Unpacks a Google Chrome rpm package into a version named directory and creates a startup script that will cause it to save its profile within this directory (Useful for testing).

README.md

This script converts a Google Chrome rpm package into standalone (portable) format. Usage example:

sh standalone-google-chrome.sh google-chrome-stable_current_x86_64.rpm

When the script is done you will have a suitably version named directory. You can run the copy of Google Chrome stored within it as follows:

google-chrome-stable-41.0.2272.118-1/run &

Copy or move the directory wherever you like.

standalone-google-chrome.sh

#!/bin/sh
if [ -z "$1" ]; then
  echo 'You must specify the path to a locally stored Google Chrome .rpm package.' >&2
  echo "Example usage: `basename $0` google-chrome-stable_current_x86_64.rpm" >&2
  exit 1
fi
if ! echo "$1" | grep -q 'google-chrome-.*\.rpm$'; then
  echo "$1 is not named like a Google Chrome .rpm package" >&2
  exit 1
fi
if [ ! -r "$1" ]; then
  echo "$1 is either not present or cannot be read" >&2
  exit 1
fi
outputdir="`head -c96 $1 | strings`"
mkdir -p "$outputdir" || exit 1
tail -c+`expr \`LANG=C grep -abom1 '.7zXZ' "$1" | cut -d: -f1\` + 1` "$1" | xz -d | (cd "$outputdir"; cpio --quiet -id)
cd "$outputdir"
# The SANDBOX section can be removed if you run Google Chrome 42+ and have a Linux kernel of 3.17 or newer (Ubuntu 14.10's 3.16 kernel will also work).
## SANDBOX BEGIN
_sandbox="`find opt -name chrome-sandbox -executable -type f -print`"
if [ -n "$CHROME_DEVEL_SANDBOX" ]; then
  rm "${_sandbox}"
elif [ -r /etc/os-release ] && grep -qx 'ID=\(ubuntu\|linuxmint\)' /etc/os-release; then
  echo "Calling sudo ... If prompted, please enter your password to give chrome-sandbox sufficient permissions to function as it should."
  sudo chown root:root ${_sandbox} && sudo chmod 4755 ${_sandbox}
else
  echo "Please enter your root password to give chrome-sandbox sufficient permissions to function as it should."
  su -c "sh -c \"chown root:root ${_sandbox} && chmod 4755 ${_sandbox} \""
fi
## SANDBOX END
printf '#!/bin/sh\nexec "${0%%/*}/'`find opt -name chrome -executable -type f -print`'" --user-data-dir="${0%%/*}/profile"  "$@"\n' > run
chmod 755 run
printf "\nThe directory $outputdir has been created, issue the following to start Google Chrome:\n"
printf "\n\t$outputdir/run &\n\n"