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Feature #818

Updated by Daniel Curtis over 8 years ago

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. 

 * Build Chromium from source using apt-get: 
 <pre> 
 apt-get build-dep chromium 
 apt-get -b source chromium 
 </pre> 

 *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. 

 h2. Resources 

 * https://wp.colliertech.org/cj/?p=1342 
 * https://github.com/ibmruntimes/v8ppc 
 * https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2015/09/msg00014.html

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