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Offline Chrome Portable Installerblinde - December 21, 2011 - 9:23am
Hi I am trying to install chrome portable on the PC of my company. Is there a version for offline installer ? Thanks ( categories: )
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No
For licensing reasons, there is not.
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There's the old "copy" method
Even though we have these cool installers, app store, etc, it's not the ONLY way to get a portable app on a drive.
You can always just copy an existing installation.
Just install the thing onto a USB drive at a computer that has full internet access.
Then you can copy and paste the whole "GoogleChomePortable" onto the secured PC.
Of course, even better, you could use PortableApps as it's originally intended: Install onto a USB drive and just run it from there.
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download installer
For most apps available here, you can download the official installer from the app (for example Chrome) and place it next to the online installer and it will find and use it.
You just have to make sure the versions (= md5sums) match.
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You sure about that?
For Chrome in particular, when trying to install into PortableApps, it makes no difference whether or not the official offline installer, ChromeStandaloneSetup.exe is next to the Portable Apps installer file, e.g., GoogleChromePortable_17.0.963.46_online.paf.exe.
This appears to be because the latter unpacks itself into a temp directory somewhere, and does not care which other files are in the directory where it was located itself.
Thanks anyway.
it works for me?
I just did a test install with GoogleChromePortable_17.0.963.46_online.paf.exe in the same folder as chrome_installer.exe and it installed without going online.
hmmm ....
although, I believe the version of chrome_installer.exe needs to be the *exact* same version number as the GoogleChromePortable.paf.exe.
The way I get the required version of chrome_installer.exe is,
(this is on XP machines)
download GoogleChromePortable.paf.exe
bring up the properties for the file (right click> properties or File> properties)
click on the Version tab
and one of the ItemNames that start with "PortableApps.comDow" will show(once you click on it) in the Value box/information area a http address
copy that http address and use it to download the version of chrome_installer.exe that version of the GoogleChromePortable installer needs.
ie: for GoogleChromePortable_17.0.963.46_online.paf.exe the http address is http://dl.google.com/chrome/install/963.46/chrome_installer.exe
put both files in the same location (folder) and it (for me, anyway) installs without needing to download the chrome_installer.exe.
I hope that helps someone
Then again...
There is the possibility that your company is limiting access to the Chrome site because they don't want you using it or maybe even the Internet. There is also the possibility that if they find out that you have disregarded their intentions and policies they will fire your a**.
You sure you want to do this?
Ed