Thanks that worked. Was able to install chrome.
I know this question is off track from my original question but do you happen to know how we can install synapse/gnome-do/launchy? Tried searching after all the repositories were added but couldn't find any of those packages. I then tried to compile from source but it gave following error -
/usr/bin/uname -p = unknown
/bin/uname -X = unknown
/bin/arch = unknown
/usr/bin/arch -k = unknown
/usr/convex/getsysinfo = unknown
/usr/bin/hostinfo = unknown
/bin/machine = unknown
/usr/bin/oslevel = unknown
/bin/universe = unknown
even though those commands return something when run from command line, so not sure what the actual problem is.
Thanks for your input.