Chromium easy update

28Sep/100

Update: The URL's no longer work, so this is busted. I've gone back to Firefox since 4.0 came out. It is heavier than Chrom(e|ium), but I was finding that there were some features I was really missing. As such, this still can serve as the basis for an update if given the correct URL's.

I'm a bleeding edge kind of guy. No, I'm not. When it comes to software, I'm generally a bleeding edge kind of guy. I really like Chromium. I hate going to the Chromium build site, downloading it, closing my browser, then moving it in place. I'm a lazy admin.

Here's a couple quick-n-dirty bash script that retrieves the latest Chromium build.

Mac Version

Special Notes:

Ensure Chromium is not running when you run this or it will not work out as planned (open files)

Assumes that Chromium is installed in /Applications, not /Users/user/Applications

#!/bin/bash
echo -n "Retrieving latest build: "
VER=$( curl -s http://build.chromium.org/f/chromium/snapshots/chromium-rel-mac/LATEST )
echo "$VER"  
 
TMPDIR=$( mktemp -d /tmp/chromium.XXXXX )  
 
echo "Downloading Chromium: "
curl -o ${TMPDIR}/chromium.zip http://build.chromium.org/f/chromium/snapshots/chromium-rel-mac/${VER}/chrome-mac.zip  
 
echo -n "Decompressing archive: "  
unzip -qqx ${TMPDIR}/chromium -d ${TMPDIR}  
echo "done"  
 
rm -rf /Applications/Chromium.app  
mv ${TMPDIR}/chrome-mac/Chromium.app /Applications/  
 
rm -rf ${TMPDIR}  
echo "New Chromium installed!"

Linux Version

Special Notes:

Requires 7zip to be installed

Assumes that Chromium is installed in /opt

I have a group named "opt", to which my user belongs, that has write access to /opt

I have /opt/bin, which is in my $PATH, that has a symlink for "chrome" pointed to /opt/chrome-linux/chrome

#!/bin/bash
echo -n "Retrieving latest build: "
VER=$( curl -s http://build.chromium.org/f/chromium/snapshots/chromium-rel-linux-64/LATEST )
echo "$VER"  
 
TMPDIR=$( mktemp -d /tmp/chromium.XXXXX )  
 
echo "Downloading Chromium: "
curl -o ${TMPDIR}/chrome-linux.zip http://build.chromium.org/f/chromium/snapshots/chromium-rel-linux-64/${VER}/chrome-linux.zip  
 
echo -n "Decompressing archive: "  
7z x -tzip -o${TMPDIR} ${TMPDIR}/chrome-linux.zip > /dev/null
echo "done"  
 
if [ -d /opt/chrome-linux.1 ]
then
        rm -rf /opt/chrome-linux.1
fi
 
if [ -d /opt/chrome-linux ]
then
        mv /opt/chrome-linux /opt/chrome-linux.1 
fi
 
mv ${TMPDIR}/chrome-linux /opt/ 
find /opt/chrome-linux -type d -exec chmod 2775 {} \;
find /opt/chrome-linux -type f -perm /100 -exec chmod 775 {} \;
find /opt/chrome-linux -type f ! -perm /100 -exec chmod 664 {} \;
chgrp -R opt /opt/chrome-linux
 
rm -rf ${TMPDIR}  
echo "New Chromium installed!"

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