Google Linux software repositories

Google has Linux software repositories setup for you to easily stay up to date with their Linux softwares. Their repositories support  APT, YUM, YaST, urpmi and RPM.

However, only Google Desktop and Google Picasa are published on the repositories. Google earth has to be downloaded and installed manually.

I’ll show you how to add the repository in openSUSE but for other distros refer here.

1. As root add the repository.

For 32 bit
pandora:~ # zypper sa -t YUM http://dl.google.com/linux/rpm/stable/i386 google

For 64 bit
pandora:~ # zypper sa -t YUM http://dl.google.com/linux/rpm/stable/x86_64 google64

2. Test the repository
pandora:~ # zypper se picasa

pandora:~ # zypper in picasa

Done!!