I use something like
rpm2tgz or rpm2tar and then use pacman or powerpill to install?

Denis

As jodell88 wrote, pacman -S chromium will get you the chrome browser, it will be 4.0+ if you are using extra or 5.0+ if you are using testing.

I suggest testing, it only craps out about once a year and then only when you have strange or old hardware and doing an incremental kernel or xorg update.

 

[denism]

log in as root

pacman -S chromium

You're welcome

Thank you, it worked

 

[XBoxLPU]

never log in as root

sudo pacman -S chromium

You're welcome

Corrected

 

[Nothinman]

Corrected

Not really. Logging into X as root is indeed stupid, but opening a shell as root via su isn't bad practice.