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v6ak n00b
Joined: 08 Aug 2011 Posts: 11 Location: Czech Republic (Europe)
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Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2011 4:40 pm Post subject: [ABADONNED] Binary Chromium from Sabayon repo? |
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I'd like to have a Chrome or Chromium browser, but it compiles for a long time and I don't use it very often.
I've tried a binary version of Chrome from belak overlay, but it does not support some things (WebM, PDF, ...) and it freezes very often.
I've another idea: There are precompiled packages for Sabayon and they should be well compatible with Gentoo: http://ftp.sh.cvut.cz/MIRRORS/sabayon/entropy/standard/sabayon-limbo/packages/amd64/5/
I've tried to download the package and unpack, but it does not seem to be correct:
Code: | # You may need to modify the version in the URL
wget -q -O - http://ftp.sh.cvut.cz/MIRRORS/sabayon/entropy/standard/sabayon-limbo/packages/amd64/5/www-client:chromium-14.0.835.94~0.tbz2 | tar xjv |
But it ends with:
Code: | usr/share/man/
usr/share/man/man1/
usr/share/man/man1/chromium-browser.1.bz2
usr/share/man/man1/chromium.1.bz2
bzip2: (stdin): trailing garbage after EOF ignored
tar: Child died with signal 13
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now |
They are probably some metadata. But I can't find the file format. Do you have any idea?
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John R. Graham Administrator
Joined: 08 Mar 2005 Posts: 10652 Location: Somewhere over Atlanta, Georgia
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Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2011 4:45 pm Post subject: |
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Moved from Documentation, Tips & Tricks to Unsupported Software.
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sera Retired Dev
Joined: 29 Feb 2008 Posts: 1017 Location: CET
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Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2011 5:30 pm Post subject: |
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v6ak,
the binary package is called google-chrome. It's hardmasked but available for amd64 and x86. So no need for an overlay. You can test it and report bugs as you encounter them. |
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v6ak n00b
Joined: 08 Aug 2011 Posts: 11 Location: Czech Republic (Europe)
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Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2011 5:43 pm Post subject: |
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Hmm, I was probably confused a bit. The google-chrome package is probably the package I had installed and when I try to load anything, it rarely works. |
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sera Retired Dev
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Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2011 6:00 pm Post subject: |
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You mentioned the belak overlay. Try the one in maintree. |
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KWhat l33t
Joined: 04 Sep 2005 Posts: 657 Location: Los Angeles
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v6ak n00b
Joined: 08 Aug 2011 Posts: 11 Location: Czech Republic (Europe)
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Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2011 6:40 pm Post subject: |
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There is no binary chromium package for my arch (x86_64 core2). I've also tried to use the Sabayon repo as binhost, but it seems to be incompatible:
Code: | !!! Invalid binary package: '/var/cache/binpackages/www-client/chromium-14.0.835.94~0.tbz2'
!!! Missing metadata key(s): CATEGORY, PF, SLOT. This binary package is not
!!! recoverable and should be deleted. |
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John R. Graham Administrator
Joined: 08 Mar 2005 Posts: 10652 Location: Somewhere over Atlanta, Georgia
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Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2011 8:46 pm Post subject: |
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I recall reading somewhere that Gentoo has a tool to assist in the compiling of packages from source. I can't quite remember the name but I think it rhymes with cabbage.
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gimpel Advocate
Joined: 15 Oct 2004 Posts: 2720 Location: Munich, Bavaria
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Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2011 10:27 am Post subject: |
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For me, WebM and the PDF plugin works fine in google-chrome from portage (and formerly from belak overlay) on amd64.
It's not just "some binary chromium", but the official google-chrome binary. _________________ http://proaudio.tuxfamily.org/wiki - pro-audio software overlay
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v6ak n00b
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Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 8:54 am Post subject: |
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OK, everything is fine after some updates. I don't know where the issue was, but I don't care.
John R. Graham: I know portage, but I didn't want to compile Chrome/Chromium... |
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icyhearts n00b
Joined: 24 Sep 2017 Posts: 31
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Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2017 5:14 am Post subject: |
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sera wrote: | v6ak,
the binary package is called google-chrome. It's hardmasked but available for amd64 and x86. So no need for an overlay. You can test it and report bugs as you encounter them. |
If I just run:
emerge --ask www-client/google-chrome
Will emerge compile google-chrome from source code or just install the binary web browser? |
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NeddySeagoon Administrator
Joined: 05 Jul 2003 Posts: 54550 Location: 56N 3W
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Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2017 1:44 pm Post subject: |
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icyhearts,
Welcome to Gentoo.
Try it and see :)
You will learn something that way. _________________ Regards,
NeddySeagoon
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those that do backups
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oRDeX Veteran
Joined: 19 Oct 2003 Posts: 1325 Location: Italy
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Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2017 11:01 am Post subject: |
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Personally I believe that google-chrome (branded by Google as the name says) is not the same thing as a precompiled chromium (i.e. something that a chromium-bin package may offer).
google-chrome comes directly from Google and this might not be what people wants. Trusting the gentoo community building packages does not mean we can directly trust google itself.
Why not just providing a chromium-bin next to chromium like being done for firefox and thunderbird?
note that google-chrome requires you to accept an additional license that chromium does not. |
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MageSlayer Apprentice
Joined: 26 Jul 2007 Posts: 253 Location: Ukraine
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Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2017 12:49 pm Post subject: |
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oRDeX wrote: |
Why not just providing a chromium-bin next to chromium like being done for firefox and thunderbird? |
Exactly the same question. It's so heavy and often build fails for some reason (libraries) at the very end |
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Ant P. Watchman
Joined: 18 Apr 2009 Posts: 6920
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Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2017 6:17 pm Post subject: |
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If anyone wants to risk writing a chromium-bin-9999.ebuild, there are semi-official nightly builds here (including i686, which chrome doesn't have). They don't do numbered releases. |
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