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Well first step is to make sure you have Wine installed (if you do not have it installed just type ‘sudo apt-get install wine‘ in your terminal) and it is the latest version. You can check it by opening up the terminal and typing ‘wine –version‘, or if you just want to make sure it is always updated you can add it to the repos by typing ‘sudo wget http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/sources.list.d/hardy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/winehq.list‘ in the terminal. Once you have that taken care of we can move onto the subject at hand.

Now open up that terminal and get ready to check out Google Chrome.

Step One:

Download and Install WineTricks and it’s Dependencies:

wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks
sudo cp winetricks /usr/bin
sudo chmod +x winetricks
winetricks riched20 riched30 flash allfonts

Step Two:

Download the Chrome Installer:

wget http://gpdl.google.com/chrome/install/149.27/chrome_installer.exe

Step Three:

Open Google Chrome.Desktop in Gedit:

sudo gedit

Once the editor is open just drag and drop the desktop icon into the text area and it should load something similar to this:

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Google Chrome
Exec=env WINEPREFIX=”/home/memstat/.wine” wine “C:\\windows\\profiles\\memstat\\Local Settings\\Application Data\\Google\\Chrome\\Application\\chrome.exe”
Type=Application
StartupWMClass=Wine
Path=/home/memstat/.wine/dosdevices/c:/windows/profiles/memstat/Local Settings/Application Data/Google/Chrome/Application
Icon=c3e0_chrome.0
GenericName[en_US]=

All you need to do now is add “–new-http –in-process-plugins” to the end of the launch command so it now looks like this:

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Google Chrome
Exec=env WINEPREFIX=”/home/memstat/.wine” wine “C:\\windows\\profiles\\memstat\\Local Settings\\Application Data\\Google\\Chrome\\Application\\chrome.exe” –new-http –in-process-plugins
Type=Application
StartupWMClass=Wine
Path=/home/memstat/.wine/dosdevices/c:/windows/profiles/memstat/Local Settings/Application Data/Google/Chrome/Application
Icon=c3e0_chrome.0
GenericName[en_US]=

Obviously “memstat” will be replaced with your user name.

Now save the file and then go to your desktop and launch the icon and see what Google has been working on.

~ Enjoy!