How to install Google Chrome on SUSE

Google Chrome is not installed by default in openSUSE and SLES and is not even available in the default zypper repository. It is probably due to Google Chrome being proprietary software.

Google, however, provides an rpm repository of Google Chrome for zypper. You can add the repository to zypper and then install Google Chrome using the zypper tool at the terminal.

1. Open Terminal from the application launcher.
2. Add Google-Chrome repository to zypper.

   > sudo zypper addrepo http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/x86_64 Google-Chrome
   [sudo] password for root: 
   Adding repository 'Google-Chrome' .......................................................[done]
   Repository 'Google-Chrome' successfully added
   
   URI         : http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/x86_64
   Enabled     : Yes
   GPG Check   : Yes
   Autorefresh : No
   Priority    : 99 (default priority)
   
   Repository priorities are without effect. All enabled repositories share the same priority.

3. Refresh zypper package list from the repository.

   > sudo zypper refresh
   Retrieving repository 'Google-Chrome' metadata ---------------------------------------------[\]
   Looking for gpg key ID 3CB3BD13 in cache /var/cache/zypp/pubkeys.
   Repository Google-Chrome does not define additional 'gpgkey=' URLs.
   Warning: File 'repomd.xml' from repository 'Google-Chrome' is signed with an unknown key '78BD65473CB3BD13'.
   
       Note: Signing data enables the recipient to verify that no modifications occurred after the
       data were signed. Accepting data with no, wrong or unknown signature can lead to a
       corrupted system and in extreme cases even to a system compromise.
   
       Note: File 'repomd.xml' is the repositories master index file. It ensures the integrity of
       the whole repo.
   
       Warning: We can't verify that no one meddled with this file, so it might not be trustworthy
       anymore! You should not continue unless you know it's safe.
   
   File 'repomd.xml' from repository 'Google-Chrome' is signed with an unknown key '78BD65473CB3BD13'. Continue? [yes/no] (no): yes

   Type yes and press Enter to continue.

4. Download public key for Google Chrome's repository.

   > wget https://dl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub
   --2020-05-17 09:15:03--  https://dl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub
   Resolving dl.google.com (dl.google.com)... 216.58.203.78, 2404:6800:4001:804::200e
   Connecting to dl.google.com (dl.google.com)|216.58.203.78|:443... connected.
   HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
   Length: 10218 (10.0K) [application/octet-stream]
   Saving to: ‘linux_signing_key.pub’
   
   linux_signing_key.pub   100%[==============================>]   9.98K  --.-KB/s    in 0.001s  
   
   2020-05-17 09:15:03 (13.7 MB/s) - ‘linux_signing_key.pub’ saved [10218/10218]

5. Import downloaded key to rpm.

   > sudo rpm --import linux_signing_key.pub
   warning: Rebuilding outdated index databases
   warning: Generating 18 missing index(es), please wait...
6. Install google-chrome package via zypper.

   > sudo zypper install --no-confirm google-chrome-stable
   Loading repository data...
   Reading installed packages...
   Resolving package dependencies...
   
   The following 5 NEW packages are going to be installed:
     google-chrome-stable libappindicator3-1 libdbusmenu-glib4 libdbusmenu-gtk3-4 libindicator3-7
   
   5 new packages to install.
   Overall download size: 63.9 MiB. Already cached: 0 B. After the operation, additional 225.0 MiB
   will be used.
   Continue? [y/n/v/...? shows all options] (y): y

7. Open google-chrome from the application launcher or terminal.
8. Select options to accept and click on the Ok button.
9. Start using Google Chrome on your openSUSE or SLES.