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Dear Mageia buddies,
How do Iinstall the iron-browser on Mageia? The iron-browser It's not in our repositories.
I tried using these codes (dependencies) as follows:


Urpmi libjpeg62

urpmi libbz2.so.1.0

urpmi libvacodec.so.52

Later on I downloaded straight there at
Downloads for RPM [BETA!] (Fedora, RHEL etc.):
http://www.srware.net/downloads/iron.rpm (32-Bit)
http://www.srware.net/downloads/iron64.rpm (64-Bit)

I'm using 64bits.But It failed at all.Someone here has another hints?I appreciate your help installing it.
Cheers.

Why don't you just use chromium?

doktor5000 wrote:Why don't you just use chromium?

Thanks doktor5000! But I have alreay used either the Chrome and the chromium on Mageia 2 already. But I've heard there are some slightly differences.One that is the most fastest browser and the privacy is more respected.Another reason is another option to the Mageia. Thus,I've heard It's on MIB.I will suggest to include it on Mageia at the bugzilla.
Cheers.

You can disable most privacy-related things in chromium, FWIW. And as far as i know, it's not faster than chromium.
Also, as chromium is already a pain to package and to keep it updated, i don't think we will have another package which is just a copy of chromium.

doktor5000 wrote:You can disable most privacy-related things in chromium, FWIW. And as far as i know, it's not faster than chromium.
Also, as chromium is already a pain to package and to keep it updated, i don't think we will have another package which is just a copy of chromium.

Thanks for the prompt reply.The slight differences are there at http://www.srware.net/en/software_srwar ... s_iron.php
I got it. It doensn't really worth to have at Mageia repos.
Cheers.

Except for the first item there, AFAIR all of the other can either be disabled in configuration or are not applicable when Chromium is running, and when used under linux. But feel free to use it, just feeds the paranoia.

doktor5000,

Because the links are fixed it could create a script Get-Iron-32 and Get-Iron-64 by automating the installation, does not burden developers and makes practical install and use for those interested!

http://www.srware.net/downloads/iron.rpm (32-Bit)
http://www.srware.net/downloads/iron64.rpm (64-Bit)

fraterlinux wrote:doktor5000,

Because the links are fixed it could create a script Get-Iron-32 and Get-Iron-64 by automating the installation, does not burden developers and makes practical install and use for those interested!

http://www.srware.net/downloads/iron.rpm (32-Bit)
http://www.srware.net/downloads/iron64.rpm (64-Bit)

Excellent idea fraterlinux.

fraterlinux wrote:Because the links are fixed it could create a script Get-Iron-32 and Get-Iron-64 by automating the installation, does not burden developers and makes practical install and use for those interested!

Well, just do it if you want to have it, but i'd dicuss it before on mageia-dev mailing list.

Tip: to work in Mageia 2

Creating a link to the executable in /usr/bin/

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# ln -s /usr/share/iron/iron /usr/bin/iron

Creating the link to fix the error of library:
./iron: error while loading shared libraries: libbz2.so: cannot open shared 1.0. object file: No such file or directory

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# ln -s /usr/lib64/libbz2.so.1.0.0 /usr/lib64/libbz2.so.1.0

I believe that with i586 is similar, then I'll post the hint, please test and submit errors to adapt the Tip:

Creating a link to the executable in /usr/bin/

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# ln-s /usr/share/iron/iron /usr/bin/iron

Creating the link to fix the error of library:
./iron: error while loading shared libraries: libbz2.so: cannot open shared 1.0. object file: No such file or directory

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# ln -s /usr/lib/libbz2.so.1.0.0 /usr/lib/libbz2.so.1.0

Now simply run the iron as a normal user:

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$ iron

fraterlinux,
Good hint!
Cheers.