Hello, regarding the following link

https://docs.slackware.com/howtos:so...:google_chrome

I tried an alternative approach and downloaded the .rpm file. Then I used rpm2tgz to create the package (google-chrome-stable_current_x86_64.tgz) and used installpkg to install it. To my surprise it works.

Has anyone tried this approach? Is it valid? Perhaps there sould be an addition to the documentation if it turns out to be a valid installation.

That's how I install all packages that come in rpm but not t[gx]z.

I use this script
https://gist.github.com/ruario/9672759

Since many of the Google antics are serious violations of open free, I'm not a fan of chrome or chromium and find GNU Icecat as fast as Chrome without all the screening and monitoring hooks that Google puts into Chrome. I only have Vivaldi as an alternative browser for my wife's backup profile on my Slackware64 14.2 and her access to HULU, since FSF and GNU-Icecat frown on DRM and the problems it creates trying to solve a simple issue of rights management. Cheers

well it all started yesterday when suddenly I got the message M7121-3078 from netflix on chromium. So I just wanted to experiment with the real chrome. And reading the documentation it said about downloading the .deb package, but it seems the .rpm package can do the job as well.
I am looking at icecat right now where widevine is not installed on purpose.
Regards, Apostolos.

*update: well all I had to do was to upgrade chromium and widevine plugin. I used slpkg (fantastic tool!!!) to get the packages from alien's repository and install-upgrade them. Anyways, probably I was too excited to see the rpm2tgz working with the chrome rpm package , thus this thread...