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Chromium and Ungoogled Chromium DNF Repository
vddvss:
I am pleased to announce a DNF repository for PPC64LE Chromium and Ungoogled Chromium builds. The repo should work for RHEL or CentOS, but it is only tested on Fedora. These builds only work for POWER9 little endian.
Thanks to awordnot for much of the work on the patches and dftxbs3e for work on Ungoogled Chromium.
Further details and source, as well as tarballs and RPMs that should work on any RPM-based distro, are available at https://gitlab.com/chromium-ppc64le/chromium-ppc64le.
Installation
To enable the repository, run:
--- Code: ---sudo dnf config-manager --add-repo=https://gitlab.com/chromium-ppc64le/chromium-ppc64le/raw/master/chromium-ppc64le.repo
--- End code ---
Alternatively, you can download the chromium-ppc64le.repo file from the repository and place it in /etc/yum.repos.d.
After adding the repository, run:
Standard Chromium
--- Code: ---sudo dnf install chromium-browser-stable
--- End code ---
Ungoogled Chromium
--- Code: ---sudo dnf install ungoogled-chromium-browser-stable
--- End code ---
Important Note for Existing Users of Ungoogled Chromium
In order to allow parallel installation of both versions of Chromium, this repository contains a patch to change the default location of the Ungoogled Chromium profile from ~/.config/chromium to ~/.config/ungoogled-chromium.
To use your existing profile with Ungoogled Chromium, simply run:
--- Code: ---mv ~/.config/chromium ~/.config/ungoogled-chromium
--- End code ---
Notes on Binaries
This build includes a number of additional patches and features:
Patches Included
[*] Patch to enable GPU-accelerated video decoding
[*] Patch to change the browser's user agent string to be the same as the official Chrome build on Linux, which helps reduce the browser's fingerprinting surface
[*] Patch to enable use of POWER VSX instructions in the skia rendering engine
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Features Enabled
[*] Link-time optimized builds
[*] PulseAudio integration
[*] Non-free codecs
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Build Logs
The logs for the build and repo creation are available under GitLab pipelines.
MauryG5:
Great job, it was a long time since I wanted to understand how Chromium was installed, of which Raptor had spoken well and recommended for Power. Just installed and I must say that it works very well. Thanks vddvss for the procedure!
MauryG5:
Hi, even if I registered at the site where the link takes me, I could not find these patches for the GPU you are talking about ... How should I download and install them if I wanted to do it for my AMD RX 5700 XT in case is compatible of course ... The browser already works very well, but if there is a way to further increase the performance and make better use of the graphics card it would be the best ...
vddvss:
--- Quote from: MauryG5 on February 08, 2020, 04:39:55 am ---Hi, even if I registered at the site where the link takes me, I could not find these patches for the GPU you are talking about ... How should I download and install them if I wanted to do it for my AMD RX 5700 XT in case is compatible of course ... The browser already works very well, but if there is a way to further increase the performance and make better use of the graphics card it would be the best ...
--- End quote ---
Could you go to chrome://gpu then click 'Copy Report to Clipboard`, save it as a file, and post as an attachment here?
MauryG5:
Sorry but are we obliged to register on the site just to download a patch? It seems excessive to me ... Now for example it denies me access ...
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