Comments on: Howto install chromium using simple Script

By: pon

pon — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:17:19 +0000

for lucid
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elif [ "$vers" == "10.04" ]; then
echo “You are using $disto $vers”
echo “Adding Launchpad to /etc/apt/sources.list”
sudo cat >> /etc/apt/sources.list << EOF

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

EOF

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By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 06:38:34 +0000

I use Ubuntu Tweak. Add the third party repo for Chromium and after a reload, you’re prompted to install it. All GUI based work here. Also install Chrome through the Google repos.

By: JR0cket

JR0cket — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:45:18 +0000

Thanks for taking the effort to write this script and share it with us.

IMHO I would not have killed firefox without a warning or prompting the person running the script.

Do you really need to include the chromium startup in the script? You could prompt the user in the script if they now want to run Chromium, noting that if they want to import Firefox settings then they should exit Firefox first.

By: nme

nme — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:54:55 +0000

IMHO this method will work, but is far from being perfect.
Your script should use /etc/apt/sources.list.d/chromium.list dedicated file instead of /etc/apt/sources.list which might and will be replaced by Ubuntu upgrade scripts.

By: Denis

Denis — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:18:39 +0000

I am getting an error that says: Continue [y or n]? [: 29: null: unexpected operator
[: 76: Ubuntu: unexpected operator
This script only works with Ubuntu 9.10, 9.04. and 8.10.
You are using 9.10.
You will have to find another way to install Chromium.
Press ENTER to exit:
read: 76: arg count

By: plonstic

plonstic — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:09:13 +0000

hi,
thanks for the script.

A quick tip to simplify the distribution recognition :

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distro=$(lsb_release -i|awk ‘{print $3}’)
ver=$(lsb_release -c|awk ‘{print $2}’|sed ‘/$karmic$\|$jaunty$\|$intrepid$/!d’)
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then just test distro and version ($version must be empty string for a wrong version) and

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sudo cat >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/chromium.list << EOF
#Chromium Browser
##KEY sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com
0xfbef0d696de1c72ba5a835fe5a9bf3bb4e5e17b5
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu $ver main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu $ver main
EOF
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By: Mahesh Asolkar

Mahesh Asolkar — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:41:50 +0000

I don’t believe you need to do all this in Karmic (Ubuntu 9.10). All you need is:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:chormium-daily/ppa
$ sudo aptitude update
$ sudo aptitude install chromium-browser