Ungoogled-chromium does not install
I have tried to follow various instructions to install ungoogled-chromium on T11, including these:
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/packages-trisquel-11-or-any-other#comment-172126
(there is a typo: Jammyl instead of just Jammy)
But I am met with a GPG-error message
W: GPG-fejl: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/ungoogled_chromium/Ubuntu_Jammy InRelease: The following signatures were invalid: EXPKEYSIG 02456C79B2FD48BF home:ungoogled_chromium OBS Project name at domain>
(I have translated this myself, so the wording may not me exact)
How do I solve this?
PS: Is it not true that I saw somewhere that ungoogled-chromium will be in T12's repo?
PPS: What is the main difference between using wget and curl?
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> Is it not true that I saw somewhere that ungoogled-chromium will be in T12's repo?
Yes, it is. If you use Trisquel with the MATE desktop environment and you want to install a system, I suggest you install Trisquel 12.
On Trisquel 11, I installed ungoogled-chromium with Guix, but since at least one week, I can't install a new version, so you would need to put guix on an older commit to be able to install it. If you just want to use ungoogled-chromium, installing Trisquel 12 is really the easiest.
> What is the main difference between using wget and curl?
Both can fetch one file via http(s), for this it probably makes no difference. curl supports many more protocols, while wget supports many options for recursively fetching a whole website.
If you just want to use ungoogled-chromium, installing Trisquel 12 is really the easiest.
Using Flathub is easier. To install Flatpak, setup Flathub's "floss" subset and install Ungoogled Chromium, execute in a terminal:
$ sudo apt install flatpak
$ flatpak remote-add --subset=floss flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
$ flatpak install io.github.ungoogled_software.ungoogled_chromium
If you only want to trust "verified" flatpaks (such as that of Ungoogled Chromium: "Ungoogled Software" provides it), write "verified_floss" instead of "floss": https://docs.flathub.org/docs/for-users/verification
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> On Trisquel 11, I installed ungoogled-chromium with Guix
I just realized that ungoogled-chromium in Guix wasn't updated for two years. I read that the person who used to maintain the Guix package has stopped contributing and no one took over. Then, it seems not a good idea to use ungoogled-chromium from Guix.
Chrome is a disaster tbh :(
There's a need in ff for a compatibility mode like in the ye old time.
I recall many years ago that some websites couldn't load in Firefox because there were only made for Internet explorer thus an addon was made and you could load page as IE compatibility mode and it just worked. There was even one addon that did several web browsers compatibility like opera, ie, safari chrome etc...
We'd need this again but for chrome dependent websites in Firefox. And since all browsers except Firefox&fork are chrome based that would render chrome useless aside for people who don't have the brain flexibility to move out from the chrome GUI, you'd need another addon to fully mimic chrome for that imo.
>"I just realized that ungoogled-chromium in Guix wasn't updated for two years."
Now that Ruben is building it for Trisquel 12, we should probably just switch to that soon.
> I suggest you install Trisquel 12.
Is it mature enough?
I downloaded the amd64 .deb package and worked here in Trisquel 11 Aramo:
wget https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/ungoogled_chromium/Ubuntu_Jammy/amd64/ungoogled-chromium_112.0.5615.165-1_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i ungoogled-chromium_112.0.5615.165-1_amd64.deb
Now you can open ungoogled-chromium with the command below
or find it at applications.
chromium
Done!
EDIT:
I saw that version 112 is from 2023. The latest version today is ungoogled-chromium 138.0.7204.168-1.
Here there are AppImage with latest version:
https://ungoogled-software.github.io/ungoogled-chromium-binaries/
Or you can add the xtradeb PPA for Jammy version - compatible with Aramo:
https://launchpad.net/~xtradeb/+archive/ubuntu/apps
Trisquel's ungoogled-chromium version in Ecne is from the same xtradeb repository: https://archive.trisquel.org/trisquel/pool/main/u/ungoogled-chromium/
I second Magic Banana's suggestion to use Flatpak.
If you don't mind me asking this, why your choice to go with ungoogled-chromium? Or anyone's reasons actually.
I am not criticizing chromium, just really haven't had enough experience with it to actually notice how much it might be better than, say, abrowser?
I do remember in an old Android device, Bromite was running better than Fennec, so I always though it mean chromium based browsers would be slightly less heavy on resources. But is it really enough to make you go through the trouble of installing it?
I am genuinely curious, again this is not a critic of your choice.
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I always install ungoogled-chromium on Trisquel but almost never use it. It already happened that things don't work with abrowser (even without any extension active) but work with ungoogled-chromium so if I ever need to access something urgently and it does not work with abrowser, I prefer to have ungoogled-chromium ready as a backup solution.
I second this.
There are a few websites I have to use which does not funvtion with firefox and derivatives. For those - and for thise only - I use ungoogled chromium.
Yeah, I think that makes sense. I have not been in that situation in so long I had forgotten but you are both right, there have been cases in which a website doesn't work well with *fox based browsers and does with *chromium bases ones.
Thanks!
If you speak of UXP derivatives, there is something that can cure that problem:
Intercept & Modify HTTP Response
It will fix discourse issues for sure in my experience and allow you to login.
And possibly other things get fixed too.
But if problems still remain, Icecat or Abrowser should work fine. I don't see why they wouldn't.