[ABADONNED] Binary Chromium from Sabayon repo?

v6ak · Last edited by v6ak on Thu Sep 08, 2011 8:55 am; edited 1 time in total

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:

John R. Graham · Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2011 4:45 pm Post subject:

Moved from Documentation, Tips & Tricks to Unsupported Software.

- John
_________________
I can confirm that I have received between 0 and 499 National Security Letters.

sera · Retired Dev Joined: 29 Feb 2008 Posts: 1017 Location: CET

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.

v6ak · Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2011 5:43 pm Post subject:

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.

sera · Retired Dev Joined: 29 Feb 2008 Posts: 1017 Location: CET

You mentioned the belak overlay. Try the one in maintree.

KWhat · l33t Joined: 04 Sep 2005 Posts: 647 Location: Los Angeles

Check out the PORTAGE_BINHOST feature.

http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Using_Portage_BINHOST
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2&chap=3#doc_chap4_sect2

There are a number of hosts, some will have more packages than others. If you get lucky you may find one with www-client/chromium

v6ak · Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2011 6:40 pm Post subject:

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:

John R. Graham · Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2011 8:46 pm Post subject:

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. :wink:

- John
_________________
I can confirm that I have received between 0 and 499 National Security Letters.

gimpel · Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2011 10:27 am Post subject:

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

v6ak · Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 8:54 am Post subject:

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...

icyhearts · n00b Joined: 24 Sep 2017 Posts: 31

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2017 1:44 pm Post subject:

icyhearts,

Welcome to Gentoo.
Try it and see :)

You will learn something that way.
_________________
Regards,

NeddySeagoon

Computer users fall into two groups:-
those that do backups
those that have never had a hard drive fail.

oRDeX · Veteran Joined: 19 Oct 2003 Posts: 1325 Location: Italy

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.

MageSlayer · Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2017 12:49 pm Post subject:

Ant P. · Watchman Joined: 18 Apr 2009 Posts: 6920

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.