About Installing Google Chrome in Arch Linux

If you choose Chromium…
It’s easy to install Chromium, the most powerful browser from Google, in Arch Linux. Just make sure you have enabled “extra” repository in /etc/pacman.conf and type:

$ pacman -S chromium

all things done.

If you’d like to install Google Chrome Stable…
However, if you’d like it more stable, you can take a look in AUR. Of course it’s not provided by Arch Linux officially. The package I use is here:

google-chrome 16.0.912.75-1 by t3ddy
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=37469

Download the tarbell and untar it:

$ tar xzf google-chrome.tar.gz
$ cd google-chrome/

And then make package:

$ makepkg -s

You may see the makepkg script asking you to download required libraries. Confirm and continue. After running makepkg script, the current directory (google-chrome/) contains a few extra files, include “google-chrome-xx.x.xxx.xx-x-YOUR_ARCH.pkg.tar.xz”. Install it by pacman, for example in my case:

$ pacman -U google-chrome-16.0.912.75-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz

Confirm and install. Now you should see Google Chrome in gnome-shell (kde kickoff or something.)