chromedriver_el7

In this repo we collect some infos on building current versions of chromium and chromedriver on CentOS 7.

About

There's several reasons as to why not use the official google-chrome yum repo provided by google.

The chrome packages from this repo do some nasty things to your system, like force-enabling the google repository in your yum.repos.d, and adding a cron job which re-installs the google repo in case you disabled it manually. Of course, this cron job grabs root privileges. Furthermore, google-chrome depends on at and installs and force-enables the atd service in systemd.

All of this is not acceptable, especially when running on a server environment where the stability of a defined environment is the main requirement. So we decided to use rpmbuild to build the chromium and chromedriver binaries from scratch.

The source rpm provided is based on http://people.centos.org/hughesjr/chromium/6/SRPMS/

All we did was adding chromedriver to the spec.

Current Versions

Program	Version
ChromeDriver	2.10
Chromium	38.0.2125.104

Instructions

Do NOT do this as root! You might damage your system!

RPM building will take place in ~/rpmbuild.

Get the SRPM for chromium

wget http://downloads.onrooby.com/chromium/srpms/chromium-browser-38.0.2125.104-1.el7.centos.src.rpm

Check integrity

57fe233ac86080829e48b3825511c86342ad679ef5f3e49c398631ece43a4998 chromium-browser-38.0.2125.104-1.el7.centos.src.rpm```

#### Install (as normal user)
```rpm -ivh chromium-browser-38.0.2125.104-1.el7.centos.src.rpm```

#### Build

cd ~/rpmbuild/SPECS rpmbuild -ba chromium-browser.spec


When rpmbuild complains about missing dependencies (mostly devel packages), install them using
```# yum install <packagenames>``` or alternatively use ```# yum-builddep chromium-browser.spec```

On a CentOS minimal system with ```@'development tools'``` installed, we needed to

```# yum install gtk2-devel atk-devel nss-devel pciutils-devel gnome-keyring-devel cups-devel libudev-devel pulseaudio-libs-devel libXdamage-devel libXScrnSaver-devel libXtst-devel fontconfig-devel GConf2-devel dbus-devel glib2-devel gperf alsa-lib-devel libusb-devel libdrm-devel libcap-devel libexif-devel libgnome-keyring-devel```

## Binaries

We provide pre-built packages. Use at your own risk!

http://downloads.onrooby.com/chromium/rpms/

Packages are signed with our GPG key: http://downloads.onrooby.com/RPM-GPG-KEY-onrooby

## TODO

- Split packages into chromium and chromium-chromedriver