[ale] How to Install Chromium?

[Marc Ferguson]

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 10:03 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> The page from the search has something about installing the repo file from
> the download site. Then just yum install chromium.
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Marc Ferguson <marcferguson at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 7:38 PM, Marc Ferguson <marcferguson at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> google: chromium rpm fedora. Top link had the address in the text about
>>>> 1/3 down page.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Marc Ferguson <marcferguson at gmail.com
>>>> > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 11:48 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> http://spot.fedorapeople.org/chromium/
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 7:12 PM, Marc Ferguson<marcferguson at gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> > On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Jim Philips <
>>>>>> briarpatch.jim at gmail.com>
>>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>> >>
>>>>>> >> You can download .deb files here:
>>>>>> >>
>>>>>> >> http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel
>>>>>> >>
>>>>>> >> Much easier than building from source. My installed browser doesn't
>>>>>> take
>>>>>> >> up anything like three gigs.
>>>>>> >>
>>>>>> >> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Marc Ferguson <
>>>>>> marcferguson at gmail.com>
>>>>>> >> wrote:
>>>>>> >>>
>>>>>> >>> Hi Fellas,
>>>>>> >>>
>>>>>> >>> I find it funny that I have a hard time finding the page to
>>>>>> download the
>>>>>> >>> Chromium files. I found it last night and downloaded the 800MB+
>>>>>> files. I
>>>>>> >>> read on their site that Chromium can take up to 3GB of hard drive
>>>>>> space? For
>>>>>> >>> those of you that have tried it, is that true?  So; now that I
>>>>>> have the
>>>>>> >>> files, I'll need to build it (Yippie!)  Can someone walk me
>>>>>> through it? To
>>>>>> >>> be honest, I'm a bit intimidated by the instructions and thus
>>>>>> confused.
>>>>>> >>>
>>>>>> >>> I'm running Fedora 11 x86_64.  Thanks.
>>>>>> >>>
>>>>>> >>> --
>>>>>> >>> Marc F.
>>>>>> >>>
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>>>>>> > Forgive my ignorance, but isn't .deb files for Ubuntu and other
>>>>>> debian-based
>>>>>> > systems?  Mine is RPM-based (I'm running Fedora). I don't think an
>>>>>> RPM has
>>>>>> > been created yet. :(
>>>>>> >
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>>>>>
>>>>> James, seriously, how did you find that link?  Thanks. :)
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>> Marc F.
>>>>>
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>>> Seems simple enough, eh!? I some times suck at searches.
>>>
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>>> Marc F.
>>>
>>> "When life gives me lemons... I make Linuxaide, hmm good stuff!"
>>>
>>>
>> Well thanks a lot. I got it working and I'm posting from Chromium.  At
>> first I just downloaded the chromium-3.0.193.xxxx.i586 file. I ran into a
>> library dependency issue (libv8.so.0). I didn't know where to find that
>> library. I search yum, but came up with nothing.  So; I went back to the
>> site and downloaded the other v8-xxx.i586 files and installed those first.
>> To my surprise the chromium installed without any issues.
>> Is this a standard thing to do? I didn't see any instructions and I had no
>> idea what those other files were.  Thanks again.
>>
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>> Marc F.
>>
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I guess I need to look up how to install additional repos then, eh!? :)

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Marc F.

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