How to Install Chromium (Google chrome) in Ubuntu using deb package
Posted by admin on September 20th, 2008 
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First you need to download .deb package from here using the following command
wget http://media.codeweavers.com/pub/crossover/chromium/cxchromium_0.9.0-1_i386.deb
Now you have cxchromium_0.9.0-1_i386.deb package install this package using the following command
sudo dpkg -i cxchromium_0.9.0-1_i386.deb
This will complete the installation
If you want to open chromium go to Applications->CrossOver Chromium->Chromium
Chromium web browser in action
September 20th, 2008 at 5:48 am
http://dev.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/build-instructions-linux :
“Note: There is no working Chromium-based browser on Linux. Although many Chromium submodules build under Linux and a few unit tests pass, all that runs is a command-line “all tests pass” executable.”
Please explain the anomaly.
September 20th, 2008 at 10:50 pm
it’s funny, the more i use Chrome, the more unstable it seems to get… crashes a lot more, can’t handle sites with flash, hangs every time i close a tab… all that to say, i’m switching back to Firefox
September 20th, 2008 at 11:46 pm
At a guess from the wording, this is actually using wine, or more likely the wine derivative “Crossover” to run the Win32-based app. It is vaguely possible that it is alternatively a win32 application built against winelib, which some claim is “better”(tm) than running under wine.
September 21st, 2008 at 8:25 am
Hi,
i have tried the wine/chrome solution from codeweavers but it seems buggy in some ways. The Java Port is not as fast at it should be with Chrome and the GTK / Layout has some bugs, too (in my opinion). On the other hand is it really nice and good that these guys doing this stuff. But i hope (just of beeing interested in) Google will release a real linux port soon; they really should.
Have a nice Day and sorry for my broken english
Chris
September 21st, 2008 at 6:49 pm
I’ll stick to Firefox. When they do a “real” Linux version then I’ll give a try.
September 22nd, 2008 at 2:14 am
Let us all remember that chrome is still in beta for Windows, and no releases for any other OS, including of course Linux, I have a computer with WinXP at the office and I have installed Chrome on it, however, like Media Boy said, the more I used it the more it crashes, I don’t know if there’s something related to the underlying OS, or its programming needs serious overhaul.
I was amazed by its speed, and I can’t wait to get a stable release for Linux anytime soon, this will push other “competitors” to move on to this new technology (Mozilla, Opera).
September 23rd, 2008 at 11:00 am
It doesn’t look very good. I’d rather wait for the Linux version.
September 24th, 2008 at 9:10 am
There is a simple issue with Chromium. I had installed Chromium my favorite space shooter Game. After I installed Chromium, it took the ownership of the command chromium. Now I am unable to start the game.
September 26th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
I’ve installed Chromium and I’m finding it extremely crashy (although it does behave nicely when it does fall over!) - I’ll come back to this in a few months when there’s a native linux version I imagine. I use a lot of Google products and would like to have a more seamless experience…
October 13th, 2008 at 6:07 pm
schweet, and here I am googling ‘wine chrome’ ; way better than my solution!
October 14th, 2008 at 11:25 am
chrome really working in ubuntu???
October 23rd, 2008 at 6:32 pm
actually, there’s no need in “sudo dpkg -i cxchromium_0.9.0-1_i386.deb”, if you use gui you may just click on cxchromium_0.9.0-1_i386.deb - there will be a graphics dpkg that’ll do all the rest
November 7th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
is there any amd64 version of chromium?
November 9th, 2008 at 4:32 am
good very funny.
thanks
November 12th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
This is what did the trick for me -
This is a guide to help you install Google Chrome on Ubuntu Hardy Heron, there are other ways, but this is the one that works for me, hope it will help you.
Ready to give it a shoot?
Step 1 - Update WINE
In order for the Chrome installation on Ubuntu to be successful you have to update your WINE version to 1.1.4.
Type (or copy) this in to your command line -
wget -q http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/387EE263.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -
sudo wget http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/sources.list.d/hardy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/winehq.list
sudo apt-get update
Step 2 – Get all necessary software
Winetricks is a script that will allow you to get all the necessary software you need for this installation.
The last command below will install Firefox into WINE, this is needed for the third step.
wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks
mv winetricks /usr/sbin/
winetricks riched20 riched30 flash msxml3 corefonts firefox
Install Firefox into WINE.
Step 3 - Installing Chrome
Once you have installed Firefox into WINE, launch Firefox in WINE and go to - http://www.google.com/chrome/
Download and run Chrome setup.
Step 4 – Launch Google Chrome
Once the download and install are complete, type this command to launch Chrome -
wine “$HOME/.wine/drive_c/windows/profiles/$USER/Local Settings/Application Data/Google/Chrome/Application/chrome.exe” –no-sandbox –new-http
Hope this worked for you and you can use Google Chrome off of you Ubuntu system.
I’m using Ubuntu for a month so I guess this is a good guide if I was able to follow it.
December 16th, 2008 at 5:53 pm
Wow! I really wanted Chrome to work on Ubuntu, and it works! Whenever I try to update it gives an error “Update server is not available (error: 1)
Any help?
December 21st, 2008 at 8:26 am
Any idea on what to do next after sudo dpkg? i am not using gnome - may i know what the cli command is?