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Chrome-appimage

Unofficial AppImages of Google Chrome Stable, Beta and Unstable.

NOTE: This wrapper is not verified by, affiliated with, or supported by Google.

Why AppImages?

I chose this format because it takes up half the disk space of the deb archive when unpacked. Furthermore, AppImages have the particularity of being able to be isolated in a customized $HOME folder (just create one with the same name as the AppImage and with the ".home" extension), preventing the cursed dotfiles from dirtying the main $HOME folder.

Not to mention that AppImages are portable, you can put them on a USB stick and you can use them wherever you want.

What means Unofficial?

It means that if you want the version developed by the main creator of the software (ie Google) you have to go download and install the deb or rpm package officially released by them.

My versions of Chrome in Appimage format, even if they work, do not guarantee the 100% compatibility that the software from the manufacturer's website can guarantee. It requires additional dependencies, while in my case it was enough for me to extract the deb package and start the program inside it normally, and everything worked (but of course everything depends on your use case). If this package works for you you are welcome to use it at your own risk.

What each AppImage contains?

Only the content of /opt/google/chrome*, in addition there are the desktop file, the icon and the AppRun needed to bundle the AppImage.

To extract the packages do:

chmod a+x ./*AppImage
./*AppImage --appimage-extract

Here are the sources of the deb packages used in these three AppImages:

Stable https://www.google.com/chrome/
Beta https://www.google.com/chrome/beta/
Unstable/Dev https://www.google.com/chrome/dev/

Install and update them all with ease

"AM" Application Manager

Package manager, database & solutions for all AppImages and portable apps for GNU/Linux!

"AM"/"AppMan" is a set of scripts and modules for installing, updating, and managing AppImage packages and other portable formats, in the same way that APT manages DEBs packages, DNF the RPMs, and so on... using a large database of Shell scripts inspired by the Arch User Repository, each dedicated to an app or set of applications.

The engine of "AM"/"AppMan" is the "APP-MANAGER" script which, depending on how you install or rename it, allows you to install apps system-wide (for a single system administrator) or locally (for each user).

"AM"/"AppMan" aims to be the default package manager for all AppImage packages, giving them a home to stay.

You can consult the entire list of managed apps at portable-linux-apps.github.io/apps.

Go to https://github.com/ivan-hc/AM* for more!*

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won't run (fuse error)

I have about thirty other AppImages that all run without any issues, but (first time I tried this AppImage):

$ /tmp/Google-Chrome-Stable-125.0.6422.112-1-x86_64.AppImage 
fuse: failed to exec fusermount: Permission denied

Cannot mount AppImage, please check your FUSE setup.
You might still be able to extract the contents of this AppImage 
if you run it with the --appimage-extract option. 
See https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit/wiki/FUSE 
for more information
open dir error: No such file or directory

$ qlist -Iv fuse
sys-fs/fuse-3.16.2
sys-fs/fuse-2.9.9-r2
sys-fs/fuse-common-3.10.4

$ which fusermount
/usr/bin/fusermount

$ ls -al /usr/bin/fusermount*
-rws--x--x 1 root root 35424 2022-11-30 07:12:21 /usr/bin/fusermount*
-rws--x--x 1 root root 34760 2023-12-18 23:25:57 /usr/bin/fusermount3*

Any ideas about what might cause this?

Consider contributing to https://appimage.github.io/

Hey, your AppImages are excellent and work without flaws. I'm impressed with the browser appimages the most because most of the time they just are not up to spec, but yours are.

Consider contributing here, I'm sure it will be appreciated.

Google Chrome error Lubuntu 24.04

I installed Google-Chrome using appman, it won't run. In the terminal I get the following error:

[8896:8896:0507/112011.831106:FATAL:setuid_sandbox_host.cc(158)] The SUID sandbox helper binary was found, but is not configured correctly. Rather than run without sandboxing I'm aborting now. You need to make sure that /tmp/.mount_googlePHbmjo/chrome-sandbox is owned by root and has mode 4755.

Please help me fix this, thank you very much.

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