I need help to finish installing the latest version of Chromium

Question

I am trying to install Chromium 48 on my Raspberry Pi 2 Model B. I have already gotten all of the necessary files downloaded and expanded using these commands:

mkdir Chromium
cd Chromium/
wget https://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/chromium-browser-snapshots/Arm/103408/chrome-linux.zip
unzip chrome-linux.zip

After that finished running I used this command:

./chrome-linux/chrome

But I got this error:

./chrome-linux/chrome: symbol lookup error: /opt/vc/lib/libEGL.so: undefined symbol: glPointSizePointerOES

I have been trying to resolve the issue myself but I am new to Raspberry Pi so any help would be greatly appreciated.

I should also mention I already had a version of Chromium installed so I had all the other packages and libraries.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Seems to me like you are using outdated instructions. Chromium is now in the apt-get repositories. All you need to do is this:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install chromium-browser

If you're asked "Do you want to continue?" or something like that, hit "y" then Enter and your Pi will download and install Chromium and its requirements.

Answer 2

It might be that you're using an unsupported version of that library.

Here are some points:

• You may have to recompile.
  • Chromium requires at least version 2.15 of the libc6 library. This can be found on Raspbian Jessie. Compiling on Wheezy would be problematic.
  • I think you also have to link libGLESv2.so and maybe libOpenVG.so. Mess around with the Makefile if you're recompiling.
• Do not use any mesa-based graphics library!
• Maybe consider Iceweasel?

Answer 3

Running the following commands should work if you are on the newest version of Raspbian, which is Raspbian Jessie.

wget https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/87113035/chromium-browser-l10n_48.0.2564.82-0ubuntu0.15.04.1.1193_all.deb
wget https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/87113035/chromium-browser_48.0.2564.82-0ubuntu0.15.04.1.1193_armhf.deb
wget https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/87113035/chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra_48.0.2564.82-0ubuntu0.15.04.1.1193_armhf.deb
sudo dpkg -i chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra_48.0.2564.82-0ubuntu0.15.04.1.1193_armhf.deb
sudo dpkg -i chromium-browser-l10n_48.0.2564.82-0ubuntu0.15.04.1.1193_all.deb chromium-browser_48.0.2564.82-0ubuntu0.15.04.1.1193_armhf.deb

This worked for me with no problems.