Re: Making a shared library executable outside the shell

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On Thu, 2012-02-23 at 10:05 +0100, Christopher Svanefalk wrote:
> I have built Chromium from source, and currently the only way to start
> the browser is to execute the shared library file 'chrome' from shell.
> 
> 
> I would like to be able to launch it from the normal menu like my
> other applications, but I do not really know how to do this. Simply
> creating a symlink in bin breaks dependencies (browser crashes due to
> inability to load related libraries), and I am not really good enough
> at shell-work to figure out what else could be done. It is further not
> possible to launch the file from a normal file browser (system reports
> that it has no application for handling shared libraries).
> 
> 
> Any solution to this?
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> 
> Best,
> 
> 
> Christopher

I am not sure what "the only way to start the browser is to execute the
shared library file 'chrome' from shell." means exactly but it seems to
me that you could add an application to your upper panel (using ALT key)
that would execute 'chrome' from wherever it is.
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