Andreas Fritzler

Want to stay up to date with the newest Chromium builds? Unfortunately Chromium does not provide an auto update feature (like Chrome). This problem can be solved by this small shell script:

#!/bin/sh
# Get the latest build for Chromium on Mac.

# setup ------------------------------------------------------------------------
tempDir="/tmp/`whoami`/chrome-nightly/";
baseURL="http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/snapshots/sub-rel-mac/";
baseName="chrome-mac";
baseExt="zip";
appName="Chromium.app";
appDir="/Applications";
version=~/.CURRENT_CHROME;
# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
function checkForErrors {
    if [ "$?" != "0" ]; then
        echo "Unkown error (see above for help)!";
        exit 3;
    fi
}
# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
echo "Setup...";
mkdir -p "$tempDir";
cd "$tempDir";
checkForErrors;
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# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
echo "Checking current version...";
touch $version
currentVersion=`cat $version`;
latestVersion=`curl -s $baseURL/LATEST`;
checkForErrors;
echo " * your/latest build: $currentVersion / $latestVersion";
if [ "$currentVersion" == "$latestVersion" ]; then
    echo " * build $currentVersion is the latest one.";
    exit 1;
fi
# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
echo "Downloading and unpacking...";
chromePID=`ps wwaux|grep -v grep|grep "$appName"|awk '{print $2}'`;
if [ "$chromePID" != "" ];then
    echo " * chromium is running. Please stop it first.";
    exit 2;
fi
curl -o $baseName.$baseExt "$baseURL/$latestVersion/$baseName.$baseExt";
unzip -qo $baseName.$baseExt;
checkForErrors;
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# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
echo "Installing...";
cp -r $baseName/$appName $appDir
checkForErrors;
echo $latestVersion > $version;
# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
echo "Done. You're now running build $latestVersion";
# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Save this script to a file and make it executable with chmod +x and you are ready to stay up to date with Google Chromium.

Tagged as Chrome, Mac, OSX, Scripts, Web + Categorized as News