Package request: SRWare Iron

[MechDR]

Package name

iron

Package homepage

https://www.srware.net/

Description

An open source Chrome build with telemetries removed. Mainly, it's one of the few Chromium based browsers that's not Chrome and offers 32-bit builds of the browser. There's only Ubuntu packages available. I tried ldd on the binary, didn't report any missing binaries, it ran just fine extracted from the Debian package.

That being said, the browser did ran, but can't load a single page, it just reports that it "can't open this page" (Error 256)... don't know what the problem might be...

Download links:

https://www.srware.net/downloads/iron.deb
https://www.srware.net/downloads/iron64.deb

Does the requested package meet the package requirements?

System, Required

Is the requested package released?

Yes

[paper42]

We do not package any chromium or firefox forks, see the tens of package requests for ungoogled chromium, iridium browser, brave, waterfox, librewolf, etc.

[MechDR]

OK, no prob, cool, but why is that? Some legal stuff?

[paper42]

You could try reading #515, #2735, #11549,#23628, #23310, #4130, #24393, #32914, #5444, #33068, #21354 and probably a lot more issues, there is no point in repeating it here.

[classabbyamp]

additionally, iirc void's chromium package has telemetry removed and supports i686

[MechDR]

@classabbyamp Hm, that's good to know, so it's basically Chrome minus telemetries, like Iron, correct?

[MechDR]

@classabbyamp Well, I tried it, it does install, but doesn't run...

[1013/175205.778539:ERROR:file_io_posix.cc(144)] open /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_cur_freq: No such file or directory (2)
[1013/175205.779052:ERROR:file_io_posix.cc(144)] open /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq: No such file or directory (2)
fish: Job 1, 'chromium' terminated by signal SIGILL (Illegal instruction)

It's an old HP Workstation xw8000 with dual Xeons, P4 days.

EDIT: Got the same error on an old Compaq EVO D510 P4 rig as well.

[1013/180208.871609:ERROR:file_io_posix.cc(144)] open /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_cur_freq: No such file or directory (2)
[1013/180208.872410:ERROR:file_io_posix.cc(144)] open /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq: No such file or directory (2)
fish: Job 1, 'chromium' terminated by signal SIGILL (Illegal instruction)