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Bob_Crent

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Registered: 2021-06-14

Posts: 3

Ungoogled-chromium and pre-built binaries

Hi all,

I have a general question about the AUR and packages in general.

I use ungoogled-chromium which I installed with yay. However, since it doesn't come pre-built from that AUR, I need to recompile it each time I update my AUR packages which takes around 45 minutes to complete. Obviously this is a little bit of an inconvenience, and I'd like to find a way around this if possible. The pinned comment by the maintainer on the AUR says that pre-built binaries can be found here, but I've always understood that installing apps from direct downloads on any linux distro is a bad idea as it won't be managed by your package manager.

So my question is, is there something I've misunderstood about this situation? Are my only two options to recompile ungoogled chromium every time i update or to remember to download the new binaries each time? OR is there a way to make my package manager download the binaries that I'm not aware of.

Cheers for the help.

Last edited by Bob_Crent (2021-06-14 16:55:18)

Vello

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Registered: 2020-12-23

Posts: 9

Re: Ungoogled-chromium and pre-built binaries

You can use an unofficial repository. For example, jlk has pre-built ungoogled-chromium.

Bob_Crent

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Registered: 2021-06-14

Posts: 3

Re: Ungoogled-chromium and pre-built binaries

You can use an unofficial repository. For example, jlk has pre-built ungoogled-chromium.

Thanks for the reply! I'm reading up on adding unofficial user repos. How does one quickly find out which unofficial repositories have which packages? Or is it just a case of knowing where to look?

Also, on jlk's README I find this line: "Modified packages from the official repositories have the original name and are members of the modified package group. It is assumed that IgnoreGroup = modified is present in the pacman.conf, therefore you have to manually upgrade the package whenever a new version appears in the repository."
I've checked and my pacman.conf does not have the IgnoreGroup = modified line in it. Is this something I should have turned on? I don't want to be manually updating anything, as I know I'll forget

Vello

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Registered: 2020-12-23

Posts: 9

Re: Ungoogled-chromium and pre-built binaries

How does one quickly find out which unofficial repositories have which packages? Or is it just a case of knowing where to look?

You can search on pkgs.org. It has some unofficial Arch repositories.

Is this something I should have turned on? I don't want to be manually updating anything, as I know I'll forget

As long as you're not planning to use modified packages, you should be fine without any additional configuration or manual updates. Just be sure to put unofficial repositories below the official ones in the config file.

eschwartz

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Registered: 2014-08-08

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Re: Ungoogled-chromium and pre-built binaries

The pinned comment by the maintainer on the AUR says that pre-built binaries can be found here, but I've always understood that installing apps from direct downloads on any linux distro is a bad idea as it won't be managed by your package manager.

"direct downloads" meaning untarring the application?

Because the link lists various locations for getting unofficial pacman repos containing the package. HOWEVER if it linked you to a prebuilt .pkg.tar.zst which you installed via pacman -U, this is still fine since it would be managed by pacman, just like installing a plain .deb on Debian would be fine.

Granted, pacman -Syu would not *update* it... just like getting an AUR package via PKGBUILD and makepkg -i would not update it, but you'd install a raw .pkg.tar.zst via pacman -U

Last edited by eschwartz (2021-06-15 03:38:30)

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