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. > > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page >
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