Ubuntu – Apt-build & Chromium PPA

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I'd like to build an (optimized) Version of Chromium for my machine with apt-build on Ubuntu 10.04. I've added a Chromium-PPA to my /etc/sources.list.d/ like this:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/stable/ubuntu lucid main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/stable/ubuntulucid main

But if I run

sudo apt-build install chromium browser

It tells me

chromium-browser will not be built because it doesn't have a source package.
Missing source package name for source_by_source().

On the other hand
sudo apt-get source chromium-browser

seems to work fine, even downloads the 6.x from the PPA

What am I doing wrong? Building ffmpeg and firefox via apt-build worked like a breeze. Except that my preferred chromium is from a PPA I don't see a difference.

Best Answer

Yes, the line with the "ubuntulucid" is a typo, the original has those two seperated.

@sagarchalise: Thats exactly how I installed Chromium and that does work. However, I would like to have it build by apt-build instead of installing the binary version with apt-get. So it doen't work for me. Adding the repository again didn't work for me either.

EDIT

Solved! Seems like apt-build needs all deb-src repositories it should use inside /etc/apt/sources.list . By adding the PPA via apt-add-repository a separate file for each new repository gets created (inside /etc/apt/sources.list.d). So putting the two line directly into /etc/sources.list and running

sudo apt-build update && sudo apt-build --reinstall install chromium-browser

fixed the issue for me. Thanks for your ideas nonetheless!

EDIT²

This bugreport on launchpad seems related.

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