On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 2:05 AM, Christopher Svanefalk christopher.svanefalk@gmail.com wrote:
I have built Chromium from source, and currently the only way to start the browser is to execute the shared library file 'chrome' from shell.
I would like to be able to launch it from the normal menu like my other applications, but I do not really know how to do this. Simply creating a symlink in bin breaks dependencies (browser crashes due to inability to load related libraries), and I am not really good enough at shell-work to figure out what else could be done. It is further not possible to launch the file from a normal file browser (system reports that it has no application for handling shared libraries).
Any solution to this?
The Chromium source distribution should contain a shell script to start Chromium. Google's official builds include this in /opt/google/chrome and hardlink it to /usr/bin/google-chrome to start the browser. This is done as part of the build process even for non-official builds, so it's very strange you don't have it.
You can find the wrapper script in the Chromium source distribution here: http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/chrome/tools/build/linux/chr...
Simply copy it to the main Chrome directory and then hardlink it to /usr/bin.
-T.C.