Chromium and Ungoogled Chromium DNF Repository

[tle]

I am building the RPM version for RHEL/Fedora.

[MauryG5]

Great job well, after so much finally, Chromium is back on Fedora too, it's missing from that famous 87 version when it was still Chromium with Google exsperince, now we can't use it on Power anymore but at least having Chromium is always great, well done great job!

[MauryG5]

I've read that from version 113, Chrome will get more specific support for gpu usage called WebGPU, I've also read that it's coming to Linux as well. Do you think we too will be able to have this possibility once it arrives on Linux?

[Hasturtium]

I am building the RPM version for RHEL/Fedora.

Hey, any updates on this? Are these available anywhere? The parent post provides a repo, but try as I might I can't actually download or install anything from it.

[MauryG5]

From what I remember, when my friend TLE has some application ready, he publishes it immediately in the appropriate discussion so I deduce that he is still stuck on this version of Chromium for Fedora... It's been a long time since Chromium is no longer available on Fedora Power version...

[power9mm]

doesn't work for me on fedora 38 or opensuse tumbleweed, worked fine on opensuse leap 15.4 and 15.5, the RPMs that is, but the binary builds dont work either

[Hasturtium]

Yeah, I'm also wondering what the best solution is. I don't like Chromium, but sometimes I need to have access to it, and hopping over to my MacBook Air or Windows desktop isn't necessarily the best solution.

[tle]

doesn't work for me on fedora 38 or opensuse tumbleweed, worked fine on opensuse leap 15.4 and 15.5, the RPMs that is, but the binary builds dont work either

It no longer work on F38. I have not touched this for a quite awhile. If you have capacity, please give it a try to see if we have to patch anything for F38

[power9mm]

doesn't work for me on fedora 38 or opensuse tumbleweed, worked fine on opensuse leap 15.4 and 15.5, the RPMs that is, but the binary builds dont work either

If you have capacity, please give it a try to see if we have to patch anything for F38

I don't, or I would, and I'd probably be porting more stuff to opensuse if I did. I'm only on fedora right now because of the lack of libs and packages for opensuse on ppc64le. Idk how big endian tumbleweed is.

[MPC7500]

Here are build scripts, also for Chromium
https://github.com/ppc64le/build-scripts

[tle]

Fedora 41 and newer has shipped Chromium PPC64LE build. 

[MauryG5]

Hi everyone,

Just wanted to report an issue with Chromium on ppc64le running on my Raptor Blackbird (POWER9) under Debian / Ubuntu.

It seems a recent build/update broke startup compatibility, causing issues unless specific launch flags are passed.

Workaround / Temporary Fix:
Launching Chromium from the terminal with the following parameters bypasses the issue and allows the browser to run stable again:

chromium-browser --no-zygote --no-sandbox

System Details:

Host: Raptor Blackbird (IBM POWER9)

OS: Debian / Ubuntu / Fedora(ppc64le)

GPU: AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT

Hope this helps anyone else running into the same issue on ppc64le while waiting for an official package update/fix.

[tle]

Has anyone tried to run chromium 154.0.8037.92-1 on Fedora 44 lately? On my side it no longer start.

EDIT: Lodged https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2546551

[MauryG5]

TLE, you confirm too that it doesn't launch anymore. The problem affects all distributions, not just Fedora. If you try launching it from the terminal using the parameters I listed above, it works. The issue lies entirely in the startup process: it freezes when trying to read those two parameters, so a fix needs to be implemented upstream by Raptor...

[tle]

@MauryG5 could you please submit a bug ticket on Debian side and CC Timothy Pearson? Many thanks