[Slackbuilds-users] Issues Building Chromium

[JCA]

A generic question on this: Why is it the case that the Chromium in
SBo is updated so seldom? Why not just adopt Eric's packages?

On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 9:59 AM, Jeremy Hansen <jebrhansen+SBo at gmail.com> wrote:
> The chromium on SBo is extremely old. It would probably be beneficial to use
> Eric's slackbuild (he also provides pre-built packages).
>
> http://www.slackware.com/~alien/slackbuilds/chromium/
>
> As to your issues, have you tried running the slackbuild directly to see if
> it progresses?
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 29, 2016, 11:53 AM Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>
> wrote:
>>
>>    I'm trying to build and install chromium from the SBo site to replace
>> Google's Chrome on a Sony Vaio laptop running -14.1/x86_64 and I'm
>> encountering problems I have not been able to resolve.
>>
>>    Last evening, the chromium.Slackbuild script ran for 107 minutes and
>> halted with an error when a file in the source tree was not found. I shut
>> down the laptop for the night. The MD5SUMs of the dowloaded .xz file and
>> that reported on SBo are the same.
>>
>>    This morning the laptop is _very_ slow responding so I rebooted it.
>> Now,
>> when I run 'time ./chromium.Slackbuild' nothing happens other than the
>> cursor moving to the head of a new line.
>>
>>    'top' shows nothing hogging the CPU or memory.
>>
>>    The script not starting is something I've not before encountered so I
>> have
>> no idea where to look for the reason.
>>
>>    A clue stick is needed to figure out why these issues suddenly
>> occurred.
>>
>> TIA,
>>
>> Rich
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