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Slenkar's already up to speed, thank you.

added thread to wiki, thanks
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/chromium

Wow... something I made made it onto the WIki...


I feel awesome now.

Okay, tested and functioning on Slacko.

You need to install GConf first, but this can be installed in <2 minutes from the Puppy Package Manager (including startup time and everything.)

Can you edit the wiki to mark my package as being Slacko-compatible?


Next up: Some serious Lucid testing.

Do you think it would work on Puppy 4.31, jakfish was asking about Chrome for that Puppy version here-
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=84309

I don't know.

Perhaps someone could give it a shot, and then post the results here? If not, I'd be happy to give it a go.

Please provide SFS format. so that we can test it in frugal installation.

Okay, I uploaded an SFS. I don't see why it's necessary, though. I have a frugal install, and I can test mine just fine. When you want to uninstall, just uninstall from PPM.

One most important use of SFS file is that it can use other puppy projects. Especially in Archpup etc. I feel, it reduce Savefile?

How to add flashplayer to this "Chromium"?
I cant play youtube in this browser.
TK

rameshiyer wrote:One most important use of SFS file is that it can use other puppy projects. Especially in Archpup etc. I feel, it reduce Savefile?

That's true, I use many Puppies as frugal install to one flash drive, along with all SFS files I usually load.

You can use shinobar's Extract-makepet ↓ utility to extract the .pet in /root/ (if you have much RAM space), then in a terminal window type dir2sfs /root/nameofextractedfolder and the SFS file will be created, copy it to the desired location and then delete the file from /root/ so that it doesn't take RAM space. You can also use a Linux partition with enough space instead of the RAM, in fact this is the recommended.

vanchutr wrote:How to add flashplayer to this "Chromium"?
I cant play youtube in this browser.
TK

Go to Menu>Internet>GetFlash Install Flashplayer, choose the latest one (or whichever version you prefer,) then after it finishes installing, restart Chromium. Test to see if it's installed by going to http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/. (If you see the animation, it's working. Also, it displays your version number. Mine is 11,2,202,270.)

If it doesn't seem to be working (e.g, YouTube won't play,) try going to chrome://plugins and try checking the "Always Allowed" box next to Adobe Flash Player. (Also, unless you are a l33t h@xx0r (elite hacker) and have the restricted h.264 codec, go to https://www.youtube.com/html5 and make sure you are NOT in the HTML5 trial.)

Works on Precise and Slacko. Will test once I get around to installing and testing Lucid (I don't see any reason why it shouldn't work; if somebody beats me to the punch, please post the results here.)

[quote="in a terminal window type dir2sfs /root/nameofextractedfolder and the SFS file will be created, copy it to the desired location and then delete the file from /root/ so that it doesn't take RAM space. You can also use a Linux partition with enough space instead of the RAM, in fact this is the recommended.[/quote]

Thank you. I will try it.

rameshayer wrote:

in a terminal window type dir2sfs /root/nameofextractedfolder and the SFS file will be created, copy it to the desired location and then delete the file from /root/ so that it doesn't take RAM space. You can also use a Linux partition with enough space instead of the RAM, in fact this is the recommended.

Thank you. I will try it.

Hey... I've already released an sfs... no need to make it yourself...

JamesTheAwesomeDude wrote:

rameshayer wrote:

in a terminal window type dir2sfs /root/nameofextractedfolder and the SFS file will be created, copy it to the desired location and then delete the file from /root/ so that it doesn't take RAM space. You can also use a Linux partition with enough space instead of the RAM, in fact this is the recommended.

Thank you. I will try it.

Hey... I've already released an sfs... no need to make it yourself...

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

rameshiyer wrote:

JamesTheAwesomeDude wrote:

rameshayer wrote: Thank you. I will try it.

Hey... I've already released an sfs... no need to make it yourself...

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

Okay, version 27 is in the making! I'm uploading it as we speak.

There are a few relatively insignificant changes:

• Made the 16px icon better - Switched from a scaled version of the 48px icon to a fancy SVG render, straight to 16x16
• The post-install script opens GetFlash (HOWEVER, you can simply close the window if you don't want it,) this was done in response to the the number of people asking how to install flash player.
• Post-install also opens up a page where you can install an auto-updater extension. Again, this is completely optional; if you don't want it, just close the tab.
• (I don't think anybody cares about this one): /usr/bin/chromium now runs exec /opt/chromium/chrome-wrapper "$@" instead of exec /opt/chromim/chrome "$@". As with the other changes, you can undo this one if you want.

Will it suitable for Racy 5.5 or Wary ? Earlier, I have tried several times the Chromium with Racy or Wary. No result due to dependency problem. Please provide separate library package pet, if possible.

What's it needing? There were some mild dependency issues with Slacko, as well. Turns out it just needed Gconf.

Try typing "ldd /opt/chromium/chrome" and posting the output here.

Thanks so much! I couldn't find this in Puppy's Package manager. It needs to be there. Most users probably never visit the forums.