Google Chrome Error 0X00000005

Jamsi — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:49:38 +0000

You’ve heard the hype, seen the funky screenshots and want to get in on the action. So you download and install Google Chrome, only to find an error appear stating;

The application failed to initialize properly (0×00000005). Press Ok to terminate application.

Solution 1
This error is most likely caused due to your system not having the Microsoft.NET framework. Download it here.

Solution 2
It’s also been noted that this problem occurs to an issue with Chrome and Symantec Endpoint Protection. Try removing Symantec Endpoint Protection via the “Add/Remove Programs” control panel section, and see if the error goes away.

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Installing Google Chrome on Ubuntu Hardy

Jamsi — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 10:11:35 +0000

With the release of Google Chrome last week, it was interesting to see all the articles that popped up with Linux users installing Google Chrome (Which is a windows product at present) on Linux. The biggest problem I found was that you need the latest version of WINE to get this working, and no amount of “apt-get update | apt-get install wine” will work.

Updating WINE

The first step is to update your WINE version to 1.1.4.

wget -q http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/387EE263.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -

sudo wget http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/sources.list.d/hardy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/winehq.list

sudo apt-get update

Installing prerequisites

There’s a few software packages you need in order to get Chrome up and running. Winetricks is a script which allows you to quickly download necessary windows components.

Note: The last command below will install FIREFOX in WINE, you’ll see why in a second.

wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks

mv winetricks /usr/sbin/

winetricks riched20 riched30 flash msxml3 corefonts firefox

Installing Chrome

During the above process, you’ll be prompted to install FireFox 3. Proceed with the WINE installation of Firefox.
Note: Yes I know you can get around this step by not installing FireFox, but this way seems to the be the easiest way to do it.

Once Firefox is installed in Wine, RUN Firefox in WINE and visit

http://www.google.com/chrome/

Download Chrome and run the Chrome setup. It will proceed to download and install the Google Chrome browser. Once it’s complete, use the following command to run Chrome.

Running Google Chrome

wine “$HOME/.wine/drive_c/windows/profiles/$USER/Local Settings/Application Data/Google/Chrome/Application/chrome.exe” –no-sandbox –new-http

And there you have it. A fairly simple way to get Chrome up and running on Ubuntu Hardy.

Sources: Ubuntu Forums