https://plus.google.com/u/0/100132233764003563318/posts/Y1s6T44Soby
Not 100% this is true but the problem apparently is that rhel6 uses an old version of gtk2.
If this is true, then it affects my school and my students. I like google-chrome and it works very well with google services. I was planning on using C6 for a long time. Does anyone know of a repo that intends to keep Chromium working for C6?
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 8:14 PM, Robert Arkiletian robark@gmail.com wrote:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/100132233764003563318/posts/Y1s6T44Soby
Not 100% this is true but the problem apparently is that rhel6 uses an old version of gtk2.
No clue here. I don't run X on any of my production systems. And CentOS isn't my desktop distro.
If this is true, then it affects my school and my students. I like google-chrome and it works very well with google services. I was planning on using C6 for a long time. Does anyone know of a repo that intends to keep Chromium working for C6?
The Fedora Project [0] may maintain Chromium builds for EL6. I know that in the past they've maintained Chromium builds for Fedora. It actually seems like someone [1] might be gearing up to do just that for EL6.
Report back if you give that repo a try as others have indicated on the "firefox problem" thread that they use Chrom(e|ium) on CentOS 6.
[0] http://repos.fedorapeople.org/ [1] http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/leigh123linux/chromium-stable/
-- Robert Arkiletian Eric Hamber Secondary, Vancouver, Canada _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
On 2/12/2013 9:30 AM, SilverTip257 wrote:
The Fedora Project [0] may maintain Chromium builds for EL6. I know that in the past they've maintained Chromium builds for Fedora. It actually seems like someone [1] might be gearing up to do just that for EL6.
if Chrome starts using functionality from a newer Gtk, it will be very challenging to maintain a back port.
On 02/12/2013 10:52 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
On 2/12/2013 9:30 AM, SilverTip257 wrote:
The Fedora Project [0] may maintain Chromium builds for EL6. I know that in the past they've maintained Chromium builds for Fedora. It actually seems like someone [1] might be gearing up to do just that for EL6.
if Chrome starts using functionality from a newer Gtk, it will be very challenging to maintain a back port.
Also notice that the builds in that repo are from May 2011. Looks abandoned to me.
Regards, Dennis
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 4:56 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn < dennisml@conversis.de> wrote:
On 02/12/2013 10:52 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
On 2/12/2013 9:30 AM, SilverTip257 wrote:
The Fedora Project [0] may maintain Chromium builds for EL6. I know
that
in the past they've maintained Chromium builds for Fedora. It actually seems like someone [1] might be gearing up to do just that
for
EL6.
if Chrome starts using functionality from a newer Gtk, it will be very challenging to maintain a back port.
Also notice that the builds in that repo are from May 2011. Looks abandoned to me.
Oh rats ... I totally missed looking at the time stamp :-/ Likely abandoned as you said.
Regards, Dennis
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 5:14 PM, Robert Arkiletian robark@gmail.com wrote:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/100132233764003563318/posts/Y1s6T44Soby
Not 100% this is true but the problem apparently is that rhel6 uses an old version of gtk2.
Update, I just read the issue is also C++11 and gcc 4.6. Apparently, Chromium devs prefer to use the newer c++ standard and that breaks the toolchain on older distros. I think C6 uses gcc 4.4.6.
Also rumor is Google and Red Hat are now talking about this issue. I hope a solution can be found.
On 12.02.2013 01:14, Robert Arkiletian wrote:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/100132233764003563318/posts/Y1s6T44Soby
Not 100% this is true but the problem apparently is that rhel6 uses an old version of gtk2.
If this is true, then it affects my school and my students. I like google-chrome and it works very well with google services. I was planning on using C6 for a long time.
When you make this kind of plans it's always good to reply on as few 3rd party as you can, especially for core components such as the browser. I tried building Chromium in the past for EL6 and I gave up as it was too difficult for me. Of course someone else might succeed in doing so, but even in that case, for how long can he/she keep up with backporting updates and so on?
If you plan long term stuff go with the RH provided browser. I'd look into switching back to Firefox.
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 9:48 AM, Nux! nux@li.nux.ro wrote:
I tried building Chromium in the past for EL6 and I gave up as it was too difficult for me. Of course someone else might succeed in doing so, but even in that case, for how long can he/she keep up with backporting updates and so on?
