Posts by Grasshopper

Grasshopper · Chrome build addon Grasshopper December 26, 2021 at 9:07 PM

Happy Holidays Everyone!

As a learning lesson ( I know chrome is a tough build, interested to see what errors it will show)

Going to attempt a chrome build (Total Noob) with the following: Azure VM with 4cpus, 32g memory ,1T SSD running ubuntu server 21.04 gen 2.

Here is the steps I'm going to use if I'm reading build instructions correctly.

Update and upgrade ubuntu

Install dependencies

Clone Source

Git Checkout 6d206bf1d518504e5728fe0abafdca75cb60c6d7

Then PROJECT=Generic ARCH=x86_64 scripts/create_addon chrome to start building??

Am I missing anything?

Grasshopper · Chrome Update Question Grasshopper December 21, 2021 at 1:52 AM

LM, The chrome addon is under programs in the LE repo. Click on it and it will install the latest version of chrome for you.

Grasshopper · Chrome Update Question Grasshopper December 14, 2021 at 3:56 PM

Thanks CvH, I did consider that before I tried my experiment. I figured if it did break something I would just uninstall and reinstall.

Have used this way a couple of times to update and have not had any problems. (Lucky?) It's a shame you have to do extra work, it's much appreciated. Any idea why buildserver won't work with addon?

Grasshopper · Chrome Update Question Grasshopper December 6, 2021 at 11:28 PM

Hello everyone. Here is a way that works for me to manually update chrome while waiting for the official update.

1) Uninstall chrome addon, save data if you wish.

2) Download from repo again but before running the addon.

3) SSH into the following file, I use WinSCP. /storage/.kodi/addons/browser.chrome/bin/chrome-downloader and edit line 12 CHROME_FILE="google-chrome-stable_96.0.4664.45-1_amd64.deb" by changing 96.0.4664.45 to what ever the current stable chrome release is after a google search for it. Ex: 97.0.4692.20

4) Save file, exit SSH.

5) Run chrome addon now and it will download, extract, and install the latest stable release.

6) Next chrome update popup, repeat process.

Hopefully this works for you.

Grasshopper · Chrome Update Question Grasshopper November 28, 2021 at 2:00 AM

Hello heitbaum, Thank you for the info. I'll wait for the next update.

Grasshopper · Chrome Update Question Grasshopper November 27, 2021 at 5:25 PM

Hello, First of all thanks for this amazing creation!!

Running latest generic build with LE at 10.0.1, Kodi at 19.3, LE addon repo at 10.0.0 and Chrome addon at 10.0.0.107 which gives me google chrome version 92.0.4515.107. Chrome gives popup saying a update is available. I see in chrome addon setting that there is an auto-update switch which is set to on. Does this mean chrome should auto update itself when google updates or does it mean that chrome will update when chrome addon is updated by LE team or only when the whole of LE itself is updated? I see by LE GitHub that chrome addon is at version 111 which would be google version 96.0.4664.45.

Thanks in advance