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Author:  skipper823 [ 16 Jan 2017, 14:32 ]
Post subject:  alternative browser

I want to run Active Captain live charts. It won't run on Firefox because Adobe Flash is no longer supported. Chrome no longer supports a 32 bit version. Will it work with Opera? How do I load Opera into Navigatrix.

Court Crosby

Author:  jak3b [ 17 Jan 2017, 01:09 ]
Post subject:  Re: alternative browser

Use Chromium, Its what Chrome is built on. There is a 32 bit version.Its in the repos.

Author:  skipper823 [ 17 Jan 2017, 08:47 ]
Post subject:  Re: alternative browser

What/where is the "repos," once I find Chromium, how do I install it?

Author:  Moe [ 18 Jan 2017, 23:11 ]
Post subject:  Re: alternative browser

Open a terminal. Update your repository list
Code:
sudo apt-get update
When it's done, install the chromium browser
Code:
sudo apt install chromium-browser
It will kick back something like the
Quote:
moe@nx:~$ sudo apt install chromium-browser
[sudo] password for moe:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
chromium-browser-l10n chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra libspeechd2
Suggested packages:
webaccounts-chromium-extension unity-chromium-extension adobe-flashplugin
The following NEW packages will be installed:
chromium-browser chromium-browser-l10n chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra
libspeechd2
0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 569 not upgraded.
Need to get 60.8 MB of archives.
After this operation, 238 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]

Author:  skipper823 [ 19 Jan 2017, 08:33 ]
Post subject:  Re: alternative browser

Thank you for the detailed instructions. I did that and got the following result.

....
Ign http://www.hu.freepascal.org lazarus-stable/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://www.hu.freepascal.org lazarus-stable/universe Translation-en
Ign http://www.openprinting.org lsb3.2/contrib Translation-en_US
Get:141 http://www.openprinting.org lsb3.2/contrib Translation-en
Ign http://archive.getdeb.net trusty-getdeb/games Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.getdeb.net trusty-getdeb/games Translation-en
Fetched 16.7 MB in 22s (730 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
court@Samsung305E:~$ sudo apt install chromium browser
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package chromium is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
However the following packages replace it:
chromium-bsu

E: Package 'chromium' has no installation candidate
E: Unable to locate package browser
court@Samsung305E:~$

Author:  Moe [ 19 Jan 2017, 16:30 ]
Post subject:  Re: alternative browser

skipper823 wrote:
court@Samsung305E:~$ sudo apt install chromium browser
Typo, you need the dash.

sudo apt install chromium-browser

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