Friday, January 22, 2010

Install Chromium (Google chrome) web browser in Ubuntu

SkyHi @ Friday, January 22, 2010
Chromium is an open-source browser project that aims to build a safer, faster, and more stable way for all Internet users to experience the web. The Chromium codebase is the basis for Google’s Chrome browser.

First you need to edit the /etc/apt/sources.list file

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

Add one of the following


For ubuntu 9.10 (armic) Users add the following two lines

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu karmic main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu karmic main


For ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) Users add the following two lines

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main

For ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid) Users add the following two lines

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu intrepid main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu intrepid main

Save and exit the file

Now add the GPG key using the following command

sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 0xfbef0d696de1c72ba5a835fe5a9bf3bb4e5e17b5

Update the source list using the following command

sudo apt-get update

Install chromium using the following command

sudo apt-get install chromium-browser

Using Chromium

You can open chromium from Applications--->Internet--->Chromium Web Browser

Once it opens you should see similar to the following screen

Chromium in action

Chromium version details



REFERENCE
http://www.ubuntugeek.com/install-chromium-google-chrome-web-browser-in-ubuntu.html