[DEV] An attempt to package chromium for ppc64le in the official Fedora DNF repo

[tle]

But now mine is working properly again. I thought it was a bug because it happened during an update, so I thought it was just a bug. Instead, it was my Chromium that had a problem, and I had to reinstall everything and delete all the files it retained.
What I'm most disappointed about is that I can't have Chromium on Ubuntu now that this distro finally works well on Power after such a long time. The good thing is that since it's a deb package, it should be fully compatible, but instead I've tried installing it several times, but nothing, it just won't work. What a shame, damn it.

Btw, how much RAM does your chromium normally consume? Mine on Fedora would take around 17GB!, no kidding 17GB!

[MauryG5]

To be honest, I haven't checked this. As soon as I run it and keep it running, I'll check the usage and let you know. 17 GB of RAM is a lot. Do you see it while it's open without browsing, or when you're browsing? Or when you have multiple pages open, let me explain better...

[tle]

To be honest, I haven't checked this. As soon as I run it and keep it running, I'll check the usage and let you know. 17 GB of RAM is a lot. Do you see it while it's open without browsing, or when you're browsing? Or when you have multiple pages open, let me explain better...

When I am browsing I could instantly tell the browser gets a bit laggy

[MauryG5]

It's a little clearer now. I remember when I used it on Fedora, I noticed that it was indeed a little slower than its Debian counterpart, but I never noticed any RAM usage. At this point, I think it's a problem with the Fedora version because on Debian the browser browses well and quickly, so I don't think there are any issues with excessive RAM usage. In any case, as soon as I start it, I'll let you know how much it uses while browsing.

[MauryG5]

I was trying to see how much RAM Chromium on Debian is consuming, but suddenly, after the latest update, it stopped working again. This time, even deleting the files and reinstalling Chromium didn't fix the problem. I'm currently without Chromium on Debian and honestly don't understand what's going on...

Update: I finally managed to install Chromium on Ubuntu. This is because I finally managed to install the jpeg62-turbo lib library, which isn't included in the Ubuntu repositories by default.
Initially, it would close immediately and not work. I thought it was having problems here on Ubuntu too. Then I decided to delete all the old files that were left over from the old Chromium 87 when I installed it on the old Ubuntu 20. At that point, the browser reverted to factory settings and started working normally. Now I can finally use Chromium on Ubuntu 24.4, which makes it even more complete as a Linux distro on Power.

[MauryG5]

To be honest, I haven't checked this. As soon as I run it and keep it running, I'll check the usage and let you know. 17 GB of RAM is a lot. Do you see it while it's open without browsing, or when you're browsing? Or when you have multiple pages open, let me explain better...

I'm currently browsing this site, and the RAM I'm using with Chromium on Ubuntu is around 4 GB total, with 2.2 GB currently cached. I think the average performance on Debian, which works similarly, is very similar or even the same as what I'm currently using on Ubuntu.

[tle]

@madscientist159 hi Tim, I hope you are well and sound. Wondering if the https://gitlab.solidsilicon.io/public-development/open-source/chromium/openpower-patches is still working?

[MPC7500]

This is the repo were Raptor is working on:
https://salsa.debian.org/chromium-team/chromium