12-25-2018, 08:22 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-26-2018, 02:45 PM by tinkerthinker. Edited 9 times in total.)
Hello Everybody!
It's been a long time since I last posted, But I'm back to fix the annoying problem of chromium 70 on the Tinkerboard!
Backstory: while running an ubuntu chroot on flintos (don't ask), i noticed that chromium 70 worked (but no acceleration).
this made me suspicious that the problem in chromium lay with the Debian build, and that Ubuntu's would work fine on TinkerOS - and I was right!
How to:
first, download the .debs from the following links:
1: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chr..._armhf.deb
2: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chr..._armhf.deb
3: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chr..._armhf.deb
4: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chr..._armhf.deb
then go to the terminal and type sudo apt-get build-dep chromium
then type sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list and replace all instances of "stretch" with "sid" (save with ctrl+x, y then enter)
then type (might not be necessary) sudo apt-get install fonts-liberation
then go to wherever you downloaded the .debs to and type sudo dpkg -i chromium*.deb
then say "merry christmas and a happy new year" and pat yourself on the back
then type sudo apt-get update
then type sudo apt --fix-broken install (libc6? that's the package we need the sid version of)
finally go back to stretch with sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list and change all instances of "sid" back to "stretch", save with ctrl+x, y and enter, then type sudo apt-get update
Note: the ubuntu version of chromium is called chromium-browser while Debian's is just chromium, which means that you will now have two seperate installations of chromium on your OS, this is a good thing, because if chromium 70 fails you can easily revert to 67
start chromium 70 with chromium-browser --use-gl=egl
PS: if I've forgotten or messed up something, let me know in the comments!

BTW: the terminal command for chromium 67 is simply chromium, while 70's is chromium-browser
It's been a long time since I last posted, But I'm back to fix the annoying problem of chromium 70 on the Tinkerboard!
Backstory: while running an ubuntu chroot on flintos (don't ask), i noticed that chromium 70 worked (but no acceleration).
this made me suspicious that the problem in chromium lay with the Debian build, and that Ubuntu's would work fine on TinkerOS - and I was right!
How to:
first, download the .debs from the following links:
1: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chr..._armhf.deb
2: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chr..._armhf.deb
3: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chr..._armhf.deb
4: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chr..._armhf.deb
then go to the terminal and type sudo apt-get build-dep chromium
then type sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list and replace all instances of "stretch" with "sid" (save with ctrl+x, y then enter)
then type (might not be necessary) sudo apt-get install fonts-liberation
then go to wherever you downloaded the .debs to and type sudo dpkg -i chromium*.deb
then say "merry christmas and a happy new year" and pat yourself on the back
then type sudo apt-get update
then type sudo apt --fix-broken install (libc6? that's the package we need the sid version of)
finally go back to stretch with sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list and change all instances of "sid" back to "stretch", save with ctrl+x, y and enter, then type sudo apt-get update
Note: the ubuntu version of chromium is called chromium-browser while Debian's is just chromium, which means that you will now have two seperate installations of chromium on your OS, this is a good thing, because if chromium 70 fails you can easily revert to 67
start chromium 70 with chromium-browser --use-gl=egl
PS: if I've forgotten or messed up something, let me know in the comments!



BTW: the terminal command for chromium 67 is simply chromium, while 70's is chromium-browser