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[SOLVED] Chromium or Chrome?
Posted: 19. May 2014, 02:07
by retriever
I did a search with gslapt and couldn't find either of these. I like Midori, but I am burning an ISO for a friend who likes Chrome.
Thanks!
Re: Chromium or Chrome?
Posted: 19. May 2014, 04:39
by aaditya
Alien Bob has a package for chromium in his repository:
http://taper.alienbase.nl/mirrors/peopl ... epos/14.1/
Also, there is Slackbuild for google-chrome in /extra directory on the Slackware ISO / mirror:
http://taper.alienbase.nl/mirrors/slackware/
(Note- I am new to Salix but use Slackware, so there may be other methods..)
Re: Chromium or Chrome?
Posted: 19. May 2014, 05:09
by retriever
Thank you so much for responding. I just wish I knew how to install the package.
Thank you again.
Re: Chromium or Chrome?
Posted: 19. May 2014, 05:53
by aaditya
I currently dont have access to my Salix VM, but does it have the
installpkg tool?
You can check with
or
Code: Select all
ls -l /sbin/installpkg; ls -l /usr/sbin/installpkg
If its available, you can download the Chromium package from Alien Bob's mirror,
for eg, for 64 bit(x86_64), its
http://taper.alienbase.nl/mirrors/peopl ... 1alien.txz
And then use
installpkg chromium-34.0.1847.137-x86_64-1alien.txz in the directory where you had downloaded this package.
If you want google-chrome, the instructions can be found at:
http://taper.alienbase.nl/mirrors/slack ... ome/README
Re: Chromium or Chrome?
Posted: 19. May 2014, 06:10
by aaditya
After some reading, I think the tool for installing or upgrading packages on Salix is
spkg
So you can download the package from Alien Bob's mirror, and then run:
in the directory where you had downloaded the package.
Re: Chromium or Chrome?
Posted: 19. May 2014, 06:43
by mimosa
installpkg would work but spkg is the tool of choice.
I believe AlienBob's package works well, whereas the SlackBuild failed when I tried it - as well as being a rather long build.
Re: Chromium or Chrome?
Posted: 19. May 2014, 06:43
by retriever
Thank you again aaditya. Well I tried and was informed I needed to be root to run the command. I guess I'll look around some more and see if I can figure it out.
Take care, and thanks!
Re: Chromium or Chrome?
Posted: 19. May 2014, 06:56
by aaditya
To become root, you can try:
or
Re: Chromium or Chrome?
Posted: 19. May 2014, 07:07
by aaditya
@
mimosa, I think the Slackbuild for google-chrome only repackages the .deb file to .txz, so probably shouldnt take a lot of time..
From
http://taper.alienbase.nl/mirrors/slack ... ome/README
Here's how to install Google Chrome on Slackware.
First, go to the Google Chrome site:
http://www.google.com/chrome
Click the download button, and select either:
< > 32 bit .deb (for Debian/Ubuntu)
OR
< > 64 bit .deb (for Debian/Ubuntu)
Read and accept the license terms, and download the .deb package.
Then, with the google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb or
google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb package in the same directory
as the google-chrome.SlackBuild script, run the script as root to
convert the .deb to a Slackware .txz:
./google-chrome.SlackBuild
This will produce a Slackware compatible .txz package. The exact
version number in the package filename will depend on the version
of Google Chrome found in the .deb package, but it will be something
like: google-chrome-10.0.648.151-x86_64-1.txz
You'll find the output package in the /tmp directory.
Then, install the package (again as root):
cd /tmp
upgradepkg --install-new google-chrome-10.0.648.151-x86_64-1.txz
That being said, I use Firefox and have never tried it.
Re: Chromium or Chrome?
Posted: 19. May 2014, 07:13
by retriever
Thank you for all of the help! I really appreciate it.
Retriever