ungoogled-chromium-archlinux

Arch Linux packaging for ungoogled-chromium.

Downloads

In the AUR there are multiple ungoogled-chromium flavors:

ungoogled-chromium : regular ungoogled-chromium
ungoogled-chromium-ozone : ungoogled-chromium but with flags that enable ozone support - useful for wayland users
ungoogled-chromium-git : ungoogled-chromium but using the master branch of upstream UC patches.

Binary Downloads

You can get pre-built binaries from the following sources, just follow the instructions on each site:

Contributor Binaries website - Binaries contributed by ungoogled chromium users.

Unofficial Repositories:

chaotic-aur - Maintained by PedroHLC
jk-aur - Maintained by JustKidding

All issues should go to their respective maintainers.

Building

You only need to download the PKGBUILD from this repository. After that, run this command:

makepkg

If the build succeeds, you can run makepkg --install or pacman -U ungoogled-chromium-*.pkg.*. Running the latter requires you to be in sudo or root.

Hardware Requirements

A 64-bit system is required, as Arch has dropped 32-bit support. 8 GB of RAM is highly recommended (per the document in the Chromium source tree under docs/linux_build_instructions.md).

Developer info

Updating docker image

You can forcefully update the docker image used for CI by committing any change to the .cirrus_Dockerfile file. This is particularly important to try when validate_makepkg_task is failing for unknown reasons.

Update submodule

The submodule is primarily needed for devutils. Use devutils/update_submodule.sh to update the submodule.

Update patches

You need to clone the entire repository, along with the submodules, with this command:

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium-archlinux

You should update the submodule first. After that, do this entire section below:

./devutils/update_patches.sh merge
source devutils/set_quilt_vars.sh

# Setup Chromium source
mkdir -p build/{src,download_cache}
./ungoogled-chromium/utils/downloads.py retrieve -i ungoogled-chromium/downloads.ini -c build/download_cache
./ungoogled-chromium/utils/downloads.py unpack -i ungoogled-chromium/downloads.ini -c build/download_cache build/src

cd build/src
# Use quilt to refresh patches. See ungoogled-chromium's docs/developing.md section "Updating patches" for more details
quilt pop -a

cd ../../
# Remove all patches introduced by ungoogled-chromium
./devutils/update_patches.sh unmerge
# Ensure patches/series is formatted correctly, e.g. blank lines

# Sanity checking for consistency in series file
./devutils/check_patch_files.sh

# Use git to add changes and commit

Afterwards, update _ungoogled_version in PKGBUILD to the same tag the submodule is using (cd into the submodule, then use git describe to get the needed tag).

License

See LICENSE

Mathew-D/ungoogled-chromium-archlinux