Difference between revisions of "Google Chrome"

From WPKG | Open Source Software Deployment and Distribution
Jump to: navigation, search
(Moved Disabling Updates section to where it's more easily found)
(Improvements to the leader & moving a link down to External Links)
Line 1: Line 1:
−
Chrome is a web browser from Google.
+
Chrome is a web browser from Google. You can download the current stable version in an MSI installer, Chrome for Business, from http://www.google.com/chrome/eula.html?msi=true&platform=win or http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/business/browser/.
−
 
+
−
Watch the [http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/ Google Chrome Releases] blog for info about new versions.
+
−
 
+
−
== Download ==
+
−
 
+
−
You can download the current stable version of Google Chrome as an MSI file from http://www.google.com/chrome/eula.html?msi=true&platform=win.
+
  
 
== Note for Remote Desktop Services ==
 
== Note for Remote Desktop Services ==
Line 528: Line 522:
  
 
==External Links==
 
==External Links==
 +
* [http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/ Google Chrome Releases] - info about new versions
 
* [http://chrome.blogspot.com/2010/12/chrome-is-ready-for-business.html '''chrome.blogspot.com''': Announcement of support for enterprise *level deployment]
 
* [http://chrome.blogspot.com/2010/12/chrome-is-ready-for-business.html '''chrome.blogspot.com''': Announcement of support for enterprise *level deployment]
 
* [http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/chromebrowser.html '''www.google.com''': Download business version of Chrome (msi) for deployment]
 
* [http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/chromebrowser.html '''www.google.com''': Download business version of Chrome (msi) for deployment]

Revision as of 11:39, 7 November 2013

Chrome is a web browser from Google. You can download the current stable version in an MSI installer, Chrome for Business, from http://www.google.com/chrome/eula.html?msi=true&platform=win or http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/business/browser/.

Note for Remote Desktop Services

Windows Server 2008 R2 has a new feature called Windows Installer RDS Compatibility. This feature is enabled by default when using Remote Desktop Services and will cause some MSI installers to hang. When run through WPKG the install process will appear to never finish. When run with the same parameters from a command-line you'll see a Windows Installer dialog that asks you to wait and a progress bar that repeatedly completes and restarts. To successfully install Chrome on an RDS server you need to a registry key to disable this feature: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\Terminal Services\TSAppSrv\TSMSI, add a DWORD called Enable set to zero. The keys TSAppSrv and TSMSI probably won't exist and need to be created.

  • update* If you don't feel safe messing with the registry then you can also change

Start>control panel> search for install application on remote desktop. Browse to the msi file listed above.

Start>run>MMC.exe addin> Group Policy ObjectEditor \Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Remote Desktop Services\Remote Desktop Session Host\Application Compatibility – Turn off Windows Installer RDS Compatibility

Turn back on after you're done...

just in case that doesn't work... I had changed the policy while it was stalling on the please wait... and MAKE SURE noone installed chrome on their profile... you can only see their chrome in add/remove programs on their profile This worked for me

Google Chrome 21

The Google Chrome installer (chrome_installer.exe) installs per-user. To install it system-wide (into the %PROGRAMFILES% directory), use Chrome for Business (GoogleChromeStandaloneEnterprise.msi).

Chrome shows an unrelated product version in Uninstall Programs, so the package definition checks only that it is present and then checks the actual version against chrome.exe.

Chrome can be updated while it's running, but the changes won't happen until the running process is closed. 

<package
  id="chrome"
  name="Chrome"
  revision="%version%"
  reboot="false">
		
  <variable name="version" value="21.0.1180.83" />
  <variable architecture="x86" name="progfiles" value="%PROGRAMFILES%" />
  <variable architecture="x64" name="progfiles" value="%PROGRAMFILES(X86)%" />
		
  <check
    type="uninstall"
    condition="exists"
    path="Google Chrome" />
  <check
    type="file"
    condition="versionequalto"
    path="%progfiles%\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe"
    value="%version%" />

  <install cmd="taskkill /F /IM chrome.exe">
    <exit code="any" />
  </install>
  <install cmd='msiexec /qn /norestart /i "%SOFTWARE%\chrome\GoogleChromeStandaloneEnterprise.msi"' />

  <upgrade cmd="taskkill /F /IM chrome.exe">
    <exit code="any" />
  </upgrade>
  <upgrade cmd='msiexec /qn /norestart /i "%SOFTWARE%\chrome\GoogleChromeStandaloneEnterprise.msi"' />
		
  <remove cmd="taskkill /F /IM chrome.exe">
    <exit code="any" />
  </remove>
  <remove cmd='msiexec /qn /x {24669440-71E7-3195-B311-D88EC4078099}' />
</package>


Disabling Updates

See [1].

