<html><head></head><body><div dir="auto">Hello David,<br><br>Isn't ungoogled-chromium already available from Trisquel repositories? I installed it from there on Trisquel 12.<br><br>Best regards,<br><br>Xavi</div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="auto">On 30 May 2025 12:28:12 CEST, David Lecompte <trisquel@metani.fr> wrote:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #ad7fa8; padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir="auto">One suggestion could be to use the Guix package manager available at<br>Trisquel.<br></div></blockquote><div dir="auto"><br>I shall look into the capability very closely.<br><br></div></blockquote><div dir="auto"><br>On every non-headless Trisquel machine I install for myself or someone else,<br>I install guix. One reason is to have ungoogled-chromium, as it happens that<br>a few important websites are not functional enough with abrowser.<br><br>I follow exactly the procedure in the Trisquel wiki for this (there is a<br>link to it from the "All manuals" page), on Trisquel with MATE environement.<br>I have used guix once succesfully with KDE on wayland but I recall that some<br>extra things were needed as KDE did not use /etc/profile.d/guix.sh installed<br>by the guix package. I should try this again and add to the wiki the extra<br>configuration needed.<br><br>Two things to note:<br>- there have been slow response from savannah when running "guix pull",<br>often getting a 504 error in response. In this case, retrying until it works<br>can be a solution. However, there is a mirror (which may become or already<br>have become the main repository, but I did not follow the discussions) on<br>codeberg which was much faster recently. To use it, add "--<br>url=https://codeberg.org/guix/guixhttps://codeberg.org/guix/guix" after<br>"guix pull".<br>- when running "guix install package_xxx" or "guix upgrade", if there are no<br>substitutes (pre-built binaries) available for some needed packages, your<br>computer will try building them. If this is ungoogled-chromium, on my<br>machines, it typically takes several days, if it ever succeeds at all. If<br>that happens, I just do Control+C to interrupt it and wait a few days before<br>retrying. It is possible to only upgrade specific packages by running "guix<br>upgrade package-xxx package-yyy".<br><br>Have a good time with Guix on Trisquel !<br><br>However, if you use Parabola, you very quickly have the most up-to-date<br>version of packages. I regularly travel with a computer with Parabola as<br>only distro installed, it is fine as a daily driver.<br><br>In my opinion, the main drawbacks of Parabola are that:<br>- Parabola installation is not automatic, you need to do basic configuration<br>according to the wiki and think of installing all the packages you need<br>(like the right xorg driver, that I tend to forget), it took me a bit of<br>time to get it working for the first time, but then it is fine as a daily<br>driver. You could try it with a virtual maching in Trisquel. To make your<br>life a little easier, use the systemd option, at least until you get<br>familiar enough with Parabola.<br>- It regularly happens that system upgrade (which one should normally do<br>before installing any package) is not possible, often because some package<br>in the "libre" repository (from Parabola) needs to be rebuilt due to some<br>package upgrade in archlinux repositories (used by Parabola). Any failure of<br>system upgrade should be reported so that Parabola developers are aware and<br>fix it. Check the issues marked "sticky" and if any matches with your<br>problem, add a comment to it, otherwise check "recent issues" and if none<br>matches with your problem, create a bug report.<br><br></div></pre></blockquote></div></body></html>