bluan
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Chromium browser updating failure

Fri Feb 16, 2018 7:25 am

Hi, Everyone:

Has anyone ever run into this problem? - when entering the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) developer console URL at console.cloud.google.com in the Raspberry Pi built-in Chromium borwser, the brower displays an error message saying that the current version has a serious security vunerability, and it requires an update before it can connect to GCP, yet after the update code is executed and browser re-started, the same error message keeps showing up.

Appreciate if anyone knows the solution to get out of this logjam and can share the insights and suggestions!

Thanks!

Bill

bluan
Posts: 2
Joined: Fri Feb 16, 2018 7:14 am

Re: Chromium browser updating failure

Sat Feb 17, 2018 9:21 pm

I got it working now after updating the browser. As it turned out, Google Cloud Console changed, and the runtime image flashed to SD card from the AIY site is obsolete, which still has the version 61 of the Chromuim borwser (while the latest is 64 now).

So for those of you who just started the AIY project with Voice Kit, if you run into the same problem as me getting into the GCP Console page from your RPi browers, you need to update your Chromuim borwser on RPi. To do that, following these steps:

1) Go to this page: https://packages.debian.org/stretch/chromium and go to the bottom of the page, and select the ARM version download link (the 3rd one in the list), and on that page, download the package from the security.debian.org/debian-security link on the ARM download page, which should download the chromium_63.0.3239.84-1~deb9u1_armhf.deb pack to your RPi3 device.

2) Since the packet name is too long, just rename it to something short, like Chrome.deb

3) Move it from the download folder to the Pi folder, and run the following command: sudo apt install -f

This should unpack the package, resolve the dependencies, and ge the new Chromuim borwser installed on your RPi3, and then, you can successfully log into the GCP Console, by going to console.cloud.google.com, without seeing the security blocking error.

Good luck!

Bill

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