On 05/27/11 at 05:57am, Abhishek Dasgupta wrote: > On 2011-05-27, William Hopkins <we.hopkins@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 05/26/11 at 10:57pm, Perry Thompson wrote: > > > Following my previous question, someone recommended I build Chromium > > > from source. Is that possible to do on Stable? I tried to do it from > > > apt-get, but there were still dependency issues. Am I doing it wrong? > > > Should I be doing it another way? > > > > > > If I remember correctly, I tried... > > > > > > sudo apt-get source chromium-browser > > apt-get source can be run as normal user as well. > > > > sudo apt-get build-dep chromium-browser > > You should build-dep first. > [snip] > > > Any and all help would be greatly appreciated. > > I missed the original thread, can you link it? Why are you building from so= > > urce? Using the debian tools, you'll just end up with an identical copy to = > > the binary version already available. > > Not really, as he is building on stable, using (I guess) the source > from sid, which has the latest version. The command he listed was plain apt-get source, which doesn't imply sid sources. I guess this is what I get for chiming in without reading all the history. > > There is a new distro, Progress Linux [1], which is essentially squeeze > + some backports. Their archive has backports [2] of iceweasel, icedove, > chromium and other common packages. While I have not used the chromium > packages, I did try iceweasel and icedove and it installed OK on my > squeeze system. There is also a source repo for the backports, so you > can see what changes, if any, from the sid version were made to make the I usually find simply building a debian package from the latest sid source provides a working backport. Package dependencies are determined on build from what's present. I do NOT recommend installing deb packages from debian derivatives as this sort of thing is troublesome for your dependency system. Using them for reference is a good idea, though. -- Liam
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