Ungoogled-chromium: [ArchLinux] Provide "official" ungoogled-chromium-bin package

[SuperITMan]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Yes, this feature relates to a problem.
Install of ungoogled-chromium via yay or pamac takes more than 4 hours because of build time on Manjaro.

The CPU usage is 100% (+- 80% used by clang++) during the build time.

Describe the solution you'd like

In the README, a link is provided to download binaries: https://ungoogled-software.github.io/ungoogled-chromium-binaries/

We should create a package supported by community based on this binary. It would save hours for lots of people :smiley:

Describe alternatives you've considered

No real alternative except, maybe, buying a new and more powerful computer to build ungoogled-chromium ? :stuck_out_tongue:

Additional context

A package ungoogled-chromium-bin exists already but has been removed yesterday by Arch Linux team. I contacted the person to ask him why he removed the package. I'm waiting for his answer :blush:

Nevertheless, if the package is available again, I think it could be mentioned in the README.md

EDIT:

I re-enabled the package ungoogled-chromium-bin but I guess it could be removed again since there is no apparent link between Eloston/ungoogled-chromium
and zocker-160/ungoogled-chromium-binaries... Maybe it would be nice to provide the binaries in an "official" repo related to this one. What do you think ? :blush:

[mbakke]

No real alternative except, maybe, buying a new and more powerful computer to build ungoogled-chromium ?

You could install GNU Guix (I believe it's in AUR) and use that to install ungoogled-chromium. It has the additional benefit of being verifiably reproducible, not needing root privileges to install/update, and the ability to roll back to any previous version.

Guix can be used on top of any GNU/Linux distribution and won't conflict with your native package manager.

[kevinlekiller]

There's a few user repositories that provide builds for ungoogled chromium, chaotic-aur for example:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Unofficial_user_repositories#chaotic-aur

[SuperITMan]

@mbakke I don't think using Guix besides pacman/yay is a good idea.
I prefer to only use the package manager of my distro :blush:

@kevinlekiller I didn't know those other unofficial user repositories. I'll have a look.
Thanks for sharing! :+1:

[kevinlekiller]

No worries, see "How to use it?" on https://lonewolf.pedrohlc.com/chaotic-aur/

[braewoods]

We are already planning some kind of solution that involves using OBS to build for Arch but we are currently stalled with some general build issues we are having. If anyone cares to help investigate them the official repository is here: https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium-archlinux.git

[Ph0rk0z]

Chaoitc already builds this so why not just point it at them? I first downloaded a version from "binaries" on here and it failed because libraries in arch updated. There was no way to fix it.

[codiflow]

The way using chaotic-aur's repo worked like a charm!