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Re: Installing Google Chrome 32 bit on netbsd-64



On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 11:23:31AM +0000, Ottavio Caruso wrote:
> I wonder if it is at least theoretically possible to run Google Chrome
> on Netbsd in Linux emulation. I am not even delving into building
> Chromium from sources as I had multiple headaches doing so on Linux.
> 
> If i downloaded the 32 bit .rpm package and converted it with rpm2pkg,
> in which directory would it be unpacked? Would it be a better idea to
> unpack it into /emul/linux32/opt ?
> 
> Or would it be better to unpack it using rpm?
> 
> And should I use the 32 or 64 bit binary?

You'll probably end up having to implement some more linux system calls.
Usually they aren't too bad - just a matter on munging the arguments.

        David

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