[SOLVED] Problems With Chromium + Recommended Software? - Page 2

Gracenote · #16 22nd March 2012, 02:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by marko

What exactly goes wrong when you try to make the file as root? Does it actually say some kind of error on the terminal or there's just no effect?

No error "just command not found". I'm not really sure how to make the file though perhaps this is the problem I may just not be doing it right.

nonamedotc · #17 22nd March 2012, 02:22 AM

Excellent, try this in the root shell

Code:

cd /etc/yum.repos.d/

curl http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/spot/chromium/fedora-chromium-stable.repo -o fedora-chromium-stable.repo

marko · #18 22nd March 2012, 02:24 AM

Did you just recently install wget ?

The shell won't find a new command unless:

1) the shell was started after the command was installed
2) the "hash" or "rehash" command is run to force the shell to rescan the path if the shell was launched before the command or application was installed.
3) the command's directory has to be on the path, /usr/bin is like the most important unix path directory there is so I really doubt your shell doesn't have this
set

Post the results of all these:

which wget

echo $PATH

Gracenote · #19 22nd March 2012, 02:27 AM

Ah that worked thank you ever so much! I owe you one.

nonamedotc · #20 22nd March 2012, 02:30 AM

Glad it worked! Cheers.

marko · #21 22nd March 2012, 02:30 AM

If this is totally solved, please go to "Thread Tools" at the top of the page and hit the "mark thread solved" (it might be titled a bit different, but that's the gist, I think it's the bottom one in the menu)

Gracenote · #22 22nd March 2012, 02:30 AM

I installed it via the add/remove software app. I'm sorry that took so long I've never used Linux before to be honest I struggle with Windows.

Thank you very much for your time I really appreciate it.

PabloTwo · #23 22nd March 2012, 02:31 AM

Plus 1 for Glen's instructions in post #3.
Why point someone to spot's repo when the official google repo works so well and is updated more frequently?

Why not just go to the Google-chrome download site and select the button next to "64 bit .rpm (For Fedora/openSUSE)", then click on the "Accept and Install" button? Talk about "easy". That package will install both the official repo and the browser at the same time if I recall correctly.

Edit: Oh, never mind if it's a done deal already.... fast moving thread.

marko · #24 22nd March 2012, 02:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PabloTwo

Plus 1 for Glen's instructions in post #3.
Why point someone to spot's repo when the official google repo works so well and is updated more frequently?

Why not just go to the [url=https://www.google.com/chrome/eula.html?platform=linux[Google-chrome download site[/url] and select the button next to "64 bit .rpm (For Fedora/openSUSE)", then click on the "Accept and Install" button? Talk about "easy". That package will install both the official repo and the browser at the same time if I recall correctly.

Because some people don't want to run Google Chrome (Chromium != Google Chrome). I prefer Chromium because it has most of the Google stuff removed. The original poster seemed to want Chromium and not Chrome
I personally only use chromium to activate the public wireless when I go to starbucks so I don't have be hassled with modifying my noscript settings (most public wireless cafe code do things noscript doesn't like)

PabloTwo · #25 22nd March 2012, 03:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by marko

Because some people don't want to run Google Chrome (Chromium != Google Chrome). I prefer Chromium because it has most of the Google stuff removed. The original poster seemed to want Chromium and not Chrome

Well that's a very good reason then I suppose. And I guess I failed to make the distinction between google-chrome and chromium.

***glennzo*** · #26 22nd March 2012, 08:28 AM

Hey! I didn't know there was a difference between Chrome and Chromium either.

nonamedotc · #27 22nd March 2012, 08:55 AM

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Originally Posted by glennzo

Hey! I didn't know there was a difference between Chrome and Chromium either.

Well, yeah there is. Just to save you the trouble - Differences from Chromium project

From Wikipedia,

Quote:

Differences from Google Chrome

Chromium is the name given to the open source project and the browser source code released and maintained by the Chromium Project. It is possible to download the source code and build it manually on many platforms. Google takes this source code and adds:

an integrated Flash Player
a built-in sandboxed PDF viewer
the Google name and logo
an auto-updater system called GoogleUpdate
an opt-in option for users to send Google their usage statistics and crash reports
RLZ tracking when Chrome is downloaded as part of marketing promotions and distribution partnerships. This transmits information in encoded form to Google, e.g. when and from where Chrome has been downloaded. In June 2010, Google confirmed that the RLZ tracking token is not present in versions of Chrome downloaded from the Google website directly or in any version of Chromium. The RLZ source code was also made open source at the same time so that developers can confirm what it is and how it works.

By default, Chromium only supports Vorbis, Theora and WebM codecs for the HTML5 audio and video tags; whereas Google Chrome supports these plus AAC and MP3. On 11 January 2011, the Chrome Product manager, Mike Jazayeri, announced that Chrome will no longer support the H.264 video format for its HTML5 player, equally as Chromium does not. Certain Linux distributions may add support for other codecs to their customized versions of Chromium.

I believe this is one of the "Google stuff" that Marko was referring to.