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Google Chromium (the open source chrome browser) on Gentoo!

Chromium is not yet complete no matter what I say here. Please do not post bugs or assume this is the final version of chromium. It still lacks a lot of features. My intension here is to only show you how you can get started on building chrome in Gentoo. Google chromium project has come a long way. I have been building chromium once in a while but it was not stable and was slow until recently. But now I am using it as my primary browser (well there are some exceptions as I will explain later)! It is better than my firefox experience (at least in linux). To get started head over to this link . First you will need to have all the prerequisites . In ubuntu it is pretty easy. On gentoo we need the gentoo package equivalents of all the prerequisites. Here is the list of things I mapped from ubuntu packages to Gentoo. * Python >= 2.4 ---> python * Perl >= 5.x --> perl * gcc/g++ >= 4.2 --> gcc * g++-multilib >=4.2 --> ? * bison >= 2.3 --