It would not be 'backporting' if you'd set up a build environment that uses a newer GCC and GTK2 library, and statically link against the newer GTK2. That's a bit of a pain for release engineering, but it's not rocket science. RHEL6/C6 (and Ubuntu 10.04) desktops are probably a tiny fraction of Google's user base, so they just may not want to expend the effort.
Alternatively, one could do something tricky like make a special build of newer GTK2 libraries built with the newer GCC, and make Chrome load them in stead of the regular ones.
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 10:20 AM, Gé Weijers ge@weijers.org wrote:
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 9:48 AM, Nux! nux@li.nux.ro wrote:
I tried building Chromium in the past for EL6 and I gave up as it was too difficult for me. Of course someone else might succeed in doing so, but even in that case, for how long can he/she keep up with backporting updates and so on?
It would not be 'backporting' if you'd set up a build environment that uses a newer GCC and GTK2 library, and statically link against the newer GTK2. That's a bit of a pain for release engineering, but it's not rocket science. RHEL6/C6 (and Ubuntu 10.04) desktops are probably a tiny fraction of Google's user base, so they just may not want to expend the effort.
Alternatively, one could do something tricky like make a special build of newer GTK2 libraries built with the newer GCC, and make Chrome load them in stead of the regular ones.
Just discovered that RH has provided a new developer toolchain a few weeks ago. GCC 4.7.2.
But it requires a developer subscription. Wondering if this might help the situation.
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 10:35:21AM -0800, Robert Arkiletian wrote:
Just discovered that RH has provided a new developer toolchain a few weeks ago. GCC 4.7.2.
But it requires a developer subscription. Wondering if this might help the situation.
feel free to try :D http://people.centos.org/tru/devtools-1.1/
Tru
On 02/12/2013 12:20 PM, Gé Weijers wrote:
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 9:48 AM, Nux! nux@li.nux.ro wrote:
I tried building Chromium in the past for EL6 and I gave up as it was too difficult for me. Of course someone else might succeed in doing so, but even in that case, for how long can he/she keep up with backporting updates and so on?
It would not be 'backporting' if you'd set up a build environment that uses a newer GCC and GTK2 library, and statically link against the newer GTK2. That's a bit of a pain for release engineering, but it's not rocket science. RHEL6/C6 (and Ubuntu 10.04) desktops are probably a tiny fraction of Google's user base, so they just may not want to expend the effort.
Alternatively, one could do something tricky like make a special build of newer GTK2 libraries built with the newer GCC, and make Chrome load them in stead of the regular ones.
Well, there are hobby users and there are real users. Google SHOULD understand the difference.
Most businesses and large user deployments of a Linux desktop would be using things like CentOS, RHEL, SLES, Ubuntu LTS and not the bleeding edge distros with all the new versions of GTK.
Don't get me wrong, I understand that there are a large number of people using the 6 month distros too ... BUT ... most enterprises I know of that use Linux on the desktop are not among them.
Mozilla did figure that out and release their ESR version for these people because they understand that they do make up a significant portion of the people who actually get work done on Linux. Hopefully RH will be able to convince them to continue to provide some kind of support.
I'm bumping this thread in hopes some Googe/Chromium devs will realize that GCC 4.7.2 is available for RHEL6. Please continue supporting google-chrome for rhel/centos 6. Now that version 26 is stable we get a warning message every time chrome is launched. "Google Chrome has stopped updating ..."
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Johnny Hughes johnny@centos.org wrote:
On 02/12/2013 12:20 PM, Gé Weijers wrote:
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 9:48 AM, Nux! nux@li.nux.ro wrote:
I tried building Chromium in the past for EL6 and I gave up as it was too difficult for me. Of course someone else might succeed in doing so, but even in that case, for how long can he/she keep up with backporting updates and so on?
It would not be 'backporting' if you'd set up a build environment that uses a newer GCC and GTK2 library, and statically link against the newer GTK2. That's a bit of a pain for release engineering, but it's not rocket science. RHEL6/C6 (and Ubuntu 10.04) desktops are probably a tiny fraction of Google's user base, so they just may not want to expend the effort.
