Ungoogled-chromium: How can I install ungoogled-chromium on my Debian Jessie?

[tonowoe]

How can I install ungoogled-chromium on my Debian Jessie? I think I have to build it manually, there's no simple way (yet)? I tried to build it with the instructions found in "Building" page, but I'm not really sure what I should do.

This is what I've tried:

We need Python 3 and Python 2 and Ninja to use buildlib, which is used to install ungoogled-chromium:

user@debian:~$ python3 --version
Python 3.4.2

user@debian:~$ python2 --version
Python 2.7.9

user@debian:~$ apt-get install ninja-build

Because we are using Debian Jessie, we need to do extra steps:

_"Note for Debian Jessie users: ungoogled-chromium is configured to build against the system's FFmpeg (available in Stretch and onwards); Libav (used in Jessie) will not work. However, FFmpeg is available in jessie-backports. To install it, add jessie-backports to the apt sources, and then install libavutil-dev, libavcodec-dev, and libavformat-dev from it. Note that this will replace Libav."_

Okay, let's add jessie-backports to our sources.list:

• Open and edit /etc/apt/sources.list
• Add this to the file deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian jessie-backports main
• Save and exit
• Update and upgrade: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
• Now we need to install the libavutil-dev, libavcodec-dev, and libavformat-dev packages:

sudo apt-get install libavutil-dev libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev

Let's download the ungoogled-chromium:

wget https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium/archive/master.zip
unzip master.zip
cd ungoogled-chromium-master

Okay, we have everything ready to go. Now we need to "invoke"(?) the build.py to install the ungoogled-chromium:

chmod +x build.py
./build.py

This is as far as I can go. build.py throws me an error and the building will fail.

What am I doing wrong?

[9Morello]

Try to build a tag release instead of the master branch.

[Eloston]

This looks like a feature introduced in Python 3.5. Python 3.5 is the default Python 3 version on Debian Stretch, so I hadn't realized I've broken Python 3.4 support. I'll make a quick fix.