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[Lars Noodén <lars.nooden@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/29/2012 12:19 AM, Phill Whiteside wrote:
> Hi Lars,
> 
> as per my last reply, Raring updates are blocked. I'm going to do a new
> install for L13.04, which will take about an hour. If you fancy a 'play'
> before I get it done, Alex is still the only one I so far know who is
> keeping a reasonably upto date PPA for chromium[1] and a guy I have chatted
> to about them. In all fairness, the Ubuntu / Canonical guys working on
> Chromium have been concentrating on getting Chromium away from PPA's and
> into a normal update system..
> This has proven to be far more difficult than they thought, even in their
> worst nightmares, to get to work. Whilst I do 'nag' at times, they are 100%
> committed to have Chromium there as a normal update. I'm sure you and the
> other guys appreciate that they *have* to concentrate on issuing things to
> 'stable', us people on testing have to be patient :)
> As I mentioned, he also maintains a -dev link[2] which I use on Quantal.
> 
> Please do note everyone - I have not tried these updates with 13.04, so I
> would advise you copy and paste into a text file the instructions about
> reversing a PPA[3] as if you remove your browser, you will not be able to
> log in and find them!
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Phill
> 1. https://launchpad.net/~a-v-shkop/+archive/chromium
> 1. https://launchpad.net/~a-v-shkop/+archive/chromium-dev
> 3. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/Testing/PPA_Testing

Hi, Phill,

Is there a way to work through this without adding a PPA for chromium?
I'd like to stick to as close to a stock system as possible.  I am
already running 13.04 alpha.

Regards,
/Lars