Alternatively, one could do something tricky like make a special build of newer GTK2 libraries built with the newer GCC, and make Chrome load them in stead of the regular ones.
Well, there are hobby users and there are real users. Google SHOULD understand the difference.
Most businesses and large user deployments of a Linux desktop would be using things like CentOS, RHEL, SLES, Ubuntu LTS and not the bleeding edge distros with all the new versions of GTK.
Don't get me wrong, I understand that there are a large number of people using the 6 month distros too ... BUT ... most enterprises I know of that use Linux on the desktop are not among them.
Mozilla did figure that out and release their ESR version for these people because they understand that they do make up a significant portion of the people who actually get work done on Linux. Hopefully RH will be able to convince them to continue to provide some kind of support.
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Update: With Opera dropping Presto engine and following/forking Chrome and with Chromium dropping support for CentOS that just leaves us with only one main browser: Firefox ESR.
I commented asking for support past version 26. Got a reply,
"Note that these systems were never officially supported. I'd recommend CentOS to make its own Chromium package." https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/chromium-d...
Also filed a feature request that got merged into the Debian 6 same request. " Please file a new bug for CentOS, since this bug is about Debian. I have a feeling we won't be able to support it though." https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=224389
-- Robert Arkiletian Eric Hamber Secondary, Vancouver, Canada
Is there any chance CentOS might add Chromium to extras repo? See below.
Post from Hirakendu: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/chromium-d...
----------- "I have put up some scripts for building current Chromium versions (26 and 27) on EL 6 at
https://github.com/hirakendu/chromium_el_builder
. See the readme for details. Due to the large file size, the current RPM chromium-26.0.1410.63-192696.x86_64.rpm, built on CentOS 6.4, can be obtained by downloading the project archive.Please note that this is only for the time being and I do not intend to actively maintain it, but I hope it may help others. A couple of patches may be merged as well.
Aside, thanks to Paweł for maintaining the excellent chromium ebuilds for Gentoo Linux (which I have been happily using for several years) that helped clarify some of the build steps, in addition to the official build instructions at chromium.org." ------------ -- Robert Arkiletian Eric Hamber Secondary, Vancouver, Canada
On 04/15/2013 01:26 AM, Robert Arkiletian wrote:
Is there any chance CentOS might add Chromium to extras repo? See below.
Post from Hirakendu: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/chromium-d...
"I have put up some scripts for building current Chromium versions (26 and 27) on EL 6 at
https://github.com/hirakendu/chromium_el_builder
. See the readme for details. Due to the large file size, the current RPM chromium-26.0.1410.63-192696.x86_64.rpm, built on CentOS 6.4, can be obtained by downloading the project archive.Please note that this is only for the time being and I do not intend to actively maintain it, but I hope it may help others. A couple of patches may be merged as well.
Aside, thanks to Paweł for maintaining the excellent chromium ebuilds for Gentoo Linux (which I have been happily using for several years) that helped clarify some of the build steps, in addition to the official build instructions at chromium.org."
I will be glad to build it, *IF* I can reproduce what the script does inside an SRPM (looks like I should be able to). One of our rules is an SRPM for everything we release.
The problem is, if he is not going to support it later, his gcc patches may not keep working on newer code and we only gain a couple of builds and run out of support.
Since I personally use chrome as my browser (and obviously CentOS-6.4 as my OS :D) ... and want to continue to do so ... I will look at this soon.
Thanks, Johnny Hughes
Johnny,
there is someone here
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=227320
who is willing and able to help.
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Johnny Hughes johnny@centos.org wrote:
On 04/15/2013 01:26 AM, Robert Arkiletian wrote:
Is there any chance CentOS might add Chromium to extras repo? See below.
Post from Hirakendu: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/chromium-d...
"I have put up some scripts for building current Chromium versions (26 and 27) on EL 6 at
https://github.com/hirakendu/chromium_el_builder
. See the readme for details. Due to the large file size, the current RPM chromium-26.0.1410.63-192696.x86_64.rpm, built on CentOS 6.4, can be obtained by downloading the project archive.Please note that this is only for the time being and I do not intend to actively maintain it, but I hope it may help others. A couple of patches may be merged as well.
