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While repurposing an old G5 I had laying around, I decided to put Debian 8 on it. When I went to install Chromium I found that it is not in the package repository.

Luckily the package can still be built from source using apt-get.

• Install git:
  

  apt-get install git
  

Install depot_tools¶

• Make a temporary bin directory:
  

  mkdir ~/bin && cd ~/bin
  

• Fetch depot_tools:
  

  git clone https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/tools/depot_tools.git
  

• Add depot_tools to your PATH:
  

  export PATH=`pwd`/depot_tools:"$PATH" 
  

Build V8¶

• Create a git directory:
  

  mkdir ~/git && cd ~/git
  

• Clone the v8ppc code:
  

  git clone https://github.com/ibmruntimes/v8ppc.git
  

Build Chromium¶

• Build Chromium from source using apt-get:
  

  apt-get build-dep chromium
  apt-get source chromium
  

NOTE: Chromium currently will not build on PowerPC due to lack of support for the V8 javascript engine. There appears to be a port of V8 to PowerPC, but I haven't yet tested it.

Resources¶

• https://wp.colliertech.org/cj/?p=1342
• https://github.com/ibmruntimes/v8ppc
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2015/09/msg00014.html
• http://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/install-depot-tools