Robert Arkiletian
2013-Feb-12 01:14 UTC
[CentOS] No more support for chrome/chromium on rhel6
plus.google.com/u/0/100132233764003563318/posts/Y1s6T44Soby Not 100% this is true but the problem apparently is that rhel6 uses an old version of gtk2. If this is true, then it affects my school and my students. I like google-chrome and it works very well with google services. I was planning on using C6 for a long time. Does anyone know of a repo that intends to keep Chromium working for C6? -- Robert Arkiletian Eric Hamber Secondary, Vancouver, Canada
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 8:14 PM, Robert Arkiletian <robark at gmail.com> wrote:> plus.google.com/u/0/100132233764003563318/posts/Y1s6T44Soby > > Not 100% this is true but the problem apparently is that rhel6 uses an > old version of gtk2. >No clue here. I don't run X on any of my production systems. And CentOS isn't my desktop distro.> > If this is true, then it affects my school and my students. I like > google-chrome and it works very well with google services. I was > planning on using C6 for a long time. Does anyone know of a repo that > intends to keep Chromium working for C6? >The Fedora Project [0] may maintain Chromium builds for EL6. I know that in the past they've maintained Chromium builds for Fedora. It actually seems like someone [1] might be gearing up to do just that for EL6. Report back if you give that repo a try as others have indicated on the "firefox problem" thread that they use Chrom(e|ium) on CentOS 6. [0] repos.fedorapeople.org [1] repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/leigh123linux/chromium-stable> > -- > Robert Arkiletian > Eric Hamber Secondary, Vancouver, Canada > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >-- ---~~.~~--- Mike // SilverTip257 //
Robert Arkiletian
2013-Feb-12 17:43 UTC
[CentOS] No more support for chrome/chromium on rhel6
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 5:14 PM, Robert Arkiletian <robark at gmail.com> wrote:> plus.google.com/u/0/100132233764003563318/posts/Y1s6T44Soby > > Not 100% this is true but the problem apparently is that rhel6 uses an > old version of gtk2.Update, I just read the issue is also C++11 and gcc 4.6. Apparently, Chromium devs prefer to use the newer c++ standard and that breaks the toolchain on older distros. I think C6 uses gcc 4.4.6. Also rumor is Google and Red Hat are now talking about this issue. I hope a solution can be found. -- Robert Arkiletian Eric Hamber Secondary, Vancouver, Canada
On 12.02.2013 01:14, Robert Arkiletian wrote:> plus.google.com/u/0/100132233764003563318/posts/Y1s6T44Soby > > Not 100% this is true but the problem apparently is that rhel6 uses an > old version of gtk2. > > If this is true, then it affects my school and my students. I like > google-chrome and it works very well with google services. I was > planning on using C6 for a long time.When you make this kind of plans it's always good to reply on as few 3rd party as you can, especially for core components such as the browser. I tried building Chromium in the past for EL6 and I gave up as it was too difficult for me. Of course someone else might succeed in doing so, but even in that case, for how long can he/she keep up with backporting updates and so on? If you plan long term stuff go with the RH provided browser. I'd look into switching back to Firefox. -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! nux.ro