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This is a step by step guide on how to build Dot Browser on Linux.
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This is a step by step guide on how to build Dot Browser on Linux.
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Minimum requirements:
8GB of RAM
4 physical CPU cores
20GB of disk space free
Recommended requirements:
16GB of RAM
8 physical CPU cores
35GB of disk space free
You'll need to be on a 64-bit operating system to clone and build Dot Browser.
If typing uname -m into a terminal returns x86_64 you are on a 64-bit computer.
The following software and tools are required for the build process:
Git ()
NodeJS ()
yarn ()
Rust 1.53.0 ()
We're now going to clone Dot Browser.
Or if you prefer using GitLab:
After the clone is complete, you'll want to enter the browser-desktop directory.
Now run ./melon bootstrap This will install the required dependencies.
Then run cargo install cbindgen sccache to install the two required Cargo packages.
Now run ./melon download This will download the source code.
Once you've downloaded the source code, you're going to want to import the patches. You can do this by running the command below.
If everything went smoothly with the import, you should see a "success" message.
Now, we're going to want to build Dot Browser for Linux.
It's a very resource intensive process so make sure you check the requirements against your computer. It usually takes 30 minutes for computers in the recommended requirements region.
If you would like to build Dot for 32-bit machines, add the
--arch i686flag to the build command.
Once the build is done, we need to make sure the build was successful, check to see if something appeared like:
If you see that message, you can move on to the final step.
The final step is to run your locally-built version of Dot Browser.
It's as simple as running:
And voilà, Dot should appear before your eyes!
If you encounter any issues, .
