Linuxulator / Chrome

[Mark Saad]

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Mark Saad | nonesuch at longcount.org
> On Jun 3, 2017, at 10:20 AM, Mason Loring Bliss <mason at blisses.org> wrote:
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> [Posted to freebsd-questions last night, but there's probably a better
> chance of someone having done this here.]
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> Hi all. Will Chrome work on Linuxulator if I chase down enough dependencies?    

I don't see why not . But you will need to get the alsa/oss parts working . I would check out cooltrainer 

https://cooltrainer.org/a-freebsd-desktop-howto/

Th sections on Skype audio are going to come in handy .

> I'm trying to get BlueJeans running, and it's balking in both Firefox and       
> Chromium on FreeBSD (11-STABLE) so I figured I'd give Chrome under the          
> Linuxulator a try. I hit several missing libraries until I realized I needed    
> to install the whole linux-c6 (also tried linux-c7) suite.                      
> 

If you have qemu you can try this . Create a new vm with a raw disk , boot up qemu with the centos 6 DVD do a ext4 disk setup with out lvm and a full desktop install . Then from qemu and that install try to get chrome working .Power off the vm .Then once done using mdconfig attach the raw disk and mount it and copy that into a local dir for use as your Linux base . The. Give chrome a try . While involved it worked int the past for some app I had to deal with . 

> Once that was done, I hit this:                                                 
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>    ./chrome: error while loading shared libraries: libgconf-2.so.4: cannot     
>    open shared object file: No such file or directory                          
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> We don't seem to have a package for it.                                         
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> I tried running ldd to see what other libraries I'd need, but the ldd in        
> /compat bailed out, saying "missing file". I suspect it's not intended to be    
> used, as it has /bin/bash in the shebang line. The native LDD was unhappy       
> with the Chrome binary.                                                         
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> I've now pulled out a list of libraries from a Linux machine where I could      
> run ldd, and I can collect the libraries by hand from Linux to populate         
> /compat, but I'm really interested in knowing if anyone's gotten Chrome         
> working this way, or if I'll run into known obstacles once I have all the       
> libraries in place.                                                             
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> Thanks!                                                                         
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> Mason Loring Bliss            mason at blisses.org            http://blisses.org/  
> The sand bats of Manark IV look like inanimate rock crystals until they attack.


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Mark Saad | nonesuch at longcount.org