Windows Registry

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Update\Update{4DC8B4CA-1BDA-483E-B5FA-D3C12E15B62D}=REG_DWORD:0

WPKG

    <package id="google-chrome-pol-no.update"
            name="Google Chrome (Policy) - Disable updates"
            revision="1"
            reboot="false"
            priority="1">

        <depends package-id="google-chrome"/>

        <variable name="PKG_KEY"           value="HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Update"/>
        <variable name="PKG_VALUE"         value="Update{4DC8B4CA-1BDA-483E-B5FA-D3C12E15B62D}"/>
        <variable name="PKG_DATA"          value="0"/>

        <check type="registry" condition="equals" path="%PKG_KEY%\%PKG_VALUE%" value="%PKG_DATA%" />

        <install cmd='reg add %PKG_KEY% /v %PKG_VALUE% /d %PKG_DATA% /t REG_DWORD /f'/>

        <upgrade include="install" />

        <remove cmd='reg delete %PKG_KEY% /v %PKG_VALUE% /f'/>
    </package>

Automated Updates of Chrome's WPKG Files

This is a VBScript we run on our WPKG server that downloads the current Chrome MSI, renames it according to the Chrome release number, and updates the package XML files accordingly. This greatly simplifies rolling out new versions of Chrome: we watch the Google Chrome Releases RSS feed, and anytime we see a stable channel update, we run our VBScript. It's been working since April, for Chrome releases 18 through 21.

update-chrome.vbs

' update-chrome.vbs -- stored in %SOFTWARE%\google-chrome
Option Explicit
Dim objFSO, objFile, strFileProperties, objShell, strChromePath, strChromeURL
Dim strVersion, objResult, strChromeFilename, objOleFile, arrComments
Dim strTemplateFilename, ForReading, ForWriting, strText
Dim strNewText

strChromePath = "L:\wpkg\software\google-chrome\"
strChromeFilename = "GoogleChromeStandaloneEnterprise.msi"
strTemplateFilename = "google-chrome-template.xml"
strChromeURL = "https://dl.google.com/edgedl/chrome/install/" & _
	strChromeFilename

Set objShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set objOleFile = CreateObject("DSOFile.OleDocumentProperties")

objShell.CurrentDirectory = strChromePath
' wget downloaded from http://users.ugent.be/~bpuype/wget/
objResult = objShell.Run("wget --no-check-certificate " & strChromeURL, _
	1, True)
If objFSO.FileExists(strChromePath & strChromeFilename) Then
	' Grab version number. Requires Office installation, or DSOFile.dll
	' from http://support.microsoft.com/kb/224351
	objOleFile.Open(strChromePath & strChromeFilename)
	arrComments = Split(objOleFile.SummaryProperties.Comments, " ", 2)
	strVersion = arrComments(0)
	objOleFile.Close

	' Make a copy of the file
	Set objFile = objFSO.GetFile(strChromePath & strChromeFilename)
	objFile.Copy strChromePath & "GoogleChromeStandaloneEnterprise-" & _
		strVersion & ".msi", True
	' Delete the original file
	objFile.Delete True
	' Update package definitions
	updateXML strTemplateFilename, _
		"..\..\packages\google-chrome.xml" ' legacy tree
	updateXML strTemplateFilename, _
		"..\..\dev\packages\google-chrome.xml" ' dev tree
	updateXML strTemplateFilename, _
		"..\..\stable\packages\google-chrome.xml" ' stable tree
Else
	MsgBox "Selected file does not exist!"
End If

Sub updateXML(strTemplateFilename, strPackageFilename)
	' Update package definition
	ForReading = 1
	ForWriting = 2
	Set objFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile(strTemplateFilename, ForReading)
	strText = objFile.ReadAll
	objFile.Close
	strNewText = Replace(strText, "__VERSION__", strVersion)

	Set objFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile(strPackageFilename, ForWriting)
	objFile.WriteLine strNewText
	objFile.Close
End Sub

google-chrome-template.xml

<!--
Thie file generated from %SOFTWARE%\google-chrome\update-chrome.vbs and google-chrome-template.xml
Manual edits to packages\google-chrome.xml will be overwritten.
-->
<packages>
<package
  id="google-chrome"
  name="Google Chrome"
  revision="%version%"
  reboot="false">
 
