On 2025-10-05, David Bryant <[email protected]> wrote: > On Saturday, October 4, 2025 7:04:05 PM Central Daylight Time Grant Edwards > wrote: >> I'm sure I could figure it out, but I usually just use the ebuilds in >> the Gentoo repo. Are you claiming if I installed it by hand it would >> work better than "emerge google-chrome"? > > Well, the web site > https://mirror.cs.uchicago.edu/google-chrome/pool/main/g/google-chrome-stable/[1] > has versions of google-chrome going back to 12 December 2018 > (71.0.3178-98.1). So if you want an older version of google-chrome > you can probably find it there.
Yep, old binary distributions can also be downloaded from the official site: https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/pool/main/g/... [You just can't get a directory listing.] > I don't have time to do it right now, but you ought to be able to > create an ebuild for say [...] There's no need to. The Gentoo repo hass ebuilds for the official chrome binary distributions. Those ebuilds install the .deb packages. https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/www-client/google-chrome https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/www-client/google-chrome-beta https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/www-client/google-chrome-unstable Old ebuilds can be downloaded from the GitHub mirror of the official Gentoo repo. The last v140 ebuild from the Gentoo repo works fine. -- Grant
