On 07/19/2013 12:20 PM, Armin K. wrote: > On 07/19/2013 04:47 PM, Niels Terp wrote: >> Hi, >> >> >> >> I have now installed RPM, and it seems to work. But when I tried to >> install Webmin from a RPM, I got errors like “Webmin .. needs /bin/sh” >> >> >> >> I found a very nice script (in the Linux Cookbook) to find things that >> has been compiled from source, and include them in a emty RPM, which can >> then be installed – then you should have everything in RPM. But even >> this I can’t install, because of the same dependency. >> >> >> >> Does anyone know a shortcut to include all the “normal” linux commands >> in the RPM database, or do I have to build LFS with RPM-support from the >> beginning ? >> >> >> >> The reason why I want RPM is, that I have not been able to build the >> Google Chrome browser from source, while on my host system (Suse) it is >> a matter of downloading and installing a RPM. So in case it is not >> possible to get RPM to work on a finished system, I could certainly need >> some advice on building Chrome from source ! >> >> >> >> Niels >> > Just grab the .deb package of the chrome and extract it ... I don't > think building rpm because of one browser is worth the effort (yet I've > built entire multilib toolchain because of Skype - doh!). > > .deb file just contains ar compressed .tar.gzs, one contains the data > (data.tar.gz) and other contains package information. You need the data > one, just extract the deb using "ar x google-chrome-whatever.deb" (note > it's ar, not tar!) and extract data.tar.gz on your filesystem using cd / > ; tar xf /path/to/data.tar.gz (/path/to/data.tar.gz is where you ran ar > x on the google-chrome deb). > > You need to run ldd on google chrome binaries to see which libraries are > you missing (they're in /opt/google/chrome hierarchy) and symlink the > .desktop files itself from /opt/google/chrome hierarchy into > /usr/share/applications to get the entry on the desktop menu. > > >From memory, you need NSS, Mspr, GTK+2, Alsa and GConf packages. > > As if you can build google chrome from source, I highly doubt it because > it's closed source. But you can build chromium, on which google chrome > is based. I don't recommend it though, people say it's PITA. You can > look at archlinux pkgbuilds if you really want to build the browser. >
You can also fetch the chrome rpm binary and using cpio or ark extract it as well. What I did was to fetch the chrome rpm.spec and used rpmbuild to build it for my LFS based system. Rpm will handle all the ldd/script stuff and leave you with a proper rpm package to install anywhere you like. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
