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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 1:21 AM, Umut KARCI <span
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I'm very grateful for your work on raspbian, I've been using it since
the first pi. But currently I'm having a problem. I've upgraded to
Jessie lately. Since yesterday, I can't install chromium browser, I
checked mirrors and main repo, source packages are there but no deb
packages.<br>
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Debian dropped arm support from their chromium packages because I
couldn't get it to work when built with the toolchain Debian had at the
time (this was in wheezy) and noone else was stepping up to fix it
either. It was crashing and I was unable to get a usable backtrace from
the crash.<br>
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See <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=696909">https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=696909</a> for more
information on the many issues we had trying to keep chromium working
on armhf.<br>
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raspbian wheezy continues to ship the last chromium package I managed
to make work. We are not currently shipping a chromium package in
raspbian jessie. I don't recall exactly why I removed it but I think
that the old version of chromium was no longer compatible with new
library versions or something like that.<br>
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If there is to be a supported chromium package in raspbian going
forward it needs to be dealt with on the Debian side first.
Unfortunately chromium seems to be the package from hell.<br>
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It looks like since that time that the Debian chromium maintainers have
tried to reenable armhf support on two occasions (in versions
28.0.1500.71-1 and 29.0.1547.57-3+exp1) but in both cases the package
failed to build. ccing the chromium maintainers to see if they have any
comments.<br>
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<div>Are you recompiling jessie packages for better armv7 support?<br>
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The whole point of raspbian is to provide support for armv6. If you
want armv7 optimised packages use Debian armhf.<br>
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