Porteus

I tried chromium-53.0.2785.92-i486-1alien (the 14.2 build) in 3.2rc5 and it's dying because it cannot find libavahi-common.so.3

Obviously, I can go hunt that and any dependencies it has down, but since chromium builds from http://www.slackware.com/~alien/slackbu ... romium/pkg were working clean out of the box before, I thought you might want to include that (and its dependencies) in 002-xorg.xzm

-Joshua

The process of getting or updating google-chrome is in a terminal. Building it from the usm package is more problematic: firefox: etc.

Try it its great.

Unfortunately, I need to stay at 32-bit (I don't want to re-build the entire software stack I'm using), and that command says it only works with 64-bit.

jesmith, run these commands as root user

This is from the chromium page:
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chrom ... uctions.md

System requirements

64-bits: x86 builds are not supported on Linux.
Memory: >16GB is highly recommended.
Disk space: Expect a full checkout and build to take nearly 100GB.
Distribution: You should be able to build Chromium on any reasonably modern Linux distribution, but there are a lot of distributions and we sometimes break things on one or another. Internally, our development platform has been a variant of Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahr); we expect you will have the most luck on this platform.

As I said at the top of this thread, I've been using chromium-52.0.2743.116-i486-1alien.xzm which is a 32-bit build that works just fine.

I get that they don't "officially" support it, but until it actually stops working, I'm not going to go rebuilding the rest of a mature and robust existing software stack to move to x64.

Here https://slackbuilds.org/result/?search=avahi&sv=14.2 you can make the module you are needing...
It contains the library libavahi-common.so.3

My chromium packages DO NOT depend on avahi. If you get an error about missing libavahi then this is caused by a Slackware library which is needed by chromium and which you replaced with a 3rd-party precompiled version which DOES depend on avahi.
I'd suggest checking your system.

Using the Porteus-MATE-v3.2rc5-i586.iso dated Sep 4, 2016 as distributed (no patches, no saved files) I downloaded and instalpkg'ed the chromium-54-0.2840.90-i486-1alien.txz, chromium-pepperflash-plugin-23.0.0.205-i386-1alien.txz and chromium-widevine-plugin-48.0.2564.116-i386-1alien.txz packages.

Running "chromium" as user guest is OK: no complaints about libavahi or whatever.
Running "chromium --user-data-dir" as root fails with "[2591:2591:1105/114635:FATAL:setuid_sandbox_client.cc(126)] Check failed: IsFileSystemAccessDenied()." followed by "[2582:2582:1105/114635:FATAL:zygote_impl_linux.cc(196) Check failed: ReceiveFixedMessage(dfs[0], kZygoteHelloMessage, sizeof(kZygoteHelloMessage), &real_pid)."

An ldd scan of all (but a few) executables and libraries gave no hits for avahi.

I used to run chromium as root too. But was no more able to run root with the most recent versions, and I think that google purposedly had made it impossible. If you find the solution good for you.

Personally, I run chromium or google chrome guest within root environment with the following command: If you really want to be able to use a browser in root mode, you can resort to the use of firefox.

Well, I wasn't even aware you could run chromium on 32bit. Apologies. I just installed alienbob's package and it runs nicely. As mentioned, no avahi required.

@jesmith

May be, you could use the Arch packages in Porteus 3.2 environment.
Therefore download "spm-16.12.24-noarch-1.xzm" and activate it.
http://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php? ... 997#p36687

GUI menu:
"archSPM commnans" ---->mkapl---->chromium

You will get chromium.xzm.
chromium-widevine-1:1.4.8.824-i686-1: Version is fixed. will not be updated.
Other packages/libraries are the latest versions at the created time.
(chromium-55.0.2883.87-i686-1: 2016.12.29)

This is chromium.xzm that was gotten by the above procedure.
chromium.xzm (75 M)
http://www.mediafire.com/file/5j0bfctqe ... romium.xzm
md5sum: 1c6684c4a0529244b648e9fddce1edc2 chromium.xzm


Thanks.