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(Solved) Chromium browser - recommended install method?

Posted: 28. Apr 2012, 16:02
by globetrotterdk
I have tried on at least six occasions to install Chromium browser on my Salix64 KDE 13.37 install. I end up banging my head against the wall every time with build errors. I believe that I have all dependencies installed, so that begs the questions:

1) What is the recommended method for installing Chromium browser?
2) How do I purge the /tmp folder, after a build doesn't succeed? I assume it is the /tmp folder that all of this goes into?

Cheers

Edit: I should of course have added that I am trying to install Chromium using Sourcery.
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SOLUTION (31/5-2013):

I have since tried on a nuber of occasions to build Chromium. My experience now tells me that to get a successful build of Chromium, all of the following should be installed (on a 64-bit system):

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# slapt-get -i libevent GConf ORBit2 google-chrome-pam-solibs seamonkey-solibs mozilla-nss yasm

Re: Chromium browser - recommended install method?

Posted: 28. Apr 2012, 18:56
by fredg

Re: Chromium browser - recommended install method?

Posted: 28. Apr 2012, 20:38
by EricC
While not Chromium, I use the Google Chrome slackbuild from the Slackware 13.37 extra folder:

ftp://slackware.mirrors.tds.net/pub/sla ... le-chrome/

Re: Chromium browser - recommended install method?

Posted: 28. Apr 2012, 21:25
by globetrotterdk
Thanks to both of you for your quick replies.
@ fredg I tried option #2, but I got the following errors:

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# sh chromium.SlackBuild
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Package nss was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `nss.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'nss' found
----snip----
Exception: Call to 'pkg-config --cflags nss' returned exit status 1.
while loading dependencies of base/base.gyp while loading dependencies
of build/all.gyp while trying to load build/all.gyp
I couldn't figure out what the nss package was, that was being referred to.

@ EricC Wow! The Google Chrome solution went extremely smoothly, especially considering all of the problems that I have had trying to get the Chromium version up and running. Now I am a happy camper :D

Re: (Solved) Chromium browser - recommended install method?

Posted: 29. Apr 2012, 09:09
by JRD
Hwo this post have been marked "solved" ?
You installed Chrome, not Chromium…

Re: (Solved) Chromium browser - recommended install method?

Posted: 29. Apr 2012, 15:23
by globetrotterdk
:) Close enough for me.

Re: Chromium browser - recommended install method?

Posted: 1. May 2012, 00:36
by EricC
globetrotterdk wrote:Thanks to both of you for your quick replies.
@ EricC Wow! The Google Chrome solution went extremely smoothly, especially considering all of the problems that I have had trying to get the Chromium version up and running. Now I am a happy camper :D
I am glad I was able to provide an acceptable alternative as I have been down the road you were on :D