Aside, thanks to Paweł for maintaining the excellent chromium ebuilds for Gentoo Linux (which I have been happily using for several years) that helped clarify some of the build steps, in addition to the official build instructions at chromium.org."
I will be glad to build it, *IF* I can reproduce what the script does inside an SRPM (looks like I should be able to). One of our rules is an SRPM for everything we release.
The problem is, if he is not going to support it later, his gcc patches may not keep working on newer code and we only gain a couple of builds and run out of support.
Since I personally use chrome as my browser (and obviously CentOS-6.4 as my OS :D) ... and want to continue to do so ... I will look at this soon.
Thanks, Johnny Hughes
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
On 05/02/2013 10:50 PM, Robert Arkiletian wrote:
Johnny,
there is someone here
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=227320
who is willing and able to help.
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Johnny Hughes johnny@centos.org wrote:
On 04/15/2013 01:26 AM, Robert Arkiletian wrote:
Is there any chance CentOS might add Chromium to extras repo? See below.
Post from Hirakendu: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/chromium-d...
"I have put up some scripts for building current Chromium versions (26 and 27) on EL 6 at
https://github.com/hirakendu/chromium_el_builder
. See the readme for details. Due to the large file size, the current RPM chromium-26.0.1410.63-192696.x86_64.rpm, built on CentOS 6.4, can be obtained by downloading the project archive.Please note that this is only for the time being and I do not intend to actively maintain it, but I hope it may help others. A couple of patches may be merged as well.
Aside, thanks to Paweł for maintaining the excellent chromium ebuilds for Gentoo Linux (which I have been happily using for several years) that helped clarify some of the build steps, in addition to the official build instructions at chromium.org."
I will be glad to build it, *IF* I can reproduce what the script does inside an SRPM (looks like I should be able to). One of our rules is an SRPM for everything we release.
The problem is, if he is not going to support it later, his gcc patches may not keep working on newer code and we only gain a couple of builds and run out of support.
Since I personally use chrome as my browser (and obviously CentOS-6.4 as my OS :D) ... and want to continue to do so ... I will look at this soon.
OK guys,
Here is the test version of Chromium version 28 for CentOS-6 (the current beta release).
http://people.centos.org/hughesjr/chromium/6/
You can copy the repo file from there into /etc/yum.repo.d/ and then issue the command:
yum install chromium
The package is signed by the CentOS-6-Testing key.
Here is the git repo where the build script (source) and instructions are located:
https://github.com/hughesjr/chromium_el_builder
If you already have chrome installed, you will want to remove it and remove the yum repo for chrome as it will get no more updates.
We can not distribute the pepperflash or libpdf viewer from Google Chrome due to licensing restrictions, but you can download these two scripts from the github repo and run them either as root or as a user with sudo access to install those two libraries:
chrome_libpdf_copy.sh: https://raw.github.com/hughesjr/chromium_el_builder/master/chrome_libpdf_cop...
chrome_pepperflash_copy.sh: https://raw.github.com/hughesjr/chromium_el_builder/master/chrome_pepperflas...
Lets get this tested and vetted and we can maybe move it to CentOS Extras when Chome is upgraded to the 28 version in production.
Thanks, Johnny Hughes
On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 10:27:46PM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
OK guys,
Here is the test version of Chromium version 28 for CentOS-6 (the current beta release).
http://people.centos.org/hughesjr/chromium/6/
You can copy the repo file from there into /etc/yum.repo.d/ and then issue the command:
yum install chromium
The package is signed by the CentOS-6-Testing key.
Here is the git repo where the build script (source) and instructions are located:
https://github.com/hughesjr/chromium_el_builder
If you already have chrome installed, you will want to remove it and remove the yum repo for chrome as it will get no more updates.
We can not distribute the pepperflash or libpdf viewer from Google Chrome due to licensing restrictions, but you can download these two scripts from the github repo and run them either as root or as a user with sudo access to install those two libraries:
chrome_libpdf_copy.sh: https://raw.github.com/hughesjr/chromium_el_builder/master/chrome_libpdf_cop...
chrome_pepperflash_copy.sh: https://raw.github.com/hughesjr/chromium_el_builder/master/chrome_pepperflas...
Followed all these instructions and it went without incident. The binary is /opt/chromium/chrome. Everything seems to be working well--I copied my $HOME/.config/google-chromium/Defaults to the newly created $HOME/.config/chromium directory which saved all my settings.
