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Deprecated Checkout Instructions

Get the Source Code for the OS

If you just want to see the code, you can browse or search the source code repository.

If you did not download the Chromium depot tools, you must do this first.

You use the Chromium tools and Git to download the Chromium OS code from its Git repository.
  1. Get the Chromium depot tools. Make sure they are earlier in your path than any other gcl binaries on your system.

  2. Install git and Subversion onto your local machine:
sudo apt-get install git-core subversion

Note: The depot tools' gclient program currently requires git 1.6.6 or newer to sync git repositories.  Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) only provides 1.6.3.3.  If you are using Ubuntu 9.10 or earlier and receive an error message similar to git version 1.6.3.3 < minimum required 1.6.6, you may need to install a newer version of git from https://launchpad.net/~git-core/+archive/ppa.

  1. Get a copy of the Chromium OS repository:

    mkdir [chromiumos]
    cd [chromiumos]
    gclient config http://src.chromium.org/git/chromiumos.git
    gclient sync

    For write-access, you will need to use a the read-write URL.
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