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Feature #818

Updated by Daniel Curtis almost 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

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