Google Chromium on Gentoo

I installed Google Chrome on my 64 bit Ubuntu laptop last night and loved it. I just grabbed the zip file from chromium.org and really just unzipped it and ran it. What I didn't know is that the linux package is built for an Ubuntu system. So when I got to work to run chrome on my Gentoo workstation, I ran into an error:

./chrome: error while loading shared libraries: libnss3.so.1d: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Gentoo has the libraries but they are named differently then Ubuntu. If you search this error, you can find that some people and figured out a work around by symlinking the libraries, but that was only necessary before the ebuild was built. Now Chromium is found in portage under www-client/chromium. There are two testing build and a masked build (http://packages.gentoo.org/package/www-client/chromium). I just have to have the most recent version as I'm a sucker for punishment, so I unmasked it with:

echo www-client/chromium >> /etc/portage/package.unmask

Then i'm off and running with

emerge www-client/chromium

It looks like it pulls ALL the source though, so even though you are compiling for 64 bit linux, you are getting source for XP and Mac OS. A du -sh shows 3.9 gig of disk use. So make sure you got the room. I'm using LXDE and it created my chromium application icon for me.

VMware View Open Client on 64 bit Ubuntu (VDI)

Here is the quick and simple set of commands of what I did to get this running:

sudo apt-get install libgtkextra-x11-2.0-dev libxml++2.6-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev intltool libboost1.38-dev

wget http://vmware-view-open-client.googlecode.com/files/VMware-view-open-client-source-4.0.0-201987.tar.gz

tar zxvf ./VMware-view-open-client-source-4.0.0-201987.tar.gz

cd VMware-view-open-client-source-4.0.0-201987

./configure

make

sudo make install

Now you should have "VMware View Open Client" under Applications -> Internet