How to install Chrome 78 browser on openSUSE 13.1

The version number of Chrome has been updated to above 100. However, the default repositories of openSUSE does not include the Chrome browser。We tried adding Chrome's repository to openSUSE via sudo zypper ar http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/x86_64 Google-Chrome
command.But it turned out that this repository only contains the latest version of Chrome, which cannot be installed into openSUSE.

Even if the installation is successful, the Chrome browser cannot be opened, and an xcb error is displayed through the background view.Then I try to install Chrome manually.

First, we need to download the Chrome rpm installation package from this website.I downloaded version 101 first.When I try to install chrome with sudo zypper in google-chrome-stable-101.0.4951.64-1.x86_64.rpm command, the system prompts that the nss version must be greater than or equal to 3.28, but the nss in openSUSE 13.1 is version 3.12.

Through searching, I found that some unofficial repositories of openSUSE 13.1 can solve this problem. Its nss supports up to 3.77. However, I chose 3.44. My experience tells me that updating spanning levels is easy to cause system crashes. My operation steps are as follows:

1. Open a terminal and type sudo zypper ar -f https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/draht:/131-compat/openSUSE_13.1/ mozilla-nss to add the unofficial repository to opensuse, then sudo zypper ref to reflesh the repositories.

2. Use sudo zypper in mozilla-nss-3.44-1.1.x86_64 to install the nss 3.44.

Now we can try to install Chrome 101 again,But the system prompts that xxx.rpm is missing, I got it from rpm.pbone.net and sudo zypper in xxx.rpm to install it.It is worth mentioning that we could not find the installation package of the openSUSE 13.1 version, but try to choose the installation package of the lower version of the openSUSE 13.2 that is similar to it.Other rpm package missing issues are resolved in this way.

Finally, we successfully installed Chrome 101, sadly, we still can't run it and still get the xcb error.

No, we can only install an earlier version of Chrome. As I tested, on this device (Panasonic CF-SX2), it supports up to Chrome 78.