Chromium and Ungoogled Chromium DNF Repository

[MauryG5]

Guys sorry but apart from the Debian and derivative versions, is there a Fedora or other version of Chromium up to date?  I have not seen anything at the moment it seems to me ...

[cchinicz]

Hi All,

I've just upgraded to Fedora 36 (I was already on kernel 5.17) and the upgrade broke my Chromium. I've tried downloading chromium-common_83.0.4103.116-1~deb10u3~ppc64elb4_ppc64el.deb from https://quickbuild.io/~raptor-engineering-public/+archive/ubuntu/chromium/+build/543052 but the install fails with error message "ile /usr/lib from install of chromium-common-83.0.4103.116-2.ppc64le conflicts with file from package filesystem-3.16-2.fc36.ppc64le".

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

[MauryG5]

Have you tried with version 87?  83 is now too old I think ... And then I go back to my same previous question, haven't they released any of the new versions in RPM package for Fedora?  The 8X series are too old versions now ...

[cchinicz]

It's 87 from https://gitlab.com/chromium-ppc64le/chromium-ppc64le, the ungoogled chrome. Standard chromium fail to download:

[FAILED] chromium-browser-stable-84.0.4147.125-1.ppc64le.rpm: Status code: 500 for https://gitlab.com/chromium-ppc64le/chromium-ppc64le/-/jobs/682882047/artifacts/raw/docker-root/target/chromium-browser-stable-84.0.4147.125-1.ppc64le.rpm (IP: 2606:4700:90:0:f22e:fbec:5bed:a9b9)

[MauryG5]

However it is very strange because the standard Chromium version 87 has always worked well on Fedora ... Anyway what I don't know is because nobody talks about new versions that are currently available for Debian and derivatives, I have not found anything about these new versions, made for Fedora ... Here in the forum, no one knows anything apparently and it's even stranger ...

[cchinicz]

Hi  Maury,

I've found this one from Raptor: https://quickbuild.io/~raptor-engineering-public/+archive/ubuntu/chromium/+build/543247 and got excited because it's recent 2022-05-15 and updated version.

I've tried downloading and installing the following packages:

chromium-101.0.4951.64-2.ppc64le.rpm         chromium-driver-101.0.4951.64-2.ppc64le.rpm
chromium-common-101.0.4951.64-2.ppc64le.rpm  chromium-l10n-101.0.4951.64-2.noarch.rpm

but all (except chromium-l10n-101.0.4951.64-2.noarch) gives me an error message:

- nothing provides libjsoncpp.so.24()(64bit) needed by chromium-101.0.4951.64-2.ppc64le
  - nothing provides libwebp.so.6()(64bit) needed by chromium-101.0.4951.64-2.ppc64le

which I could not find on the web.

Package chromium-l10n-101.0.4951.64-2.noarch gives me a different error: file /usr/lib from install of chromium-l10n-101.0.4951.64-2.noarch conflicts with file from package filesystem-3.16-2.fc36.ppc64le

Any ideas?

[MauryG5]

But I didn't understand where you got the RPM files to tell the truth. Apart from that, I have no idea where to find those libraries of course, here the most knowledgeable about Fedora are Classic Has and TLE, except that Classic works on Firefox and so I think you don't use Chromium, TLE used and uses Chromium but I don't have idea if you currently have the latest version installed. I tried to ask but no one answered unfortunately. Maybe MPC7500 knows something because he also used Fedora a lot ... I've been using Debian for some time now, so no more problems thankfully but honestly I've always wondered how to make Chromium work new on Fedora .. .

[MPC7500]

I haven't used Fedora for ages.

But both packages (jsoncpp, libwebp) are available for Fedora:
https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=1886948
https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=1913713

You could also take a look at
https://wiki.raptorcs.com/wiki/Porting/Chromium_(New)

No idea, if it's up-to-date.

[cchinicz]

Thanks MPC7500, I'll try to install them and then Chromium.

[tle]

Thanks MPC7500, I'll try to install them and then Chromium.

It's a while since my last update with this project. I was getting frustrated with the huge amount of work to get it going (plus I was a bit burned out at work too). So if you feel like to contribute to the project, please let me know. I am more than happy to guide people through the process to keep it supported a bit further.

[cchinicz]

Hi TLE, thanks for offering help and support. I turn the Blackbird once a week and I do not have much time either. Anyway, if you can provide some guidance I can try but I'm really not familiar with Git or building code. Regards

[tle]

Quick update: GitLab has officially support podman as runner.

I've updated all repos to schedule builds on workers that run podman instead of docker. This is a big win because it has taken me lots of time to get Docker built and run correctly on CentOS/RHEL/Fedora distros

[tle]

Chromium is a beast! It took avg 1h30 to 2h to compile everything from scratch with my 8 core CPU
I want to keep the chromium-ppc64le project up to date but with huge amount wasted on waiting, I don't think I could be productive because my time for OSS has been scarce due to other commitment

Wondering if anyone could donate an agent or two with access to as many cores as possible? Great thanks

[ClassicHasClass]

Now you know how much pain it was to build TenFourFox. That was about 14 hours with the G5 tied up roaring away.

[MauryG5]

Yes TLE, I also confirm what you say because once I tried compiling version 87 and I remember that it took hours to complete the cycle, I have an 8 core.  But excuse me are you building the latest version Raptor supports with Debian?  I switched to Debian for some time and I use this one and in fact I don't see Fedora versions for example...