It also seems to open faster than google-chrome. Thank you for your efforts.
On 06/08/2013 03:27 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
On 05/02/2013 10:50 PM, Robert Arkiletian wrote:
Johnny,
there is someone here
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=227320
who is willing and able to help.
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Johnny Hughes johnny@centos.org wrote:
On 04/15/2013 01:26 AM, Robert Arkiletian wrote:
Is there any chance CentOS might add Chromium to extras repo? See below.
Post from Hirakendu: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/chromium-d...
"I have put up some scripts for building current Chromium versions (26 and 27) on EL 6 at
https://github.com/hirakendu/chromium_el_builder
. See the readme for details. Due to the large file size, the current RPM chromium-26.0.1410.63-192696.x86_64.rpm, built on CentOS 6.4, can be obtained by downloading the project archive.Please note that this is only for the time being and I do not intend to actively maintain it, but I hope it may help others. A couple of patches may be merged as well.
Aside, thanks to Pawe? for maintaining the excellent chromium ebuilds for Gentoo Linux (which I have been happily using for several years) that helped clarify some of the build steps, in addition to the official build instructions at chromium.org."
I will be glad to build it, *IF* I can reproduce what the script does inside an SRPM (looks like I should be able to). One of our rules is an SRPM for everything we release.
The problem is, if he is not going to support it later, his gcc patches may not keep working on newer code and we only gain a couple of builds and run out of support.
Since I personally use chrome as my browser (and obviously CentOS-6.4 as my OS :D) ... and want to continue to do so ... I will look at this soon.
OK guys,
Here is the test version of Chromium version 28 for CentOS-6 (the current beta release).
http://people.centos.org/hughesjr/chromium/6/
You can copy the repo file from there into /etc/yum.repo.d/ and then issue the command:
yum install chromium
The package is signed by the CentOS-6-Testing key.
Here is the git repo where the build script (source) and instructions are located:
https://github.com/hughesjr/chromium_el_builder
If you already have chrome installed, you will want to remove it and remove the yum repo for chrome as it will get no more updates.
We can not distribute the pepperflash or libpdf viewer from Google Chrome due to licensing restrictions, but you can download these two scripts from the github repo and run them either as root or as a user with sudo access to install those two libraries:
chrome_libpdf_copy.sh: https://raw.github.com/hughesjr/chromium_el_builder/master/chrome_libpdf_cop...
chrome_pepperflash_copy.sh: https://raw.github.com/hughesjr/chromium_el_builder/master/chrome_pepperflas...
Lets get this tested and vetted and we can maybe move it to CentOS Extras when Chome is upgraded to the 28 version in production.
Thanks, Johnny Hughes
Thanks Johnny - all the instructions work as advertised - appreciated. I will use this as my browser for the next while and report any issues. Rob
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
On Fri, 07 Jun 2013 22:27:46 -0500 Johnny Hughes johnny@centos.org wrote:
On 05/02/2013 10:50 PM, Robert Arkiletian wrote:
<SNIP.. ow my finger> On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Johnny Hughes johnny@centos.org wrote:
On 04/15/2013 01:26 AM, Robert Arkiletian wrote:
<SNIPIDY SNIP SNIP>
OK guys,
Here is the test version of Chromium version 28 for CentOS-6 (the current beta release).
http://people.centos.org/hughesjr/chromium/6/
<SNIP>
Thanks, Johnny Hughes
Thanks Johnny! I'm not a fan of chrome myself however I have to to keep it around for development projects for QA/Testing purposes. So having a handy RPM is always helpful :-).
I'll post back if I hit any bugs with the package :-).
Thanks, Jake Shipton (JakeMS) GPG Key: 0xE3C31D8F GPG Fingerprint: 7515 CC63 19BD 06F9 400A DE8A 1D0B A5CF E3C3 1D8F
Thanks Johnny,
Your work is much appreciated.
On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 8:27 PM, Johnny Hughes johnny@centos.org wrote:
On 05/02/2013 10:50 PM, Robert Arkiletian wrote:
Johnny,
there is someone here
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=227320
who is willing and able to help.
