How to install google-chrome-stable in bootable container Silverblue?

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I am trying to use bootc and dnf5 to add my own customizations on top of Fedora Silverblue. It’s really impressive technology and works for just about everything I have tried except for installing Google Chrome. This is a minimal example that gives the error:

FROM quay.io/fedora/fedora-silverblue:41

RUN dnf config-manager setopt google-chrome.enabled=1 && dnf -y install google-chrome-stable
RUN bootc container lint

The dnf install line fails with failed to open dir opt of /opt/google/: cpio: mkdir failed - File exists.

I’ve read the bootc documentation and I came up with the solution of mkdiring /var/opt before installing. This works in that the container is built but I don’t know if this is a good idea or even the right way to solve the issue?

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Currently, at this stage, it is still recommended to use unofficial images, see What’s new for Fedora Atomic Desktops in Fedora 41 - Siosm’s blog.

I don’t use Google Chrome, so I haven’t tested it, but you can take a look at GitHub - travier/fedora-sysexts: Example sysexts for Fedora image based systems, namely fedora-sysexts/google-chrome/Containerfile at main · travier/fedora-sysexts · GitHub.

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Thanks for the pointer to the sysexts repo.

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