  <variable name="version" value="__VERSION__" />
  <variable architecture="x86" name="progfiles" value="%PROGRAMFILES%" />
  <variable architecture="x64" name="progfiles" value="%PROGRAMFILES(X86)%" />
 
  <check
    type="uninstall"
    condition="exists"
    path="Google Chrome" />
  <check
    type="file"
    condition="versionequalto"
    path="%progfiles%\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe"
    value="%version%" />
 
  <install cmd="taskkill /F /IM chrome.exe">
    <exit code="any" />
  </install>
  <install cmd='msiexec /qn /norestart /i "%SOFTWARE%\google-chrome\GoogleChromeStandaloneEnterprise-%version%.msi"' />
 
  <upgrade include='install' />
 
  <remove cmd="taskkill /F /IM chrome.exe">
    <exit code="any" />
  </remove>
  <remove cmd='msiexec /qn /x "%SOFTWARE%\google-chrome\GoogleChromeStandaloneEnterprise-%version%.msi"' />
</package>
</packages>

--Mwr 17:05, 10 August 2012 (CEST)

update-chrome-xml.sh

Just to get an idea how this can be done using bash scripting if your wpkg share is on linux using samba, here is my script which checks if there is a newer version of google chrome. Only then it copies the msi file and creates new xml file from template. It substitutes the __VERSION__ and __MSIKEY__ strings, which are extracted from the msi file. Seems like a quick hack to get the strings out of the MSI file, at least it works at the moment. 

#!/bin/bash

# source: http://wpkg.org/Google_Chrome#Automated_Updates_of_Chrome.27s_WPKG_Files
#

MAINPATH=/srv/share/install
TMPPATH=$MAINPATH/temp
DESTPATH=$MAINPATH/packages/GoogleChrome
TEMPLATE=$MAINPATH/packages/Templates/googlechrome.xml
FILENAME=googlechrome.xml
TEMPFILE=$TMPPATH/$FILENAME
DESTFILE=$MAINPATH/packages/$FILENAME

DLFILE=GoogleChromeStandaloneEnterprise
DLSOURCE=https://dl.google.com/edgedl/chrome/install/$DLFILE.msi


cd $TMPPATH
rm $DLFILE.msi
/usr/bin/wget --no-check-certificate $DLSOURCE

RAWSTRINGS=`/usr/bin/strings $DLFILE.msi | /bin/grep -EC3 "^Installer$" | tr "\n" " " `

for k in ${RAWSTRINGS} ; do
    unset SUBSTRING1; unset SUBSTRING2 ;
    SUBSTRING1=`expr match "$k" '\([[:digit:].]\{12,16\}\)' `
    if [ -n "${SUBSTRING1}" ] ; then
       GCVERSION="$SUBSTRING1";
       break
    fi
done
for k in ${RAWSTRINGS} ; do
    SUBSTRING2=`expr match "$k" '{\([[:alnum:]-]\{36\}\)}' `
    if [ -n "$SUBSTRING2" ] ; then
       GCMSIKEY=$SUBSTRING2;
       break
    fi
done

echo Version: $GCVERSION
echo Key: $GCMSIKEY

    if [ -z "$GCVERSION" ] ; then
       echo no version found
       exit 2
    fi
# create xml file from template

sed -e "s/__VERSION__/${GCVERSION}/" <$TEMPLATE  | sed -e "s/__MSIKEY__/${GCMSIKEY}/"  >$TEMPFILE

diff -wB $TEMPLATE  $TEMPFILE >/dev/null

if [ $? -eq 0 ] ; then
    # version  not changed
    echo string error
    exit 1
fi

diff -wB $TEMPFILE $DESTFILE >/dev/null

if [ $? -eq 0 ] ; then
    # no difference
    echo not newer
    rm $DLFILE.msi
    exit 0
fi

   echo copying files

mv $DLFILE.msi $DESTPATH/$DLFILE-$GCVERSION.msi
cp $TEMPFILE $DESTFILE

--Ftrojahn 12:09, 08 October 2013 (CEST)

Older Versions

Google Chrome 18

Chrome shows an unrelated product version in Uninstall Programs, so the package definition checks only that it is present and then checks the actual version against chrome.exe.

