Could not install Chromium from dietpi-software

[kmplngj]

Creating a bug report/issue

Required Information

• DietPi version | cat /DietPi/dietpi/.version

G_DIETPI_VERSION_CORE=6
G_DIETPI_VERSION_SUB=28
G_DIETPI_VERSION_RC=0
G_GITBRANCH='master'
G_GITOWNER='MichaIng'

• Distro version | echo $G_DISTRO_NAME or cat /etc/debian_version

buster

• Kernel version | uname -a

Linux DietPi 4.19.93+ #1290 Fri Jan 10 16:34:37 GMT 2020 armv6l GNU/Linux

• SBC device | echo $G_HW_MODEL_DESCRIPTION or (EG: RPi3)

RPi Zero W (armv6l)

• Power supply used | (EG: 5V 1A RAVpower)

2.1A

• SDcard used | (EG: SanDisk ultra)

SanDisk 32GB Ultra

Additional Information (if applicable)

• Software title

Chromium

• Can this issue be replicated on a fresh installation of DietPi?

Is fresh installed

• Bug report ID | sed -n 5p /DietPi/dietpi/.hw_model

1c7a9f07-5ae2-4a7e-97b9-f1bbdea6ef07

Steps to reproduce

Installed DietPi, Setup Wifi in dietpi-wifi.txt, Set Autostart to Chromium

Could not install Chromium in dietpi-software

Expected behaviour

Chromium should be installable-

Actual behaviour

No, Chromium to install.

THANKS!

[MichaIng]

@kmplngj
Many thanks for your report.

This is intended, Chromium is currently not supported on ARMv6 RPi models (RPi1/Zero/Zero W) by us. But I am not sure about the reason and if there are still related problems currently. You can manually test it, if it works fine, we can enable it for next release officially:

• Edit /DietPi/dietpi/dietpi-software
• Search for aSOFTWARE_NAME[$software_id]='Chromium'
• Remove the line aSOFTWARE_AVAIL_G_HW_ARCH[$software_id,1]=0 in this box, save and use dietpi-software to install Chromium, which is now available.
  Here the code block, with the last line to be removed: https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi/blob/master/dietpi/dietpi-software#L379-L389

[kmplngj]

Works for me and my Smart Mirror.

Thanks

[MichaIng]

@kmplngj
Great. How is the performance on RPi Zero?

[kmplngj]

@MichaIng Works for me. But I only use it in Kiosk Mode with my Smart Mirror.

[MichaIng]

@kmplngj
Okay navigation performance does not play a role then. This use case should be enough to enable Chromium for ARMv6 as well. I found other GPU/graphical software titles as well disabled for ARMv6. Not sure if there were issues with the GPU (or i.e. OpenGL) drivers on those models in the past, but generally they work now.

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