Request MX19 - Ungoogled Chromium

[grelos]

Well, this is basically Chromium without that google thing.

Binaries:

https://ungoogled-software.github.io/un ... -binaries/


There is a version for Debian already:

https://ungoogled-software.github.io/un ... ian/latest

Thank you

[Stevo]

I tried to build it a week ago, but kept getting compiler errors that I can't figure out. Since they already provide a repository for you to add, I'm not putting a high priority on it.

The good news is that UGC, like the MX 19 Chromium, also provides va-api hardware accelerated video decoding for streaming video.

[putih]

Yeah it good dev dont forget i386 32bit edition

[andyprough]

I tried to build it a week ago, but kept getting compiler errors that I can't figure out. Since they already provide a repository for you to add, I'm not putting a high priority on it.

The good news is that UGC, like the MX 19 Chromium, also provides va-api hardware accelerated video decoding for streaming video.

I tried to build it last year and it was a disaster. Not that my compiling skills are anywhere close to yours, but I agree that it's a rough one. Also since that time I found that Brave gave me everything I wanted from ungoogled-chromium and a lot more, without any of the packaging hassle.

[Stevo]

Yeah it good dev dont forget i386 32bit edition

They provide Buster i386, amd64, armhf, and arm64 versions already in their repo.
https://software.opensuse.org/download/ ... d_chromium

We only have a few packagers, this program is extremely heavy (almost 700 MB source code in xz archive), and it already failed to build on my system. We can't waste a lot of time reinventing the wheel.

[JayM]

Can this be "packaged" for MX-19 similar to the way Chrome and Brave were added to Popular Apps/Browsers, by adding their PPA for Debian Buster then installing their browser? Then you wouldn't have to build and maintain a .deb package from source. Also we helpers could check in MXPI when we see that PPA in their Quick System Info and know that it's OK and has been checked by you packagers.

[Stevo]

Well, then you'd request that the maintainer(s) of MXPI add that action to "Browsers".

[JayM]

Well, then you'd request that the maintainer(s) of MXPI add that action to "Browsers".

Oh, is that how that works? I was thinking that the packagers made like a dummy .deb package that ran a script to install the PPAs then the apps or something like that. Live and learn.

[Stevo]

No, MX PI can run the script directly to add the not-a-PPA-its-an-OBS-repo-which-is-different to the files in sources.list/d. That'll save the user from having to copy a few lines of code into the terminal, I guess.

Once the repo is added, it can be left enabled to get any updates that are added to it.

[asqwerth]

...the not-a-PPA-its-an-OBS-repo-which-is-different to the files in sources.list/d. ....

I've been requesting JayM not to call every 3rd party repo a PPA, and keep the latter term for actual Ubuntu-package PPA....

Confuses things.