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aworan

Jun 103

Hi,

There is a problem since months with chromium, standard installation don't work !

There is an error launching chromium and it don't start !

A bug report is open in launchpad but it isn't fixed yet.

This is a workaround to install and have chromium working !

Remove chromium installation

sudo apt-get remove chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra chromium-browser chromium-browser-l10n

Next we have to download chromium for ubuntu 14.04, I know it is strange but the package for ubuntu
14.04 work with ubuntu mate 16.04 !

(I try to do a diff between the two version package but it is in the binary files).

Download the packages from launchpad

wget https://launchpad.net/~canonical-chromium-builds/+archive/ubuntu/stage/
+build/9739240/+files/chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra_50.0.2661.102-
0ubuntu0.14.04.1.1117_armhf.deb https://launchpad.net/~canonical-chromium-builds/
+archive/ubuntu/stage/+build/9739240/+files/chromium-browser_50.0.2661.102-
0ubuntu0.14.04.1.1117_armhf.deb http://launchpadlibrarian.net/259414466/chromium-browser-
l10n_50.0.2661.102-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.1117_all.deb https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-security/
+archive/ubuntu/ppa/+build/8993250/+files/libgcrypt11_1.5.3-2ubuntu4.3_armhf.deb
Install the packages

sudo dpkg -i libgcrypt11_1.5.3-2ubuntu4.3_armhf.deb

sudo dpkg -i chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra_50.0.2661.102-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.1117_armhf.deb

sudo dpkg -i chromium-browser_50.0.2661.102-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.1117_armhf.deb

sudo dpkg -i chromium-browser-l10n_50.0.2661.102-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.1117_all.deb

Block updates on chromium packages

sudo apt-mark hold chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra chromium-browser chromium-browser-l10n

Then launch chromium :slight_smile:

Note - When a new working release will be available you can unblock packages updating with :

sudo apt-mark unhold chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra chromium-browser chromium-browser-l10n

sudo apt-get upgrade