Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

FOR YOUR INFORMATION:- Please note that from the current release - v93.0.4750.0 - the Puppy Iron-portable package now contains a manual updater script. Information pertaining to this, and the reasoning behind its mechanism, can be found here:-

viewtopic.php?p=41887#p41887

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Evening, guys & gals.

This will be the regular thread for my Iron offerings. Not quite as regular as some, 'cos SRWare take their own sweet time over the Linux releases; typically every 3rd or 4th MAJOR release, never mind the plethora of minor ones in between.

The current offering is v108.0.5500.0.

NEW D/L link - now @ MEGA.nz:-

https://mega.nz/folder/rDhWTb6R#tc5D8vzkbF6YsnbPufB3qw

32-bit is still available, but is "pinned" at v88 by the SRWare team as a 'legacy' build. This is the very last 32-bit build they will be producing......though, for some strange reason, the version I'm offering is in fact v89. (No, I can't figure that out, either..! )

New releases will always be found here.

----------------------------------------------------

Same routine as always. Download, unzip, put the portable directory anywhere you like. Click to enter, click "LAUNCH" to fire it up.

Enjoy.

Mike.

darry19662018 wrote: ↑Mon Sep 14, 2020 4:44 am Just started using this new version Mike. Thank you - copied profile from last release and all my bookmarks, extensions worked.

Use Iron regularly as well as your 2.48 Seamonkeys. Video playback working nicely running from my new Upupff+D with 3.18.22 kernel.

Thanks again.

backi wrote: ↑Wed Oct 14, 2020 1:29 pm Whether you like chromium type of browsers or not.........it`s just fast as hell.

• You cannot re-order the bookmarks.

• You cannot sign in to YouTube.

  Code: Select all

  [Couldn't sign you in
  
  This browser or app may not be secure. Learn more
  
  Try using a different browser. If you're already using a
  supported browser, you can refresh your screen and try
  again to sign in.
  

  This means you cannot watch age restricted videos and you cannot like videos.

You CAN re-order bookmarks.....I do this frequently. But you need to go into the Bookmarks Manager to do so; you can't do it directly from the bookmarks bar. You could in older versions of Chromium, but it's one of those features they've deprecated in recent years.

Shift + Ctrl together, then press 'O' (not zero, letter 'o'). That takes you into the Bookmarks Manager, then you just re-order via drag'n'drop (in the sidebar as well as the listings).

I actually tried drag and drop on both the toolbar and in the "Bookmarks Manager" dialog and they both failed. However, after seeing your post I retested again and confirmed the failures (actually this time I tested using 64-bit Iron v.85 on BionicPup64)

mikewalsh wrote: ↑Fri Oct 23, 2020 12:55 am @wiak :-

Will, you might find this page useful for checking video functionality in Iron (indeed, ANY Chromium-based 'clone'):-

https://tekeye.uk/html/html5-video-test-page

mikewalsh wrote: ↑Sat Oct 24, 2020 11:40 am @wiak:-

Morning, Will.

Take a look at the following page:-

https://pallycon.com/multi-drm-demo/


It provides the ability to test DRM support - typically Widevine for browsers, although other variations certainly exist - via multiple widely-available HTML5 players. Quite simply, a browser that supports Widevine will be able to play those streams. A browser that doesn't support DRM will NOT be able to.

Try it for yourself. All Chromium 'clones' (or at least the packages that I provide) will be able to play those test streams.
...

-----------------------------------

EDIT:- If your Arch Chromium is a 'vanilla' build - most usually are - then you won't have Widevine built-in. If you add the Widevine directory into the main Chromium directory, however, you should find that Chromium will pick it up....

See how you get on.

Hi Mike,
I have been thinking about moving to FossaPup64 so I tried Iron64 v85 on it.

/mnt/sdb3/Iron64/Iron-portable/iron64/iron-pup: error while loading shared libraries: libffi.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Iron64 v85 works really well on BionicPup64 so the problem may be specific to FossaPup64. I tried looking into this but I only found something that I don't understand - libffi.so is a dependency for chrome and many lib*.so, but all except libgobject-2.0.so resolve to libffi.so.7. Unable to make further progress as I cannot install objdump.

