[SOLVED] Does anyone here use Iron in Mageia?

[JoanC]

I have successfully used the Iron web browser in Pardus 2009, but cannot run the latest version in mageia. After reading this topic in the Iron forum http://www.srware.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=2680 , I tried to run Iron from the command line, while logged in to the .Iron directory as user. Bash returns the message: command not found. It would appear there may be dependencies missing.

I realize that the developers may have different priorities and may not have time to fix this for me. If so, has anyone here run the older versions of Iron successfully in magiea? If Iron won't run, I would be willing to try Chrome, but can't find it in the repository. Iron is essentially a more secure version of Chrome.

I'm posting in the Basic Support sub forum because I'm a Linux novice. Any assistance would be appreciated.

[doktor5000]

Is there any particular reason for running iron, instead of chromium from the repositories?

BTW: You can't be logged in into a directory, you can only be logged in as a user.
Also the .iron/ directory is where it keeps its settings, not the program.
The executable should be where you downloaded it and uncompressed it,
also you would need to start it with

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./name-of-iron-executable-here

The "./" part is important, this references the current directory.

[JoanC]

Thanks for the prompt reply.

.Iron is the directory where I unpacked the tar. The executable is iron and Dolphin shows that it is executable when I query the Properties, and that the user has full access. At the command prompt, when I cd to .Iron and type "ls", iron does show as being listed. It is displayed in green with an asterisk.

Typing "./iron" returns:
./iron: error while loading shared libraries: libbz2.so.1.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I had not realized the "." was important.

Iron is promoted as being more secure than chromium. If I understand correctly, this simply means that it has all the "phone home" features turned off by default. I assume I could just turn those off manually. I was looking for "chrome" not "chromium" in the repository, which is why I didn't find it the first time. I see it now.

[doktor5000]

Iron is promoted as being more secure than chromium. If I understand correctly, this simply means that it has all the "phone home" features turned off by default. I assume I could just turn those off manually. I was looking for "chrome" not "chromium" in the repository, which is why I didn't find it the first time. I see it now.

Actually that reasoning is bogus, please show me the "phone home" features in either Chrome or Chromium.
It does not "phone home" more or less than Firefox. And all those features can be turned off.

Please use chromium-browser (the package chromium is a game called Chromium BSU) as you will then also receive updates,
it has no unsatisfied dependencies and the integration with Mageia is better and installation easy

[JoanC]

Thanks for your reply. I now have Chromium installed. As far as I'm concerned, this issue can be closed.