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Johnny Hughes johnny@centos.org wrote:
On 04/15/2013 01:26 AM, Robert Arkiletian wrote:
Is there any chance CentOS might add Chromium to extras repo? See below.
Post from Hirakendu: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/chromium-d...
"I have put up some scripts for building current Chromium versions (26 and 27) on EL 6 at
https://github.com/hirakendu/chromium_el_builder
. See the readme for details. Due to the large file size, the current RPM chromium-26.0.1410.63-192696.x86_64.rpm, built on CentOS 6.4, can be obtained by downloading the project archive.Please note that this is only for the time being and I do not intend to actively maintain it, but I hope it may help others. A couple of patches may be merged as well.
Aside, thanks to Paweł for maintaining the excellent chromium ebuilds for Gentoo Linux (which I have been happily using for several years) that helped clarify some of the build steps, in addition to the official build instructions at chromium.org."
I will be glad to build it, *IF* I can reproduce what the script does inside an SRPM (looks like I should be able to). One of our rules is an SRPM for everything we release.
The problem is, if he is not going to support it later, his gcc patches may not keep working on newer code and we only gain a couple of builds and run out of support.
Since I personally use chrome as my browser (and obviously CentOS-6.4 as my OS :D) ... and want to continue to do so ... I will look at this soon.
OK guys,
Here is the test version of Chromium version 28 for CentOS-6 (the current beta release).
http://people.centos.org/hughesjr/chromium/6/
You can copy the repo file from there into /etc/yum.repo.d/ and then issue the command:
yum install chromium
The package is signed by the CentOS-6-Testing key.
Here is the git repo where the build script (source) and instructions are located:
https://github.com/hughesjr/chromium_el_builder
If you already have chrome installed, you will want to remove it and remove the yum repo for chrome as it will get no more updates.
We can not distribute the pepperflash or libpdf viewer from Google Chrome due to licensing restrictions, but you can download these two scripts from the github repo and run them either as root or as a user with sudo access to install those two libraries:
chrome_libpdf_copy.sh: https://raw.github.com/hughesjr/chromium_el_builder/master/chrome_libpdf_cop...
chrome_pepperflash_copy.sh: https://raw.github.com/hughesjr/chromium_el_builder/master/chrome_pepperflas...
Lets get this tested and vetted and we can maybe move it to CentOS Extras when Chome is upgraded to the 28 version in production.
Thanks, Johnny Hughes
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 11:27 PM, Johnny Hughes johnny@centos.org wrote:
OK guys,
Here is the test version of Chromium version 28 for CentOS-6 (the current beta release).
Johnny,
Thanks for packaging Chromium for CentOS 6. I'll second Scott's comment and say the install went through without any snafus! It's working well on my system.
On 08/06/13 06:27, Johnny Hughes wrote:
We can not distribute the pepperflash or libpdf viewer from Google Chrome due to licensing restrictions, but you can download these two scripts from the github repo and run them either as root or as a user with sudo access to install those two libraries:
chrome_libpdf_copy.sh:
https://raw.github.com/hughesjr/chromium_el_builder/master/chrome_libpdf_cop...
chrome_pepperflash_copy.sh:
https://raw.github.com/hughesjr/chromium_el_builder/master/chrome_pepperflas...
Lets get this tested and vetted and we can maybe move it to CentOS
Extras when Chome is upgraded to the 28 version in production.
Thanks, Johnny Hughes
Hi, Just for the record. The script in
https://raw.github.com/hughesjr/chromium_el_builder/master/chrome_libpdf_cop...
downloads the latest stable of google-chrome which is 28.0.1500.52-207119 atm. The libpdf.so which is included is not working (at least on i386).
# ldd libpdf.so ./libpdf.so: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.15' not found (required by ./libpdf.so)
When you try to open pdf file you get "Could not load Chrome PDF Viewer"
The libpdf.so version from the following works: google-chrome-stable-27.0.1453.110-202711.i386
I've managed to download it from http://orion.lcg.ufrj.br/RPMS/myrpms/google/
regards,
Giannis
On 06/23/2013 04:59 AM, Kapetanakis Giannis wrote:
On 08/06/13 06:27, Johnny Hughes wrote:
We can not distribute the pepperflash or libpdf viewer from Google Chrome due to licensing restrictions, but you can download these two scripts from the github repo and run them either as root or as a user with sudo access to install those two libraries:
chrome_libpdf_copy.sh:
https://raw.github.com/hughesjr/chromium_el_builder/master/chrome_libpdf_cop...
chrome_pepperflash_copy.sh: https://raw.github.com/hughesjr/chromium_el_builder/master/chrome_pepperflas...
