Install Vanadium Browser on Manjaro?

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Has anyone successfully installed the Vanadium Browser from GrapheneOS on Manjaro?

I tried a few times but didn’t succeed.
But according to the website it seems to be possible.

Quick Installation - Vanadium :package:

Edit:
The sh script is probably only for Debian based distributions. It would have to be rewritten somehow, if possible.

You could try the DuckduckGo AI. :smile:

After running the script, these messages appear in the terminal.

~/Downloads$: source vanadium-install.sh                                                                                 
Block 'checkForBash' (1/9 in test) of content/installation/step-by-step.md
Vanadium installation requires Bash.
Block 'define_JIRI_ROOT' (2/9 in test) of content/installation/step-by-step.md
Block 'define_VANADIUM_RELEASE' (3/9 in test) of content/installation/step-by-step.md
Block 'checkForBash' (1/9 in test) of content/installation/step-by-step.md
Block 'define_JIRI_ROOT' (2/9 in test) of content/installation/step-by-step.md
Block 'define_VANADIUM_RELEASE' (3/9 in test) of content/installation/step-by-step.md
Block 'check_JIRI_ROOT' (4/9 in test) of content/installation/step-by-step.md
Block 'runBootstrapScript' (5/9 in test) of content/installation/step-by-step.md
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100  2993  100  2993    0     0  10013      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 10043
Could not find the apt-get package manager.
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in bootstrap.sh
It’s just a check whether apt (for Linux) or brew (for Darwin) is present.
If not, the script tells you that the OS is not supported.

You could modify it to have it continue when all other prerequisites are met.
Or just do step by step by hand what the script would do when the conditions where met.

No, I have not compiled or installed it - I have just looked at that and other scripts to see the checks and sequence of events in order to start the compilation process.

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Since the installer is not designed for Arch-based systems, instead of following the quick installation instructions, you might be better off looking at the Step-by-step Installation - Vanadium instructions.

From what I can ascertain, having jiri installed is preferable due to vanadium’s code being stored across multiple repositories. I just tried building jiri-git on my system, however it aborted with an error. The AUR package hasn’t been updated since 2019, so that may be the reason for the error.

However, jiri can be installed from source using go. Instructions can be found at jiri - Git at Google.

Of course, once jiri is installed, you may still encounter problems installing vanadium using the script due to it being written for Debian-based distros, as you have already mentioned.

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That’s instructions on how to build Vanadium Core, not the browser. The browser is only available for Android. Build instructions are here.

Though I suppose it may be possible to build Chromium with all their patches.

Or you could build Trivalent which is inspired by Vanadium.

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I don’t know how something like that works. I have no experience. How does that work?

I don’t know if secureblue can be trusted?

And you use this browser?

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No. I use Firefox for 99.9% of my browsing (and Falkon for the other 0.1%).