Building Chromium on Arch Linux

Generally speaking, follow the Linux Build Instructions. However, do the following instead to install the build dependencies:

Install the build dependencies

Most of these packages are probably already installed since they're often used, and the --needed parameter ensures that up-to-date packages are not reinstalled.

$ sudo pacman -S --needed python perl gcc gcc-libs bison flex gperf pkgconfig \
nss alsa-lib gconf glib2 gtk2 nspr ttf-ms-fonts freetype2 cairo dbus \
libgnome-keyring

For the optional packages on Arch Linux:

• php-cgi is provided with pacman
• wdiff is not in the main repository but dwdiff is. You can get wdiff in AUR/yaourt
• sun-java6-fonts do not seem to be in main repository or AUR.