Yandex browser (help in installing)

MrAiupov

Hello.

I really love Solus Linux, and have been using it for many many years. But I still can't make it the main distribution.

It's all about just one browser. I use Yandex Browser because of some unique features. Audio translation of videos (more recently , also from Chinese), and translation of images into any language, with a single button in the context menu. Plus, some of our state websites (in Russia) work exclusively through Yandex Browser. I'm too lazy to bother every time with other browsers to install and update certificates from the state.

I know that there is a Yandex Browser in the Flathub repositories. But it behaves much (very) slower than a regular browser.
https://flathub.org/apps/ru.yandex.Browser

Couldn't help with the correct installation of this browser in Solus Linux?
(I don't understand packaging and installing my own packages at all, I would like to get tips and instructions on the steps)

-- Deb file (official repository)
https://repo.yandex.ru/yandex-browser/deb/pool/main/y/yandex-browser-stable/
-- Rpm file (official repository)
https://repo.yandex.ru/yandex-browser/rpm/stable/x86_64/

Examples of assemblies on other distributions:
-- Arch Linux aur (community)
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/yandex-browser
-- Void Linux (community)
https://gitlab.com/vsyr89/yandex-browser

It is also worth noting that there are minor problems with video playback, but this is a temporary bug that will be fixed in future updates. Please do not pay attention to him. At the moment, the problem is solved by simply replacing the file libffmpeg.so in the /opt/yandex/browser/ folder from the Chromium browser.

If someone wants to try audio translation of videos in any browser using Yandex services, then you can try an extension from third-party developers.
https://github.com/ilyhalight/voice-over-translation

But here is the translation of images from Yandex, a very important function for me, and nowhere have I found the same cool extension.

An example of how it all works. (it slows down because the flatpack, it doesn't matter which distribution)

brent

MrAiupov two success stories in 1 thread--not the browser, just Yandex disk. But if you can duplicate the methods and find the .sh maybe you'll have a shot.
https://discuss.getsol.us/d/4212-yandex-disk

edit/proprietaty, no source code/tarball offered that could see. debs and rpms only. lotta dead ends. gotta research more. I did not do a proper search here at the forum, did you?

third edit: solus success with rpm but dated 2019 https://discuss.getsol.us/d/705-yandex-browser/5

WetGeek

Why does "Yandex" always remind me of Guardians of the Galaxy"?

MrAiupov

brent yes, I found the instructions from 2019, but I thought it was outdated

I don't want to break the system

brent

MrAiupov that's the thing with distro package "dealbreakers"--we find a workaround or a good substitute...or we don't. Many first-timers flee after they can't get Timeshift, etc.It's an RPM/DEB package world right now, but this scrappy Independent distro has always been worth it to me...

I know in Russia it's the official browser and comes stock in the russian distros Rosa and Alt....that said is Audio Translation exclusive to Yandex? I do not know what you mean by translate pictures into words.

I don't know. With that RPM thing I would at least try. No guts, no glory. And any errors you could share with the forum. If I have time later I will look around the web some more. I'm not convinced it can't be done..

MrAiupov

brent

I do not know what you mean by translate pictures into words.

I showed it on the video. ☝️
From 0:00 to 0:47 voice translation of the video.
From 0:47 to 1:47 translation of text in pictures.

MrAiupov

I used the old 2019 instruction.
https://discuss.getsol.us/d/705-yandex-browser/5

installed packages rpm и rpm-devel
sudo eopkg install rpm rpm-devel
Downloaded the rpm package, stable version.
https://repo.yandex.ru/yandex-browser/rpm/stable/x86_64/
Opened the console, in the folder where the rpm package is located.
Installed the package using the command (without dependencies)
sudo rpm -ivh --nodeps filename.rpm

Done. Check if Youtube and Reddit are working well. (video)

I got a couple of ffmpeg errors. But I already wrote in the first message about this error.

the problem is solved by simply replacing the file libffmpeg.so in the /opt/yandex/browser/ folder, the file itself can be taken from the chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra package.

You can search in other sources as well. I took it from here https://github.com/nwjs-ffmpeg-prebuilt/nwjs-ffmpeg-prebuilt/releases, version 0.78.1. Unpacked the archive, opened the terminal in this folder and copied the file to the desired folder in the browser.

sudo cp ./libffmpeg.so /opt/yandex/browser/

And the video playback started working.

Let me remind you once again that the bug is temporary. If you have Youtube and Reddit working well. Then you don't have to do anything. And you should stop at the fourth point.

The installation was carried out on an absolutely clean system. I didn't install any dependencies.
Yandex browser works amazing, very fast, like lightning. 😻

Harvey

Just to note. As the description on the rpm package in Solus repo says.

The RPM Package Manager is provided in Solus to enable building RPM for RPM-based Linux distributions from Solus using tools like 'mock'. To build packages for Solus, use 'ypkg' and 'solbuild'.

Using it to install packages can cause conflicts/breakages with Solus, we do not support using RPM for anything other than listed in the description.