Lets get this tested and vetted and we can maybe move it to CentOS
Extras when Chome is upgraded to the 28 version in production.
Thanks, Johnny Hughes
Hi, Just for the record. The script in
https://raw.github.com/hughesjr/chromium_el_builder/master/chrome_libpdf_cop...
downloads the latest stable of google-chrome which is 28.0.1500.52-207119 atm. The libpdf.so which is included is not working (at least on i386).
# ldd libpdf.so ./libpdf.so: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.15' not found (required by ./libpdf.so)
When you try to open pdf file you get "Could not load Chrome PDF Viewer"
The libpdf.so version from the following works: google-chrome-stable-27.0.1453.110-202711.i386
I've managed to download it from http://orion.lcg.ufrj.br/RPMS/myrpms/google/
Correct ... the issue is that the new libpdf.so requires the same (newer) glibc as the chrome version ... and therefore it will not work. You can use the standard Adobe Acrobat plugin for viewing PDFs.
On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 11:27 PM, Johnny Hughes johnny@centos.org wrote:
On 05/02/2013 10:50 PM, Robert Arkiletian wrote:
Johnny,
there is someone here
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=227320
who is willing and able to help.
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Johnny Hughes johnny@centos.org
wrote:
On 04/15/2013 01:26 AM, Robert Arkiletian wrote:
Is there any chance CentOS might add Chromium to extras repo? See
below.
Post from Hirakendu:
https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/chromium-d...
"I have put up some scripts for building current Chromium versions (26 and 27) on EL 6 at
https://github.com/hirakendu/chromium_el_builder
. See the readme for details. Due to the large file size, the current RPM chromium-26.0.1410.63-192696.x86_64.rpm, built on CentOS 6.4, can be obtained by downloading the project archive.Please note that this is only for the time being and I do not intend to actively maintain it, but I hope it may help others. A couple of patches may be merged as well.
Aside, thanks to Paweł for maintaining the excellent chromium ebuilds for Gentoo Linux (which I have been happily using for several years) that helped clarify some of the build steps, in addition to the official build instructions at chromium.org."
I will be glad to build it, *IF* I can reproduce what the script does inside an SRPM (looks like I should be able to). One of our rules is an SRPM for everything we release.
The problem is, if he is not going to support it later, his gcc patches may not keep working on newer code and we only gain a couple of builds and run out of support.
Since I personally use chrome as my browser (and obviously CentOS-6.4 as my OS :D) ... and want to continue to do so ... I will look at this
soon.
OK guys,
Here is the test version of Chromium version 28 for CentOS-6 (the current beta release).
http://people.centos.org/hughesjr/chromium/6/
You can copy the repo file from there into /etc/yum.repo.d/ and then issue the command:
yum install chromium
The package is signed by the CentOS-6-Testing key.
Here is the git repo where the build script (source) and instructions are located:
https://github.com/hughesjr/chromium_el_builder
If you already have chrome installed, you will want to remove it and remove the yum repo for chrome as it will get no more updates.
We can not distribute the pepperflash or libpdf viewer from Google Chrome due to licensing restrictions, but you can download these two scripts from the github repo and run them either as root or as a user with sudo access to install those two libraries:
chrome_libpdf_copy.sh:
https://raw.github.com/hughesjr/chromium_el_builder/master/chrome_libpdf_cop...
chrome_pepperflash_copy.sh:
https://raw.github.com/hughesjr/chromium_el_builder/master/chrome_pepperflas...
Lets get this tested and vetted and we can maybe move it to CentOS Extras when Chome is upgraded to the 28 version in production.
Thanks, Johnny Hughes
Any idea when this might get added to the Extras repository?
Also, does anyone know where we could download the Google RPM for the last version to work on CentOS6 (version 27)?
