Re: Building Chromium from source on Debian 6.0.1 Stable

On 05/27/2011 04:15 AM, Mark Grieveson wrote:
Following my previous question, someone recommended I build Chromium
from source. Is that possible to do on Stable? I tried to do it from
apt-get, but there were still dependency issues. Am I doing it wrong?
Should I be doing it another way?

If I remember correctly, I tried...

sudo apt-get source chromium-browser
sudo apt-get build-dep chromium-browser

And before I could compile it using apt-get, it gave me a bunch of
dependency issues. If you need me to I can reproduce this to show you
all.

Any and all help would be greatly appreciated.


I assume you wish to get the latest one, and are thus trying to port
from the unstable source to your stable system. There are two ways
that the Debian manual describes. One is the older obsolete way, and
the other is the newer way. Both work. I'm more used to the older
way, but I'll describe both.

First, make sure you have the source repository listed and updated in
your sources.list:
deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free

The older way:

# apt-get build-dep chromium-browser
$ apt-get -b source chromium-browser

note: if the above step doesn't build the debian files, and lists
other dependencies (IE, some_package version is required, but you
only have a lower version available) then you may be able to
remedy it by obtaining and building that package by source with
the above listed procedure. If so, it means that you would not have
built the package yet, but you should have downloaded the source
files. Once you've obtained, built, and installed all the
dependencies, then you can create the package with the following:

$ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -uc -b

So, you should have the chromium-browser packages (debs). You can
install them with:

# dpkg -i file.deb

the name of the various debs that will be created are listed at
http://packages.debian.org/source/sid/chromium-browser

The newer method is as follows:

Install required packages for the compilation and download the source
package as the following.
# apt-get update
# apt-get dist-upgrade
# apt-get install fakeroot devscripts build-essential
# apt-get build-dep foo
$ apt-get source foo
$ cd foo*
Adjust installed packages if needed.
Execute the following.
$ dch -i
Bump package version, e.g. one appended with "+bp1" in
"debian/changelog" Build packages and install them to the system as the
following.
$ debuild
$ cd ..
# debi foo*.changes

Note: "foo" is a generic name for the package -- in your case it's
chromium-browser

I wouldn't worry about the dch -i step (it's just a step to renumber
the file, or something. You don't need to be root to create the debian
files, but you do for installing them (which is why some commands are
preceded with "$" and others with "#", to indicate if it's regular or
root user). As with the first method, if there are dependencies that
require getting other source packages, then just do the same steps for
those packages, and then try again to build chromium-browser.

Mark



Is it ok that there are all of these dependencies being changed? And
more importantly, is it a problem that some of the packages are being
removed? This is what I have done.

rypervenche@debian:~$ sudo apt-get -t sid build-dep chromium-browser
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
libglade2-dev libgtk2.0-dev libnautilus-extension-dev libpango1.0-dev
seahorse-plugins
The following NEW packages will be installed:
binutils-gold bison cdbs flex gcc-4.6-base gdb gdbserver
gnome-themes-standard gperf gyp hardening-wrapper libbz2-dev
libcairo-gobject2 libcairo-script-interpreter2
libcap2-bin libdbus-glib-1-dev libevent-core-1.4-2 libevent-dev
libevent-extra-1.4-2 libgck0 libgconf2-dev libgcr-3-0 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
libgirepository-1.0-1
libglew1.5 libglew1.5-dev libglewmx1.5-dev libglib2.0-bin
libgnome-keyring-dev libgnutlsxx26 libgtk-3-0 libgtk-3-bin
libgtk-3-common libhunspell-dev libicu-dev
libidl-dev libnspr4-dev libnss3-dev liborbit2-dev libpam0g-dev
libprotobuf-dev libprotobuf-lite7 libprotobuf7 libprotoc7 libspeex-dev
libsqlite3-dev libv8-3.1.8.10
libv8-dev libxcb-shm0-dev libxslt1-dev libxss-dev libxtst-dev lzma
lzma-dev orbit2 patchutils protobuf-compiler ttf-kochi-gothic
ttf-kochi-mincho
ttf-sazanami-mincho wdiff x11proto-record-dev x11proto-scrnsaver-dev xvfb
The following packages will be upgraded:
binutils gnome gnome-core gnome-desktop-environment gnome-keyring
gtk2-engines-pixbuf libcairo2 libcairo2-dev libdbus-glib-1-2
libgail-common libgail18 libgcrypt11
libgcrypt11-dev libglewmx1.5 libglib2.0-0 libglib2.0-dev
libgnome-keyring0 libgnutls-dev libgnutls26 libgpg-error-dev
libgpg-error0 libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-bin
libhunspell-1.2-0 libicu44 libnautilus-extension1 libnspr4-0d
libnss3-1d libpam0g libpango1.0-0 libpcre3 libpixman-1-0 libpixman-1-dev
librsvg2-2 librsvg2-common
libsqlite3-0 libstdc++6 libwmf0.2-7 libxcb-shm0 libxfont1 libxslt1.1
libxss1 libxtst6 nvidia-kernel-source xserver-common
45 upgraded, 64 newly installed, 5 to remove and 1093 not upgraded.
Need to get 99.6 MB of archives.
After this operation, 139 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?

Please let me know if it is ok and/or wise to continue with this. Also,
if I wish to revert this decision later, is there a way change
everything back to the way it was? (aside from manually writing this
list down and replacing all of the programs to the way they originally were)


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