Armin:

> As if you can build google chrome from source, >
> I highly doubt it because it's closed source.

If we're talking about google chrome _browser_,
it has always looked extremely open to me.
Has many problems (IMHO), but opaqueness has
never been one.

-- Alex



On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Armin K. <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 07/19/2013 04:47 PM, Niels Terp wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> >
> > I have now installed RPM, and it seems to work. But when I tried to
> > install Webmin from a RPM, I got errors like “Webmin .. needs /bin/sh”
> >
> >
> >
> > I found a very nice script (in the Linux Cookbook) to find things that
> > has been compiled from source, and include them in a emty RPM, which can
> > then be installed – then you should have everything in RPM. But even
> > this I can’t install, because of the same dependency.
> >
> >
> >
> > Does anyone know a shortcut to include all the “normal” linux commands
> > in the RPM database, or do I have to build LFS with RPM-support from the
> > beginning ?
> >
> >
> >
> > The reason why I want RPM is, that I have not been able to build the
> > Google Chrome browser from source, while on my host system (Suse) it is
> > a matter of downloading and installing a RPM. So in case it is not
> > possible to get RPM to work on a finished system, I could certainly need
> > some advice on building Chrome from source !
> >
> >
> >
> > Niels
> >
>
> Just grab the .deb package of the chrome and extract it ... I don't
> think building rpm because of one browser is worth the effort (yet I've
> built entire multilib toolchain because of Skype - doh!).
>
> .deb file just contains ar compressed .tar.gzs, one contains the data
> (data.tar.gz) and other contains package information. You need the data
> one, just extract the deb using "ar x google-chrome-whatever.deb" (note
> it's ar, not tar!) and extract data.tar.gz on your filesystem using cd /
> ; tar xf /path/to/data.tar.gz (/path/to/data.tar.gz is where you ran ar
> x on the google-chrome deb).
>
> You need to run ldd on google chrome binaries to see which libraries are
> you missing (they're in /opt/google/chrome hierarchy) and symlink the
> .desktop files itself from /opt/google/chrome hierarchy into
> /usr/share/applications to get the entry on the desktop menu.
>
> >From memory, you need NSS, Mspr, GTK+2, Alsa and GConf packages.
>
> As if you can build google chrome from source, I highly doubt it because
> it's closed source. But you can build chromium, on which google chrome
> is based. I don't recommend it though, people say it's PITA. You can
> look at archlinux pkgbuilds if you really want to build the browser.
>
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