Chrome can be updated while it's running, but the changes won't happen until the running process is closed. 

<package
  id="chrome"
  name="Chrome"
  revision="%version%"
  reboot="false">
		
  <variable name="version" value="18.0.1025.162" />
  <variable architecture="x86" name="progfiles" value="%PROGRAMFILES%" />
  <variable architecture="x64" name="progfiles" value="%PROGRAMFILES(X86)%" />
		
  <check
    type="uninstall"
    condition="exists"
    path="Google Chrome" />
  <check
    type="file"
    condition="versionequalto"
    path="%progfiles%\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe"
    value="%version%" />

  <install cmd="taskkill /F /IM chrome.exe">
    <exit code="any" />
  </install>
  <install cmd='msiexec /qn /norestart /i "%SOFTWARE%\chrome\GoogleChromeStandaloneEnterprise-%version%.msi"' />

  <upgrade cmd="taskkill /F /IM chrome.exe">
    <exit code="any" />
  </upgrade>
  <upgrade cmd='msiexec /qn /norestart /i "%SOFTWARE%\chrome\GoogleChromeStandaloneEnterprise-%version%.msi"' />
		
  <remove cmd="taskkill /F /IM chrome.exe">
    <exit code="any" />
  </remove>
  <remove cmd='msiexec /qn /x {E59AB510-8AEA-36BC-91D5-B25791AD224F}' />
</package>

Google Chrome 16

Chrome shows an unrelated product version in Uninstall Programs, so the package definition checks only that it is present and then checks the actual version against chrome.exe.

Chrome can be updated while it's running, but the changes won't happen until the running process is closed.

Note that Windows Server 2008 R2 has a new feature called Windows Installer RDS Compatibility. This feature is enabled by default when using Remote Desktop Services and will cause some MSI installers to hang. When run through WPKG the install process will appear to never finish. When run with the same parameters from a command-line you'll see a Windows Installer dialog that asks you to wait and a progress bar that repeatedly completes and restarts. To successfully install Chrome on an RDS server you need to a registry key to disable this feature: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\Terminal Services\TSAppSrv\TSMSI, add a DWORD called Enable set to zero. The keys TSAppSrv and TSMSI probably won't exist and need to be created. 

<package
  id="chrome"
  name="Chrome"
  revision="%version%"
  reboot="false">
		
  <variable name="version" value="16.0.912.77" />
  <variable architecture="x86" name="progfiles" value="%PROGRAMFILES%" />
  <variable architecture="x64" name="progfiles" value="%PROGRAMFILES(X86)%" />
		
  <check
    type="uninstall"
    condition="exists"
    path="Google Chrome" />
  <check
    type="file"
    condition="versionequalto"
    path="%progfiles%\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe"
    value="%version%" />
		
  <install cmd="taskkill /F /IM chrome.exe">
    <exit code="any" />
  </install>
  <install cmd='msiexec /qn /norestart /i "%SOFTWARE%\chrome\GoogleChromeStandaloneEnterprise-%version%.msi"' />

  <upgrade cmd="taskkill /F /IM chrome.exe">
    <exit code="any" />
  </upgrade>
  <upgrade cmd='msiexec /qn /norestart /i "%SOFTWARE%\chrome\GoogleChromeStandaloneEnterprise-%version%.msi"' />
		
  <remove cmd="taskkill /F /IM chrome.exe">
    <exit code="any" />
  </remove>
  <remove cmd='msiexec /qn /x {368673BE-F66E-3BB4-832C-8EAF0B4AF939}' />
</package>

Google Chrome 15

This is a silent installer and uninstaller for Google Chrome with support for 32-bit and 64-bit systems. 

 <package id="chrome" name="Google Chrome" revision="%version%" priority="20" reboot="false">

        <variable name="version" value="15.0.874.120" />

        <check type="uninstall" condition="exists" path="Google Chrome" />

        <check type="logical" condition="or">
            <check type="file" condition="exists" path="%PROGRAMFILES%\Google\Chrome\Application\11.0.696.57\nacl64.exe" />
            <check type="file" condition="exists" path="%PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\Google\Chrome\Application\11.0.696.57\nacl64.exe" />
        </check>

        <install cmd='msiexec /qn /norestart /i "%SOFTWARE%\chrome\GoogleChromeStandaloneEnterprise.msi"' />

        <upgrade cmd='msiexec /qn /norestart /i "%SOFTWARE%\chrome\GoogleChromeStandaloneEnterprise.msi"' />

