Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Enable Chrome browser in BT5R2

I am currently deployed over seas so the posts to this blog have not come nearly as fast as I had imagined they would when I started this project. This post mostly serves as a reminder for myself on how to fix this issue next time apt-update update's my chrome browser. Anyways with out further adduce:

If you enjoy using BT5 and chrome, it probably didn't take you very long to realize that the two weren't made for each other. Chrome refuses to be ran in root, and well.... BT5 is all root all the time. This conflict can be overcame by making a small addition to the google-chrome file in you /urs/bin directory:
gedit /usr/bin google-chrome


Add: --user-data-dir
To the end of the file on the last line so that it reads like this:
exec -a "$0" "$HERE/chrome" "$@" --user-data-dir 
Save, close, and enjoy.

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