On 06/26/2013 07:52 AM, Phelps, Matt wrote:
On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 11:27 PM, Johnny Hughes johnny@centos.org wrote:
On 05/02/2013 10:50 PM, Robert Arkiletian wrote:
Johnny,
there is someone here
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=227320
who is willing and able to help.
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Johnny Hughes johnny@centos.org
wrote:
On 04/15/2013 01:26 AM, Robert Arkiletian wrote:
Is there any chance CentOS might add Chromium to extras repo? See
below.
Post from Hirakendu:
https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/chromium-d...
"I have put up some scripts for building current Chromium versions (26 and 27) on EL 6 at
https://github.com/hirakendu/chromium_el_builder
. See the readme for details. Due to the large file size, the current RPM chromium-26.0.1410.63-192696.x86_64.rpm, built on CentOS 6.4, can be obtained by downloading the project archive.Please note that this is only for the time being and I do not intend to actively maintain it, but I hope it may help others. A couple of patches may be merged as well.
Aside, thanks to Paweł for maintaining the excellent chromium ebuilds for Gentoo Linux (which I have been happily using for several years) that helped clarify some of the build steps, in addition to the official build instructions at chromium.org."
I will be glad to build it, *IF* I can reproduce what the script does inside an SRPM (looks like I should be able to). One of our rules is an SRPM for everything we release.
The problem is, if he is not going to support it later, his gcc patches may not keep working on newer code and we only gain a couple of builds and run out of support.
Since I personally use chrome as my browser (and obviously CentOS-6.4 as my OS :D) ... and want to continue to do so ... I will look at this
soon.
OK guys,
Here is the test version of Chromium version 28 for CentOS-6 (the current beta release).
http://people.centos.org/hughesjr/chromium/6/
You can copy the repo file from there into /etc/yum.repo.d/ and then issue the command:
yum install chromium
The package is signed by the CentOS-6-Testing key.
Here is the git repo where the build script (source) and instructions are located:
https://github.com/hughesjr/chromium_el_builder
If you already have chrome installed, you will want to remove it and remove the yum repo for chrome as it will get no more updates.
We can not distribute the pepperflash or libpdf viewer from Google Chrome due to licensing restrictions, but you can download these two scripts from the github repo and run them either as root or as a user with sudo access to install those two libraries:
chrome_libpdf_copy.sh:
https://raw.github.com/hughesjr/chromium_el_builder/master/chrome_libpdf_cop...
chrome_pepperflash_copy.sh:
https://raw.github.com/hughesjr/chromium_el_builder/master/chrome_pepperflas...
Lets get this tested and vetted and we can maybe move it to CentOS Extras when Chome is upgraded to the 28 version in production.
Thanks, Johnny Hughes
Any idea when this might get added to the Extras repository?
Also, does anyone know where we could download the Google RPM for the last version to work on CentOS6 (version 27)?
With the very real possibility that new code could be written (for the newer glibc/gcc that they are now targeting) that will actually not compile on the older setup, I am not sure we are comfortable actually moving this directly into extras.
I would say that we need several cycles and new versions for testing (maybe at the 31.x tree cycle) before we actually know this is going to continue to work.
WRT PDFs and flash, I would not use the older versions but instead try to make adobereader and adobeflash if they fail ... otherwise you will not get security updates on these.
Thanks, Johnny Hughes
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 5:36 PM, Johnny Hughes johnny@centos.org wrote:
Well, there are hobby users and there are real users. Google SHOULD understand the difference.
Welcome to the brave new World where Google is the new Microsoft.
Do you think if they cared about user feedback they would have left the "New GMail" redesign in place after the tons of negative feedback?.
http://news.techeye.net/software/google-to-angry-gmail-users-we-know-better
http://www.brightsideofnews.com/news/2012/4/24/googles-cloud-throws-a-thunde...
They dont care. They "know better". They re doing software and services for the uneducated masses, they dont care what you and I -or any other 'power user'- thinks. Google's idea is that ideally we should run Android or Chrome OS, not CentOS...
But the real question is: why should we freak out if a piece of Google software becomes no longer available? The World wont end, specially when there are capable open alternatives like Mozilla s Firefox. Think "Picasa for Linux" (wine)
In fact, I think it's positive if we give Google LESS influence than what they already have, not more.
FC
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