I terribly fear that my marriage would be a business deal..

I mean no..not like that..my parents are not business people..

But still they think of marriage as practical thing..just like education..no emo attached...

Like said below..

Until recently, Indian marriages had all the trappings of a business transaction involving two deal-making families, a hardboiled matchmaker and a vocal board of shareholders - concerned uncles and aunts. The couple was almost incidental to the deal. They just dressed and showed up for the wedding ceremony. And after that the onus was on them to adjust to the 1,001 relatives, get to know each other and make the marriage work.

—Lavina Melwani, ^[104]

I don't know what the heck my parents  think about this..neither I can talk to 'em about it as they might think that it is my approval to get married..

Yikes...

And even worse is I'll be going to some another home..

What the fuck!!!!!!!

I sincerely hate all these kind of things...

puppet show, sarees, makeup, jewels, diamonds, sherwanis, and pathetic rituals and customs...and not to mention dowry...

Living sucks..

How to install Chrome in OpenSUSE 11.4

Now this is something I think of achievement in itself..
Installing Google Chrome on OpenSuSe..
Here is how it goes..
Before downloading, see whether your processor is 32-bit or 64-bit..
Open terminal and enter

linux-3y8t:~ # uname -i

If you get output as i386, download the 32-bit version, otherwise 64-bit version.

After completing the download, in the terminal, go to the directory where the repo is downloaded and enter

linux-3y8t:~/Downloads # rpm -ivh google-chrome-stable_current_i386.rpm

If after entering this command, you come across error message like this,


warning: google-chrome-stable_current_i386.rpm: Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 7fac5991: NOKEY
error: Failed dependencies:
        lsb >= 4.0 is needed by google-chrome-stable-25.0.1364.172-187217.i386

Enter

linux-3y8t:~/Downloads # zypper install lsb

This command will install the lsb package required.
Having done that, enter this command again


linux-3y8t:~/Downloads # rpm -ivh google-chrome-stable_current_i386.rpm 

It'll show you output like this:

warning: google-chrome-stable_current_i386.rpm: Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 7fac5991: NOKEY

Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]

   1:google-chrome-stable   ########################################### [100%]

Starting service at daemon                                            done

Now enter the following commands one by one if you want to be able to watch Youtube videos in Chrome

linux-3y8t:~/Downloads # mkdir /opt/google/chrome/plugins

linux-3y8t:~ # ln -s /usr/lib6/browser-plugins/* /opt/google/chrome/plugins/

To run Google Chrome, enter:

linux-3y8t:~ # google-chrome &

If you are logged in as root, then you'll get error message:

linux-3y8t:~ # [5993:5993:0317/223156:ERROR:chrome_browser_main_extra_parts_gtk.cc(51)] Startup refusing to run as root.

google-chrome &

[2] 6030

[1]   Exit 1                  google-chrome

For that, do the following:

linux-3y8t:~ # vim /usr/bin/google-chrome

Enter --user-data-dir in the last line like shown in the image below.

Now go to Application Launcher>>Internet>>Web Browser and you'll see short-cut for Google Chrome there. If you want to run using terminal command, enter aforementioned

linux-3y8t:~ # google-chrome &

and you are done!! :D

After installing Google Chrome, i added my favourite Web Apps from Chrome Web Store..and now i feel at home on Linux. :P

:D
Adios!!

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