Hi Mike Walsh,

I don't have m-cuda's problem. Except for the 'no-sandbox' nag, portable-Iron once started runs fine under my fosssapup64. Starting from the terminal is noisy, but that's to be expected. ListDD of the actual "chromium" binary shows no missing dependencies. But then, out of curiosity and because 666philb had made it too easy to install web-browsers via Quickpet, I seem to have used it to install Chromium, opera, and dissenter on my system. The system doesn't have the 64-bit libffi.so.6, but does have libffi.so.7.1.0 with a libffi.so.7 symlink.

@ Mike Walsh and m-cuda: I can upload a package of any actual missing libs if you run a listDD on .../iron64/chromium.

I do have a problem starting Iron-portable under fossapup. But I think it's a fossapup problem. So I've posted about it there. viewtopic.php?p=9384#p9384

Hi Mikes,

Previously, I posted some incorrect ldd output.

Since script iron64/iron-pup sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH before invoking chrome

#!/bin/sh
#
# Wrapper-script to launch Iron browser - Mike Walsh © Feb 2020 (Fred; thanks for odd bits!)
#
HERE="$(dirname "$(readlink -f "$0")")"
#
mkdir "$HERE/PROFILE" 2> /dev/null
#
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HERE/:$HERE/lib${LD_LIBRARY_PATH:+:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH} 
#
echo '$LD_LIBRARY_PATH =' $LD_LIBRARY_PATH
exec -a "$0" "$HERE/chrome" "$@" --user-data-dir=$HERE/PROFILE --ppapi-flash-path=$HERE/PepperFlash/libpepflashplayer.so --disk-cache-size=5000000 --media-cache-size=5000000 --allow-outdated-plugins --disable-infobars "$@"

LD_LIBRARY_PATH must be set before using ldd. Following is the corrected output of ldd.

spot$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/mnt/sdb3/Iron64/Iron-portable/iron64/:/mnt/sdb3/Iron64/Iron-portable/iron64/lib:/lib:/usr/lib:/root/my-applications/lib:/usr/local/lib
spot$ env|egrep LD_LIBRARY_PATH
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/mnt/sdb3/Iron64/Iron-portable/iron64/:/mnt/sdb3/Iron64/Iron-portable/iron64/lib:/lib:/usr/lib:/root/my-applications/lib:/usr/local/lib

spot$ ldd chrome|egrep 'libgobject|not found'
	libgobject-2.0.so.0 => /mnt/sdb3/Iron64/Iron-portable/iron64/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 (0x00007fb909b65000)
	libffi.so.6 => not found
	
spot$ objdump -x lib/libgobject-2.0.so|egrep NEEDED
  NEEDED               libglib-2.0.so.0
  NEEDED               libffi.so.6
  NEEDED               libc.so.6
 
spot$ find / -name 'libffi.so*'
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libffi.so.7
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libffi.so.7.1.0
/initrd/pup_ro2/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libffi.so.7
/initrd/pup_ro2/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libffi.so.7.1.0
/initrd/pup_a/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libffi.so.7

m-cuda wrote: ↑Sat Nov 07, 2020 10:57 am

Hi Mike,
I have been thinking about moving to FossaPup64 so I tried Iron64 v85 on it.

Code: Select all

/mnt/sdb3/Iron64/Iron-portable/iron64/iron-pup: error while loading shared libraries: libffi.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Iron64 v85 works really well on BionicPup64 so the problem may be specific to FossaPup64. I tried looking into this but I only found something that I don't understand - libffi.so is a dependency for chrome and many lib*.so, but all except libgobject-2.0.so resolve to libffi.so.7. Unable to make further progress as I cannot install objdump.

@m-cuda :-

Current solution here:- viewtopic.php?p=9415#p9415

Should help. DO read the post right through, 'cos it may not seem to make sense otherwise.....

Mike.