I've had this LMDE for, oh, several years now and the only thing I haven't been able to make work so far is Chrome browser. I tried to install it from Package Manager and official Google site and while the app icon appears, when I click on it, nothing happens. I use Firefox as my browser but occasionally need Chrome to test my web apps I am developing, since it's better for developer to test in different browsers. BTW Opera installed just fine.
So the problem when I try to run chrome, from shell for example, is this:
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me@localhost:/usr/bin$ cd /opt/google/chrome/
me@localhost:/opt/google/chrome$ ./google-chrome
[29001:29001:0202/162050:ERROR:master_preferences.cc(104)] Failed to read master_preferences file at /opt/google/chrome/master_preferences. Falling back to default preferences.
[29001:29001:0202/162052:ERROR:shared_memory_posix.cc(171)] Creating shared memory in /dev/shm/.com.google.Chrome.OyUVlM failed: No such file or directory
[29001:29001:0202/162052:ERROR:shared_memory_posix.cc(174)] Unable to access(W_OK|X_OK) /dev/shm: No such file or directory
[29001:29001:0202/162052:FATAL:shared_memory_posix.cc(176)] This is frequently caused by incorrect permissions on /dev/shm. Try 'sudo chmod 1777 /dev/shm' to fix.
Aborted
me@localhost:/opt/google/chrome$ sudo chmod 1777 /dev/shm
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chmod: cannot operate on dangling symlink `/dev/shm'
I really have ran out of options on what to do. I considered compiling Chrome from source but Chrome source files I saw were like 2GB or 400MB, which didn't seem right, and I doubt that would work anyways.
Does anybody know what could the problem be and how I could solve it?
Thanks,
Victor.