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. * Install git: <pre> apt-get install git </pre> h2. Install depot_tools * Make a temporary bin directory: <pre> mkdir ~/bin && cd ~/bin </pre> * Fetch depot_tools: <pre> git clone https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/tools/depot_tools.git </pre> * Add depot_tools to your PATH: <pre> export PATH=`pwd`/depot_tools:"$PATH" </pre> h2. Build V8 * Create a git directory: <pre> mkdir ~/git && cd ~/git </pre> * Clone the v8ppc code: <pre> git clone https://github.com/ibmruntimes/v8ppc.git </pre> h2. Build Chromium * Build Chromium from source using apt-get: <pre> apt-get build-dep chromium apt-get 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 * http://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/install-depot-tools