Crouton: C720 Cannot install because of google-chrome-stable dependencies

Created on 14 Feb 2014 · 9Comments · Source: dnschneid/crouton

I'm trying to install on a new Acer C720. I get the following error:

sudo sh -e ~/Downloads/crouton -u -t chrome,cinnamon -n cinnamon -r raring
/usr/local/chroots/cinnamon already exists; updating it...
Preparing chroot environment...
Installing croutonversion into the chroot...
Installing host-dbus into the chroot...
Installing host-x11 into the chroot...
Installing pulseaudio-default.pa into the chroot...
Installing brightness into the chroot...
Installing croutoncycle into the chroot...
Installing croutonpowerd into the chroot...
Installing croutonxinitrc-wrapper into the chroot...
Installing setres into the chroot...
Installing xinit into the chroot...
Installing xbindkeysrc.scm into the chroot...
Installing xserverrc-x11 into the chroot...
Installing xserverrc-local.example into the chroot...
Installing startcinnamon into the host...
Installing startcinnamon into the chroot...
Installing gnome-session-wrapper into the chroot...
Installing nm-applet.desktop into the chroot...
Installing enter-chroot into the host...
Installing delete-chroot into the host...
Installing edit-chroot into the host...
Installing mount-chroot into the host...
Installing unmount-chroot into the host...
Installing crash_reporter_wrapper into the host...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of google-chrome-stable:
 google-chrome-stable depends on gconf-service; however:
  Package gconf-service is not installed.
 google-chrome-stable depends on libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.12.4); however:
  Package libatk1.0-0 is not installed.
 google-chrome-stable depends on libcairo2 (>= 1.6.0); however:
  Package libcairo2 is not installed.
 google-chrome-stable depends on libcups2 (>= 1.4.0); however:
  Package libcups2 is not installed.
 google-chrome-stable depends on libgconf-2-4 (>= 2.31.1); however:
  Package libgconf-2-4 is not installed.
 google-chrome-stable depends on libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0); however:
  Package libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 is not installed.
 google-chrome-stable depends on libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.24.0); however:
  Package libgtk2.0-0 is not installed.
 google-chrome-stable depends on libnspr4 (>= 1.8.0.10); however:
  Package libnspr4 is not installed.
 google-chrome-stable depends on libnss3 (>= 3.14.3); however:
  Package libnss3 is not installed.
 google-c
dpkg: error processing google-chrome-stable (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 google-chrome-stable
Failed to complete chroot setup.
Unmounting /usr/local/chroots/cinnamon...

I can't figure out how to get into the chroot to fix the dependency. Any help? Thanks!

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mkdir /usr/share/icons/hicolor already solves the error. However IMO it would be better installing a window manager before installing chrome. For example by setting a priority variable for a window manager. This could be done in the target file. Then when installing targets look at the priority and install it in that order.
Edit: Thinking it over it should be in the name of the target files then. For example 10-xfce 20-chrome or something. Hmm in doubt if you would benefit a lot from it. It needs some code changes and renaming of files.
Just make the dir or install hicolor theme is the fastest and easiest fix.

divx118 on 17 Feb 2014

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I can confirm this error. Chrome target is the bad guy. I had it also on creating a saucy chroot with xfce. Sadly I didn't have time yet to look into it. Just did a quick workaround and installed chrome from within the chroot.

divx118 on 14 Feb 2014

Weird. dpkg should report those errors, but it's being run as --force-depends and so it should still be successful (install -f cleans up after it). If you can, edit the generated prepare.sh, find the line that has --force-depends in it, then make the line look like dpkg --force-depends -i "$@" || true, enter the chroot and say "yes" to finishing the installation, and see how it goes.

dnschneid on 14 Feb 2014

@dnschneid tried it, but still the same dependency problems. I see if I have some time tomorrow after work to look deeper into why it is failing.

divx118 on 14 Feb 2014

I've been running into this for awhile now, it happens with chrome-beta too, maybe dev also. I thought I'd reported it but maybe not. I usully just install the chroot without chrome and then install it in the chroot later.

DennisLfromGA on 14 Feb 2014

Ok, I think I found it. I took another look at the failure log of mine and noticed the following after the dependency errors.

xdg-icon-resource: No writable system icon directory found

If you add the wm manager like xfce, cinnamon etc at the first place in your target like

sudo sh -e ~/Downloads/crouton -r saucy -t xfce,chrome -n xfce

Chrome should be installed with no problems.

divx118 on 16 Feb 2014

Good find, thanx; I'll use that sequence in the future.
With that in mind, it would make sense that once a chroot is installed, chrome could be added with a crouton update - I'll try it.

DennisLfromGA on 16 Feb 2014

I just successfully added chrome-beta to an existing chroot via a crouton update so that does work - good to know.

DennisLfromGA on 16 Feb 2014

@divx118 Thanks for figuring out where the error comes from. Any idea which package calls xdg-icon-resource? Is it chrome itself? Or another dependency?

Looking at http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-utils/tree/scripts/xdg-icon-resource.in, the script is failing because $xdg_global_dir is not set. In turn, this variable is blank because /usr/share/icons/$theme does not exists ($theme default value is hicolor).

I suspect we could fix the problem by installing hicolor-icon-theme before Chrome. Can somebody confirm that the package is pulled in by xfce or other WM/DE? If not, what other package is pulled in that create files in /usr/share/icons/?