[CentOS] Chromium browser for C6

[Phelps, Matthew]

I concur. Enter key, ^M, etc. has no effect in the browser. Same for number
keys.

On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 10:57 AM, Cian Mc Govern <cian at cianmcgovern.com>
wrote:

> On 8 November 2014 13:52, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote:
>
> > On 11/07/2014 02:41 PM, Greg Bailey wrote:
> > > On 11/07/2014 01:20 PM, Robert Arkiletian wrote:
> > >> On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 2:11 PM, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org>
> > wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> On 11/06/2014 02:30 PM, Phelps, Matthew wrote:
> > >>>> On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 3:00 PM, Robert Arkiletian <robark at gmail.com
> >
> > >>> wrote:
> > >>>>> On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 6:17 AM, Leon Fauster <
> > >>> leonfauster at googlemail.com>
> > >>>>> wrote:
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>> BTW:
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>
> >
> http://install.linux.ncsu.edu/pub/yum/itecs/public/chromium/rhel6/x86_64/
> > >>>
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>> Are there any differences between how these rpms were built vs the
> > >>> official
> > >>>>> "supplementary" ones from RH?
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> In other words, were they built with the same libs, patches,
> > >>> environment,
> > >>>>> etc... ?
> > >>> Yes, those use the Developer Tool Set .. the ones from Red Hat do
> not.
> > >>>
> > >>> I can not get the Sources for the Red Hat supplemental channel
> because
> > >>> they do distribute the pepperflash component.
> > >>>
> > >>> I am sorry, but Google is not interested in supporting CentOS.
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >> Am I correct in interpreting, that even if RH wanted to release the
> > >> supplemental package for Chromium to CentOS they would not be able to
> > >> because it contains the pepperflash component.
> > >>
> > >
> > > The "chromium-browser" RPM from the supplemental channel doesn't appear
> > > to have pepperflash included in it:
> > >
> > > $ rpm -qilv chromium-browser|grep -i flash
> > >
> > > As opposed to "google-chrome-stable":
> > >
> > > $ rpm -qilv google-chrome-stable | grep -i flash
> > > drwxr-xr-x    2 root    root                        0 Oct 21 18:53
> > > /opt/google/chrome/PepperFlash
> > > -rw-r--r--    1 root    root                 17350240 Oct 21 18:53
> > > /opt/google/chrome/PepperFlash/libpepflashplayer.so
> > > -rw-r--r--    1 root    root                     2045 Oct 21 18:53
> > > /opt/google/chrome/PepperFlash/manifest.json
> > >
> > > The .spec file for chromium-browser does have conditionals in it, such
> > as:
> > >
> > > %define flash 0
> > >
> > > Looks like pepperflash is added from google-chrome-stable if flash is
> > > defined...
> >
> > OK new version posted.
> >
> > This uses the centos-6 testing key and is available here:
> >
> > http://people.centos.org/hughesjr/chromium/6/
> >
> > The repo file is here:
> >
> > http://people.centos.org/hughesjr/chromium/6/chromium-el6.repo
> >
> > This version is now called chromium-browser and not chromium, so if you
> > have the older version, you will need to:
> >
> > yum remove chromium
> >
> > then
> >
> > yum install chromium-browser
> >
> > Later updates should happen with yum update and the name chromium-browser
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Johnny Hughes
> >
> >
> >
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> >
> Thanks for this Johnny. I'm seeing some strange input related issues with
> it however:
>
> 1. It doesn't detect anything typed on the keypad when NumLock is enabled.
> 2. It's not detecting the return key ie. entering text in a search field
> and hitting return results in nothing whereas before it would invoke the
> search.
>
> I'd be happy to provide more information if required.
>
> Thanks,
> Cian
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Matt Phelps
System Administrator, Computation Facility
Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
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