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rlemon
Asked: 2011-12-20 12:22:22 +0800 CST

How to install the latest stable version of Chromium?

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Is there an easier way to install Chromium than what is described here?

Furthermore, is there an easier way to stay up to date with current Chromium releases rather than having to re-build Chromium each release? (a script which automatically grabs and installs the latest build possibly?).

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  1. Best Answer

    Chromium is currently not built for the chromium-daily PPA, which makes using it a bit of a security issue. Unless you can find a better PPA that stays up to date, I'd recommend you use the repo version of Chromium. Using an old browser on the internet will get you hacked. See:

    Does someone know why the Chromium daily package isn't build anymore?

    For the latest stable of Chromium click the button here:

    https://snapcraft.io/chromium

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  2. I've asked a similar question. What I do is use the daily zip archives. Within Chromium I install the Chromium Update plugin. It doesn't auto install or anything but I have quick access to the latest zip which I simply extract to the current location (in my case ~/opt/).

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  3. GUI method

    I remember that one of the first things that I made after I installed a fresh version of Ubuntu 13.04 it was to install Chromium browser Install Chromium browser. And I installed it from Ubuntu Software Center without to add any ppa repository or to download it from somewhere. Also, I remember that just a few days ago Software Updater announced me that there is a new version of Chromium to update.

    So it's sure that Canonical have decided to provide the most recent Chromium versions and you don't need to think anymore what is easier way to install Chromium or how to stay up to date with current Chromium releases. And here is the official Ubuntu package of Chromium browser on Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser.

    Proof:

    USC - chromium install

    As you can see from above image, you can also to install Unity Webapp extension once with Chromum Browser.

    Comand-line method

    Open a terminal and run next command:

    sudo apt-get install chromium-browser

    Proof:

    terminal - chromium install

    As a note, it seems that Chromium Likely to Replace Firefox As Default Browser in Ubuntu 13.10.

    If you are interested somehow by other versions of Chromium browser from Personal Package Archives (PPAs), here is a complete list with all of these (some of them have been abandoned): https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+ppas?name_filter=chromium-browser. And keep in mind that these PPAs are considered by Canonical unsupported and unsecured.

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  4. I had the exact same problem, and had come to the conclusion that Chromium had been abandoned. In any case, when the Unity Webapps Preview was released I installed it right away, and it updated both FireFox and Chromium. After FireFox moving so slowly it hurt, I moved back to Chromium and decided I could live with it being outdated... Lo and behold! It had been updated!

    To install the Webapps Preview:

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webapps/preview
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install unity-webapps-preview



    Wait for everything to install, and Chromium should be fully updated: Chromium 20.0.1132.47

    If you don't want to use the Webapps, then you can just go to Chromium's extension page and select to disable the add-on: Disable Webapps extension


    If you want to uninstall Webapps:

    sudo apt-get install ppa-purge
sudo ppa-purge ppa:webapps/preview


    N.B. Using ppa-purge removes all the packages that were installed or upgraded by the ppa you added: this means that Chromium and FireFox (as well as other applications) will be downgraded. If you use Chromium's sync function, this will cause an error when you start the program telling you that your profile is from a newer version of Chromium, and that you should upgrade or change profiles.

    Hope this helps!

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  5. Currently, the only way to get it that I can think of is by getting the source code and building it yourself. The packages in the chromium stable ppa failed to build. That was a week ago and I have already wrote an email to the maintainer of that ppa trying to make him aware of that problem but he would not write back…

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  6. Just add this repository to your software sources by entering the command below in the terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T).

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:chromium-daily/stable
sudo apt-get update

    Then:

    sudo apt-get install chromium-browser

    Right now this will not give you the latest Chromium, but the latest in the PPA which is 18.0.1025.x.

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  7. According to this page: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/LinuxChromiumPackages

    Chad Miller is the contact of Chromium builds for Ubuntu. He has a PPA with Chromium, but he adds in the description that it's better to use this: https://launchpad.net/~canonical-chromium-builds/+archive/ubuntu/stage

    Right now this PPA offer Chromium version 35, but is very likely that they update it.

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