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I have a Raspberry Pi running: Linux 3.10.35-1-ARCH

How do I install the chromium web browser? I have tried the following:

pacman -Syyu

Followed by

pacman -S chromium

error: target not found: chromium

When I've downloaded the 'google-chrome-dev' from AUR it says:

==> ERROR: google-chrome-dev is not available for the 'armv6h' architecture. Note that many packages may need a line added to their PKGBUILD such as arch=('armv6h').

I'm beginning to think that chromium doesn't exist on Arch linux. Any thought on how to install it?

Vadim Kotov
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John
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    This is not a software development question, it would be a better fit on raspberrypi.stackexchange.com – Chris Stratton Aug 05 '14 at 19:49
  • sorry, it's my first time posting. I'll try and post it on raspberry.stackexchange.com... How would I do this? – John Aug 05 '14 at 19:51
  • Moonman seems to have got it to work and [has done a great job sharing his process](http://archlinuxarm.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=5645). Also, the [PKGBUILDs repo](https://github.com/archlinuxarm/PKGBUILDs/) also has a customized build file in the extra/chromium directory which is supposed to work for arm6. Also, see [the related question raspberry pi stack exchange](http://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/15882/unable-to-compile-chromium) – cwd Dec 20 '14 at 12:57

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try sudo pacman -S chromium-browser or sudo pacman -S extra/chromium

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You are right. The ARM version of ArchLinux only has packages to armv7.

You can try to compile it using makepkg or packer, but I wouldn't be surprised if this would take hours/days...

If you want to try, download this file to some directory and run in the same path

$ makepkg
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