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DanYHKim · Joined: 14 Sep 2008 Posts: 103

I am running Lucid 5.2.8 on a Motion M1300 tablet. My wife wanted to be able to read Kindle books using their Cloud Reader in Chrome, but I couldn't make it work with a new Chrome install. It was driving me nuts.

(Needed a new install because the .pet for Chrome does not support offline reading)

Installed Chrome 25.0.1364172 (google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb)
Installed puppy-gc-001.pet

Made relative symlink from /opt/google/chrome of "product_logo_48.png" to /usr/share/pixmaps

Made a script to put in /usr/bin called "chrome_noroot" that has:

psfal · Joined: 24 Jul 2013 Posts: 7

Command not found

Semme · Joined: 07 Aug 2011 Posts: 8021 Location: World_Hub

Psfal- I thought you said you'd try Fatdog?

disciple · Posted: Mon 29 Jul 2013, 06:24 Post subject:

Neat. This could do with a wiki page listing offending applications that it works with (and any super offensive ones that it doesn't, if there are any) Smile

disciple · Posted: Mon 29 Jul 2013, 06:47 Post subject:

psfal · Joined: 24 Jul 2013 Posts: 7

I tried, some of the code must be missing, I'm not a nuts & bolts guy, so if something else is needed to run those commands, I don't know what it is

psfal · Joined: 24 Jul 2013 Posts: 7

@Semme, I am trying Fatdog, it's being vague, and actually minus the chromium "run as root" issue, Puppy is more cooperative with much more available software...

disciple · Posted: Mon 29 Jul 2013, 21:28 Post subject:

greengeek · Posted: Mon 29 Jul 2013, 22:32 Post subject:

disciple · Posted: Thu 01 Aug 2013, 02:05 Post subject:

disciple · Posted: Wed 06 Nov 2013, 21:41 Post subject:

FWIW I can also get rid of an offensive running as root warning in mousepad by overriding geteuid. But it causes this error message, although I don't know what actual adverse effects there are:

technosaurus · Joined: 18 May 2008 Posts: 4872 Location: Blue Springs, MO

I had done something similar but figured out that if you are careful and replace N characters with N characters (otherwise you mess up the GOT), you can use sed to change the binary itself ...

Direxion · Joined: 24 Jan 2012 Posts: 2 Location: North Texas

Thanks! I also got the "can't run as root" message after installing Chrome (Version 31.0.1650.4 Cool

and the puppy-gc-001 pet worked. However I did have to modify /usr/bin/puppy-chrome line 3 to "google chrome-stable" to match the package. So far Chrome seems to be running fine however after launching I did get this:

http://i783.photobucket.com/albums/yy112/ldctbf/capture1053.png

which apparently means that Chrome will not be able to update. I probably won't use it then for very long but it was a fun exercise.

Mike Walsh · Joined: 28 Jun 2014 Posts: 5623 Location: King's Lynn, UK.

Thanks for this, iguleder. Still works perfectly.....and even better now that peebee's converted 'libpuppygc.so' to 64-bit.

Current 64-bit Chrome works a treat with this...and I shall know exactly what to do with future Iron and SlimJet builds, when they begin basing them on Chrome 56 or later.

(*Take that, Google...!*) Nice one.

Many, many thanks. Cheers!

Mike. Very Happy

slavvo67 · Joined: 12 Oct 2012 Posts: 1616 Location: The other Mr. 305

How do you amend this for another application, such as Iron?

Also, I tried to package the puppy-chrome pet with a downloaded chrome but when I installed the combined pet, I received the running as root error.... Do you know of a way to overcome this or does Chrome need to be packages separately from your pet in order for the Chrome as Root to work? The reasoning behind trying to package together is for easier install via WoofQ.

Thanks,

Slavvo67