04-21-2022, 08:54 AM
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(03-20-2022, 08:13 AM)wibble Wrote: I would aim to build a debian package, so you would copy over the .deb for icecat and install it, or even host your own package repository. Mobian has some hints on the package build and crosscompile process as apparently some options are buggy:
https://gitlab.com/mobian1/wiki/-/wikis/...e-packages
I assume you'd be starting with an existing project for packaging icecat for debian, like https://github.com/losuler/icecat - I suppose you could ask them to add an aarch64 target to their OBS build system. Whether it builds cleanly for aarch64 is another matter...
I’d be tempted to go with your latter suggestion as I don’t think I’m near the point of hosting my own package repository yet so I will contact them but I can’t help feeling there must be a simpler, yet equally “correct” approach.
I say that not just because I’m hoping for something quicker which anyone else could easily replicate if they wished, but because I have just tried my previous Alien approach again on a fresh Mobian install (latest release) with a slightly different result:
If I simply run “icecat” from the /home/mobian directory, the only library error I get now is the one about
/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version ‘GLIBC_2.34’ not found (required by /usr/lib64/icecat/icecat)*
*this changes to “(required by ./icecat) if I try running “./icecat”, or to “(required by ./icecat-bin)” if I try running “./run-icecat.sh”, from within the /usr/lib64/icecat directory.
I successfully installed and ran Icecat on Fedora from Megi’s multiboot installed on my eMMC before I ever tried Tow-Boot. So as a NOOB it feels like I should be somehow able to add whatever “it” is that Fedora has to my Mobian install to enable Icecat to run correctly on Mobian. I presume that “it” is this GLIBC_2.34 that my Mobian install complains about not being found...
Interestingly, in my Mobian install, GNOME Software recognises that I have manually added GNU IceCat “manual:local (deb)” along with a bunch of information such as that the package has a ~3.6 star rating from 43 reviews, a couple of screenshots and detailed description - but then declares it to be “Potentially Unsafe” because it’s “Provided by a third party” with “Proprietary code” and that “The source code is not public, so it cannot be independently audited and might be unsafe” !!!
I thought the point of GNU IceCat was that it was a rebranded version of Firefox where the GNU Project has stripped away any/all trackers and proprietary code that Mozilla has introduced?!