Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2017 16:07:18 -0400 From: Mark Saad <nonesuch@longcount.org> To: Mason Loring Bliss <mason@blisses.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linuxulator / Chrome Message-ID: <52995F1D-D4C2-49E4-9B6F-38DF99A0FDE6@longcount.org> In-Reply-To: <20170603142043.GB8701@blisses.org> References: <20170603142043.GB8701@blisses.org>
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--- Mark Saad | nonesuch@longcount.org > On Jun 3, 2017, at 10:20 AM, Mason Loring Bliss <mason@blisses.org> wrote:= >=20 > [Posted to freebsd-questions last night, but there's probably a better > chance of someone having done this here.] >=20 >=20 > Hi all. Will Chrome work on Linuxulator if I chase down enough dependencie= s? =20 I don't see why not . But you will need to get the alsa/oss parts working . I= would check out cooltrainer=20 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 = =20 > Chromium on FreeBSD (11-STABLE) so I figured I'd give Chrome under the = =20 > Linuxulator a try. I hit several missing libraries until I realized I need= ed =20 > to install the whole linux-c6 (also tried linux-c7) suite. = =20 >=20 If you have qemu you can try this . Create a new vm with a raw disk , boot u= p qemu with the centos 6 DVD do a ext4 disk setup with out lvm and a full de= sktop install . Then from qemu and that install try to get chrome working .P= ower 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 ch= rome a try . While involved it worked int the past for some app I had to dea= l with .=20 > Once that was done, I hit this: = =20 >=20 > ./chrome: error while loading shared libraries: libgconf-2.so.4: cannot= =20 > open shared object file: No such file or directory = =20 >=20 > We don't seem to have a package for it. = =20 >=20 > I tried running ldd to see what other libraries I'd need, but the ldd in = =20 > /compat bailed out, saying "missing file". I suspect it's not intended to b= e =20 > used, as it has /bin/bash in the shebang line. The native LDD was unhappy = =20 > with the Chrome binary. = =20 >=20 > I've now pulled out a list of libraries from a Linux machine where I could= =20 > run ldd, and I can collect the libraries by hand from Linux to populate = =20 > /compat, but I'm really interested in knowing if anyone's gotten Chrome = =20 > working this way, or if I'll run into known obstacles once I have all the = =20 > libraries in place. = =20 >=20 > Thanks! = =20 >=20 > --=20 > Mason Loring Bliss mason@blisses.org http://blisses.= org/ =20 > The sand bats of Manark IV look like inanimate rock crystals until they at= tack. --- Mark Saad | nonesuch@longcount.org=
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