Install this package:
emerge -a dev-util/electronIf the package is masked, you can unmask it using the autounmask tool or standard emerge options:
autounmask dev-util/electronOr alternatively:
emerge --autounmask-write -a dev-util/electron| Version | EAPI | Keywords | Slot |
|---|---|---|---|
| 42.0.1 | 8 | amd64 ~arm64 ~ppc64 ~x86 | $(ver_cut 1)/$(ver_cut 2-) |
| 42.0.0 | 8 | amd64 ~arm64 ~ppc64 ~x86 | $(ver_cut 1)/$(ver_cut 2-) |
| 41.5.1 | 8 | amd64 ~arm64 ~ppc64 ~x86 | $(ver_cut 1)/$(ver_cut 2-) |
| 41.5.0 | 8 | amd64 ~arm64 ~ppc64 ~x86 | $(ver_cut 1)/$(ver_cut 2-) |
| 40.9.3 | 8 | amd64 ~arm64 ~ppc64 ~x86 | $(ver_cut 1)/$(ver_cut 2-) |
| 40.10.0 | 8 | amd64 ~arm64 ~ppc64 ~x86 | $(ver_cut 1)/$(ver_cut 2-) |
| 39.8.9 | 8 | amd64 ~arm64 ~ppc64 ~x86 | $(ver_cut 1)/$(ver_cut 2-) |
| 39.8.10 | 8 | amd64 ~arm64 ~ppc64 ~x86 | $(ver_cut 1)/$(ver_cut 2-) |
<pkgmetadata> <maintainer type="person"> <email>PF4Public@users.noreply.github.com</email> </maintainer> <longdescription> Electron is a cross platform application development framework based on web technologies based on Chromium </longdescription> <use> <flag name="bluetooth">Enable Bluetooth. Disabling bluetooth does break WebAuthn. Could also break something else. Improved patch is welcome.</flag> <flag name="bundled-toolchain">Download and use the upstream binary toolchain(s) to build Chromium</flag> <flag name="clang">Use Clang compiler instead of GCC</flag> <flag name="debug">Enable DCHECK feature with severity configurable at runtime. Mostly intended for debugging and development, NOT RECOMMENDED for general use.</flag> <flag name="dev-dependencies">Keep Electron's devDependencies. This makes them available in node_modules. For example "asar" utility is one of them.</flag> <flag name="ffmpeg-chromium">(binpkg only) Use Chromium FFmpeg fork (<pkg>media-video/ffmpeg-chromium</pkg>) rather than mainline FFmpeg (<pkg>media-video/ffmpeg</pkg>)</flag> <flag name="gtk4">Build with GTK4 headers</flag> <flag name="hangouts">Enable support for Google Hangouts features such as screen sharing</flag> <flag name="hevc">Enable HEVC decoding support. Should work with system-ffmpeg, but might require additional patching for the built-in one.</flag> <flag name="js-type-check">Enable JavaScript type-checking for Chrome's web technology-based UI. Requires Java.</flag> <flag name="libcxx">Use bundled C++ Standard Library (libc++)</flag> <flag name="nvidia">Use libXNVCtrl library from <pkg>x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers</pkg> instead of the bundled one</flag> <flag name="optimize-thinlto">Whether to enable ThinLTO optimizations. Turning ThinLTO optimizations on can substantially increase link time and binary size, but they generally also make binaries a fair bit faster.</flag> <flag name="optimize-webui">Optimize parts of Chromium's UI written with web technologies (HTML/CSS/JS) for runtime performance purposes. This does more work at compile time for speed benefits at runtime.</flag> <flag name="pax-kernel">Allow building on a PaX-enabled kernel</flag> <flag name="pgo">Enable PGO. Requires bundled binary profile data in sources tree. Often requires masked/testing llvm.</flag> <flag name="pic">Disable optimized assembly code that is not PIC friendly</flag> <flag name="proprietary-codecs">Enable codecs for patent-encumbered audio and video formats</flag> <flag name="screencast">Enable support for remote desktop and screen cast using <pkg>media-video/pipewire</pkg></flag> <flag name="suid">Build the SUID sandbox, which is only needed on CONFIG_USER_NS=n kernels</flag> <flag name="system-abseil-cpp">Use the system <pkg>dev-cpp/abseil-cpp</pkg> instead of the bundled one</flag> <flag name="system-av1">Use the system <pkg>media-libs/libaom</pkg> and <pkg>media-libs/dav1d</pkg> instead of the bundled ones</flag> <flag name="system-brotli">Use the system <pkg>app-arch/brotli</pkg> instead of the bundled one</flag> <flag name="system-crc32c">Use the system <pkg>dev-libs/crc32c</pkg> instead of the bundled one</flag> <flag name="system-double-conversion">Use the system <pkg>dev-libs/double-conversion</pkg> instead of the bundled one</flag> <flag name="system-ffmpeg">Use the system <pkg>media-video/ffmpeg</pkg> instead of the bundled one</flag> <flag name="system-harfbuzz">Use the system <pkg>media-libs/harfbuzz</pkg> instead of the bundled one</flag> <flag name="system-icu">Use the system <pkg>dev-libs/icu</pkg> instead of the bundled one</flag> <flag name="system-jsoncpp">Use the system <pkg>dev-libs/jsoncpp</pkg> instead of the bundled one</flag> <flag name="system-libevent">Use the system <pkg>dev-libs/libevent</pkg> instead of the bundled one</flag> <flag name="system-libusb">Use the system <pkg>dev-libs/libusb</pkg> instead of the bundled one</flag> <flag name="system-libvpx">Use the system <pkg>media-libs/libvpx</pkg> instead of the bundled one</flag> <flag name="system-openh264">Use the system <pkg>media-libs/openh264</pkg> instead of the bundled one. If disabled, it will restrict USE=bindist.</flag> <flag name="system-openjpeg">Use the system-wide <pkg>media-libs/openjpeg</pkg> instead of the bundled one. OpenJPEG use are exclusively for Chromium's PDF viewer.</flag> <flag name="system-png">Use system libpng instead of the bundled one</flag> <flag name="system-re2">Use the system-wide <pkg>dev-libs/re2</pkg> instead of the bundled one</flag> <flag name="system-snappy">Use the system-wide <pkg>app-arch/snappy</pkg> instead of the bundled one</flag> <flag name="system-woff2">Use the system <pkg>media-libs/woff2</pkg> instead of the bundled one</flag> <flag name="system-zstd">Use the system <pkg>app-arch/zstd</pkg> instead of the bundled one</flag> <flag name="thinlto">Build with ThinLTO support. LTO (Link Time Optimization) achieves better runtime performance through whole-program analysis and cross-module optimization (highly recommended).</flag> <flag name="ungoogled">Apply ungoogled-chromium modifications to chromium sources (electron sources are not modified be it better or worse). Might break electron apps or electron itself!</flag> </use> <upstream> <doc>https://www.electronjs.org/docs</doc> <bugs-to>https://github.com/electron/electron/issues</bugs-to> <remote-id type="github">electron/electron</remote-id> </upstream> </pkgmetadata>
