Package Details: ungoogled-chromium-bin 137.0.7151.119-1

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/ungoogled-chromium-bin.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: ungoogled-chromium-bin
Description: A lightweight approach to removing Google web service dependency
Upstream URL: https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium
Keywords: blink browser privacy web
Licenses: BSD
Conflicts: chromedriver, chromium
Provides: chromedriver, chromium
Submitter: networkException
Maintainer: networkException
Last Packager: networkException
Votes: 123
Popularity: 9.83
First Submitted: 2022-08-27 13:16 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2025-06-22 01:28 (UTC)

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networkException commented on 2025-05-02 13:41 (UTC)

Hello everyone, there's always a lot of confusion when ungoogled-chromium doesn't start because of a system dependency it can't find.

This issue is inherent to Arch Linux package management, there's no mechanism that tracks required rebuilds. Maintainers are expected to push manual pkgrel bumps once a rebuild is required. The chromium package can somewhat easily handle this, they can also update the package in testing first.

People's comments here or on GitHub are how I notice that a rebuild is required, I try to push an update quickly then. Sadly a full rebuild currently takes over 24 hours on GitHub Actions and I'm not exactly maintaining open source software as my dayjob either, so this can take a while.

There's no solution for this really, other than adopting the package into the official repository maybe (I cannot do that). Note that for Manjaro users even a rebuild might not be enough as there can always be mismatches in what system library versions are available.

networkException commented on 2022-09-20 17:36 (UTC)

Please note that normally it's not required to flag this package as out of date. I usually tag releases in the main ungoogled-chromium repository and update the arch packaging right afterwards.

If the package hasn't updated after an ungoogled-chromium release GitHub Actions might still be building or the ungoogled-chromium patchset got updated for non Linux platforms only to match their upstream release cycle

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gatonero commented on 2025-06-03 08:39 (UTC)

It's from the extra repository, so I believe it will not harm your system. Whether it's a "permanent" solution, I am not sure.

gothmog123 commented on 2025-06-03 07:53 (UTC)

sorry i mean on the long term. to avoid problems in the future and not have to deal with them. is it a good idea to just have the legacy installed forever?

gatonero commented on 2025-06-03 07:36 (UTC)

@gothmog123 I have already done one or two updates, and it works.

gothmog123 commented on 2025-06-03 05:47 (UTC)

Is it safe to use libxml2-legacy forever? Is it always libxml2 thats the problem?

gatonero commented on 2025-05-15 06:52 (UTC)

Since my last suggestion no longer works today, I looked for another solution and found one in this thread: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=305296

I installed libxml2-legacy, and now it also works with the latest version of ubgoogled-chromium. :-)

gatonero commented on 2025-05-13 07:53 (UTC) (edited on 2025-05-13 09:43 (UTC) by gatonero)

Performing a downgrade to an older version makes it run again.

Steps to be done:

1) In the top right under Package Actions, select 'view changes'

2) Choose 'Upgrade to 135.0.7049.114-1' or any other working version.

3) Download that version direct link:(https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/snapshot/aur-c393f33c09208c3996397b58e0f226cb9bda87c7.tar.gz)

4) cd to the directory where you downloaded the file

5) Unpack that file

6) In terminal cd to the unpacked directory

7) Type 'makepkg -si'

8) In /etc/pacman.conf insert 'IgnorePkg = ungoogled-chromium-bin'

9) Have fun with that older version of ungoogled-chromium-bin

tomacrisan commented on 2025-05-04 17:06 (UTC)

@networkException I appreciate your work; building ungoogle-chromium takes my laptop over 24 hours with all four core running at 90%-100% so I very much appreciate having a -bin version available.

pross commented on 2025-05-02 14:25 (UTC)

@networkException we appreciate your dedication to this package!

For me the -2 version released yesterday fixed the libxml2 issue, I installed compat package mentioned below anyway just in case anything else breaks that needs it.

Thanks again!

Switch123456789 commented on 2025-05-02 14:21 (UTC)

I got it working again by installing: https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/libxml2-legacy/

networkException commented on 2025-05-02 13:41 (UTC)

Hello everyone, there's always a lot of confusion when ungoogled-chromium doesn't start because of a system dependency it can't find.

This issue is inherent to Arch Linux package management, there's no mechanism that tracks required rebuilds. Maintainers are expected to push manual pkgrel bumps once a rebuild is required. The chromium package can somewhat easily handle this, they can also update the package in testing first.

People's comments here or on GitHub are how I notice that a rebuild is required, I try to push an update quickly then. Sadly a full rebuild currently takes over 24 hours on GitHub Actions and I'm not exactly maintaining open source software as my dayjob either, so this can take a while.

There's no solution for this really, other than adopting the package into the official repository maybe (I cannot do that). Note that for Manjaro users even a rebuild might not be enough as there can always be mismatches in what system library versions are available.

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