[ale] How to Install Chromium?

[Jim Kinney]

The page from the search has something about installing the repo file from
the download site. Then just yum install chromium.

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Marc Ferguson <marcferguson at gmail.com>wrote:

>
>
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 7:38 PM, Marc Ferguson <marcferguson at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> google: chromium rpm fedora. Top link had the address in the text about
>>> 1/3 down page.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Marc Ferguson <marcferguson at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 11:48 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> http://spot.fedorapeople.org/chromium/
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 7:12 PM, Marc Ferguson<marcferguson at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> > On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Jim Philips <
>>>>> briarpatch.jim at gmail.com>
>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> You can download .deb files here:
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> Much easier than building from source. My installed browser doesn't
>>>>> take
>>>>> >> up anything like three gigs.
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Marc Ferguson <
>>>>> marcferguson at gmail.com>
>>>>> >> wrote:
>>>>> >>>
>>>>> >>> Hi Fellas,
>>>>> >>>
>>>>> >>> I find it funny that I have a hard time finding the page to
>>>>> download the
>>>>> >>> Chromium files. I found it last night and downloaded the 800MB+
>>>>> files. I
>>>>> >>> read on their site that Chromium can take up to 3GB of hard drive
>>>>> space? For
>>>>> >>> those of you that have tried it, is that true?  So; now that I have
>>>>> the
>>>>> >>> files, I'll need to build it (Yippie!)  Can someone walk me through
>>>>> it? To
>>>>> >>> be honest, I'm a bit intimidated by the instructions and thus
>>>>> confused.
>>>>> >>>
>>>>> >>> I'm running Fedora 11 x86_64.  Thanks.
>>>>> >>>
>>>>> >>> --
>>>>> >>> Marc F.
>>>>> >>>
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>>>>> > Forgive my ignorance, but isn't .deb files for Ubuntu and other
>>>>> debian-based
>>>>> > systems?  Mine is RPM-based (I'm running Fedora). I don't think an
>>>>> RPM has
>>>>> > been created yet. :(
>>>>> >
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>>>>
>>>> James, seriously, how did you find that link?  Thanks. :)
>>>>
>>>>
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>> Seems simple enough, eh!? I some times suck at searches.
>>
>> --
>> Marc F.
>>
>> "When life gives me lemons... I make Linuxaide, hmm good stuff!"
>>
>>
> Well thanks a lot. I got it working and I'm posting from Chromium.  At
> first I just downloaded the chromium-3.0.193.xxxx.i586 file. I ran into a
> library dependency issue (libv8.so.0). I didn't know where to find that
> library. I search yum, but came up with nothing.  So; I went back to the
> site and downloaded the other v8-xxx.i586 files and installed those first.
> To my surprise the chromium installed without any issues.
> Is this a standard thing to do? I didn't see any instructions and I had no
> idea what those other files were.  Thanks again.
>
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