Manage flags for this package:
euse -i <flag> -p dev-util/electron |
euse -E <flag> -p dev-util/electron |
euse -D <flag> -p dev-util/electron
| Flag | Description | 42.0.1 | 42.0.0 | 41.5.1 | 41.5.0 | 40.9.3 | 40.10.0 | 39.8.9 | 39.8.10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| X | ⚠️ | ⊕ | ⊕ | ⊕ | ⊕ | ⊕ | ⊕ | ⊕ | ⊕ |
| bindist | ⚠️ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| bluetooth | Enable Bluetooth. Disabling bluetooth does break WebAuthn. Could also break something else. Improved patch is welcome. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| bundled-toolchain | Download and use the upstream binary toolchain(s) to build Chromium | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| clang | Use Clang compiler instead of GCC | ✗ | ✗ | ⊕ | ⊕ | ⊕ | ⊕ | ⊕ | ⊕ |
| cpu_flags_arm_neon | ⚠️ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| cpu_flags_ppc_vsx3 | ⚠️ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| cups | ⚠️ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| custom-cflags | ⚠️ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| debug | Enable DCHECK feature with severity configurable at runtime. Mostly intended for debugging and development, NOT RECOMMENDED for general use. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| dev-dependencies | Keep Electron's devDependencies. This makes them available in node_modules. For example "asar" utility is one of them. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| ffmpeg-chromium | (binpkg only) Use Chromium FFmpeg fork (<pkg>media-video/ffmpeg-chromium</pkg>) rather than mainline FFmpeg (<pkg>media-video/ffmpeg</pkg>) | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| gtk4 | Build with GTK4 headers | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| hangouts | Enable support for Google Hangouts features such as screen sharing | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| kerberos | ⚠️ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| libcxx | Use bundled C++ Standard Library (libc++) | ⊕ | ⊕ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| nvidia | Use libXNVCtrl library from <pkg>x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers</pkg> instead of the bundled one | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| optimize-thinlto | Whether to enable ThinLTO optimizations. Turning ThinLTO optimizations on can substantially increase link time and binary size, but they generally also make binaries a fair bit faster. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| optimize-webui | Optimize parts of Chromium's UI written with web technologies (HTML/CSS/JS) for runtime performance purposes. This does more work at compile time for speed benefits at runtime. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| pax-kernel | Allow building on a PaX-enabled kernel | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| pgo | Enable PGO. Requires bundled binary profile data in sources tree. Often requires masked/testing llvm. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| proprietary-codecs | Enable codecs for patent-encumbered audio and video formats | ⊕ | ⊕ | ⊕ | ⊕ | ⊕ | ⊕ | ⊕ | ⊕ |
| pulseaudio | ⚠️ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| screencast | Enable support for remote desktop and screen cast using <pkg>media-video/pipewire</pkg> | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| selinux | ⚠️ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| system- | ⚠️ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| thinlto | Build with ThinLTO support. LTO (Link Time Optimization) achieves better runtime performance through whole-program analysis and cross-module optimization (highly recommended). | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| ungoogled | Apply ungoogled-chromium modifications to chromium sources (electron sources are not modified be it better or worse). Might break electron apps or electron itself! | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| vaapi | ⚠️ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| wayland | ⚠️ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Type | File | Size |
|---|---|---|
| DIST | chromium-069d424e41f42c6f4a4551334eafc7cfaed6e880.patch | 1597 bytes |
| DIST | chromium-3abf0048fc862a2db04031466be5f45a70c77a6d.patch | 20070 bytes |
| DIST | chromium-acb47d9a6b56c4889a2ed4216e9968cfc740086c.patch | 4513 bytes |
| DIST | chromium-bd9e1afdde061d4870cf69de39b04caac26960f2.patch | 1354 bytes |
| DIST | chromium-rust-toolchain-6f54d591c3-7-llvmorg-23-init-5669-g8a0be0bc.tar.xz | 271641712 bytes |
| DIST | ungoogled-chromium-142.0.7444.175-1.tar.gz | 650884 bytes |
| DIST | ungoogled-chromium-144.0.7559.132-1.tar.gz | 656922 bytes |
| DIST | ungoogled-chromium-146.0.7680.177-1.tar.gz | 668979 bytes |
| DIST | ungoogled-chromium-148.0.7778.96-1.tar.gz | 660740 bytes |