Hello David, Isn't ungoogled-chromium already available from Trisquel repositories? I installed it from there on Trisquel 12.
Best regards, Xavi On 30 May 2025 12:28:12 CEST, David Lecompte <[email protected]> wrote: >> > One suggestion could be to use the Guix package manager available at >> > Trisquel. >> >> I shall look into the capability very closely. >> > >On every non-headless Trisquel machine I install for myself or someone else, >I install guix. One reason is to have ungoogled-chromium, as it happens that >a few important websites are not functional enough with abrowser. > >I follow exactly the procedure in the Trisquel wiki for this (there is a >link to it from the "All manuals" page), on Trisquel with MATE environement. >I have used guix once succesfully with KDE on wayland but I recall that some >extra things were needed as KDE did not use /etc/profile.d/guix.sh installed >by the guix package. I should try this again and add to the wiki the extra >configuration needed. > >Two things to note: >- there have been slow response from savannah when running "guix pull", >often getting a 504 error in response. In this case, retrying until it works >can be a solution. However, there is a mirror (which may become or already >have become the main repository, but I did not follow the discussions) on >codeberg which was much faster recently. To use it, add "-- >url=https://codeberg.org/guix/guixhttps://codeberg.org/guix/guix"; after >"guix pull". >- when running "guix install package_xxx" or "guix upgrade", if there are no >substitutes (pre-built binaries) available for some needed packages, your >computer will try building them. If this is ungoogled-chromium, on my >machines, it typically takes several days, if it ever succeeds at all. If >that happens, I just do Control+C to interrupt it and wait a few days before >retrying. It is possible to only upgrade specific packages by running "guix >upgrade package-xxx package-yyy". > >Have a good time with Guix on Trisquel ! > >However, if you use Parabola, you very quickly have the most up-to-date >version of packages. I regularly travel with a computer with Parabola as >only distro installed, it is fine as a daily driver. > >In my opinion, the main drawbacks of Parabola are that: >- Parabola installation is not automatic, you need to do basic configuration >according to the wiki and think of installing all the packages you need >(like the right xorg driver, that I tend to forget), it took me a bit of >time to get it working for the first time, but then it is fine as a daily >driver. You could try it with a virtual maching in Trisquel. To make your >life a little easier, use the systemd option, at least until you get >familiar enough with Parabola. >- It regularly happens that system upgrade (which one should normally do >before installing any package) is not possible, often because some package >in the "libre" repository (from Parabola) needs to be rebuilt due to some >package upgrade in archlinux repositories (used by Parabola). Any failure of >system upgrade should be reported so that Parabola developers are aware and >fix it. Check the issues marked "sticky" and if any matches with your >problem, add a comment to it, otherwise check "recent issues" and if none >matches with your problem, create a bug report. > >-- >David Lecompte <[email protected]> >_______________________________________________ >Trisquel-devel mailing list >[email protected] >https://listas.trisquel.info/mailman/listinfo/trisquel-devel
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