        <remove cmd="msiexec /qn /x {54DF35BD-4A36-35DA-B029-A0C083C88614}" />
 </package>


Google Chrome 11

This is a silent installer and uninstaller for Google Chrome with support for 32-bit and 64-bit systems. 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<packages>
<package id="chrome" name="Google Chrome 11" revision="11.0.696.57" priority="20" reboot="false">

        <check type="uninstall" condition="exists" path="Google Chrome" />

        <check type="logical" condition="or">
            <check type="file" condition="exists" path="%PROGRAMFILES%\Google\Chrome\Application\11.0.696.57\nacl64.exe" />
            <check type="file" condition="exists" path="%PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\Google\Chrome\Application\11.0.696.57\nacl64.exe" />
        </check>

        <install cmd='msiexec /qn /norestart /i "%SOFTWARE%\chrome\GoogleChromeStandaloneEnterprise.msi"' />

        <upgrade cmd='msiexec /qn /norestart /i "%SOFTWARE%\chrome\GoogleChromeStandaloneEnterprise.msi"' />

        <remove cmd="msiexec /qn /x {54DF35BD-4A36-35DA-B029-A0C083C88614}" />
    </package>
</packages>


Google Chrome 10

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<packages>
   <package id="chrome" name="Google Chrome" revision="10.0.648.205" reboot="false" priority="2" >

    <check type="uninstall" condition="exists" path="Google Chrome"/>

    <check type="file" condition="exists" path="%PROGRAMFILES%\Google\Chrome\Application\10.0.648.205\nacl64.exe" />

    <install cmd='%SOFTWARE%\chrome\chrome_installer.exe --system-level --do-not-launch-chrome'/>

    <upgrade cmd='%SOFTWARE%\chrome\chrome_installer.exe --system-level --do-not-launch-chrome'/>

    <remove cmd='%SOFTWARE%\chrome\chrome_installer.exe --uninstall --force-uninstall --system-level'/>
   </package>
</packages>


Google Chrome 9

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<packages>

  <package id="chrome" name="Google Chrome 9" revision="9.2.21854" reboot="false" priority="20">

    <check type="uninstall" condition="exists" path="Google Chrome"/>

    <check type="file" condition="exists" path="%PROGRAMFILES%\Google\Chrome\Application\9.0.597.94\nacl64.exe" />
 
    <install cmd='msiexec /qn /norestart /i "%SOFTWARE%\chrome\GoogleChrome.msi"' />

    <upgrade cmd='msiexec /qn /norestart /i "%SOFTWARE%\chrome\GoogleChrome.msi"' />

    <remove  cmd='msiexec /qn /x {54DF35BD-4A36-35DA-B029-A0C083C88614}' />
  </package>
</packages>


Google Chrome 7.0

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<packages>
   <package id="chrome" name="Google Chrome" revision="1" reboot="false" priority="2" >

    <check type="uninstall" condition="exists" path="Google Chrome"/>

    <check type="file" condition="exists" path="%PROGRAMFILES%\Google\Chrome\Application\7.0.517.41\nacl64.exe" />

    <install cmd='%SOFTWARE%\chrome\chrome_installer.exe --system-level --do-not-launch-chrome'/>

    <upgrade cmd='%SOFTWARE%\chrome\chrome_installer.exe --system-level --do-not-launch-chrome'/>

    <remove cmd='%SOFTWARE%\chrome\chrome_installer.exe --uninstall --force-uninstall --system-level'/>
   </package>
</packages>


Google Chrome 5.0

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<packages
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="../xsd/packages.xsd" >

   <package id="chrome" name="Google Chrome" revision="1" reboot="false" priority="2" >

    <check type="uninstall" condition="exists" path="Google Chrome"/>

    <check type="file" condition="exists" path="%PROGRAMFILES%\Google\Chrome\Application\5.0.375.70\nacl64.exe" />

    <install cmd='%SOFTWARE%\chrome\chrome_installer.exe --system-level --do-not-launch-chrome'/>

    <upgrade cmd='%SOFTWARE%\chrome\chrome_installer.exe --system-level --do-not-launch-chrome'/>

    <remove cmd='%SOFTWARE%\chrome\chrome_installer.exe --uninstall --force-uninstall --system-level'/>
   </package>
</packages>

External Links

Retrieved from "https://wpkg.org/index.php?title=Google_Chrome&oldid=11796"