Install Chromium (Google chrome) web browser in Ubuntu

46 Comments to “Install Chromium (Google chrome) web browser in Ubuntu”

1. Jeff says:

   November 7, 2009 at 7:37 am

   I sent you this as an email, but it may have been messed up in the sending. I rewrote a chunk of it after I realized it did not work unless it was executed as root:

   Script to install Google Chrome:
   http://www.mediafire.com/file/tjrj02why0y/chrome.sh

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2. Matt says:

   November 13, 2009 at 3:05 am

   Thanks for the instructions – worked perfectly on my Karmic x64 box! Copy, paste, Chromium

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3. La Gran M says:

   November 18, 2009 at 9:58 am

   Thanks, im looking for this right now..

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4. Shoaib Nawaz says:

   November 22, 2009 at 2:38 pm

   Thanks you for this useful post.
   Is the source of this browser is provided as open source with the release of ChromeOS?

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5. retnet says:

   December 6, 2009 at 6:25 pm

   excellent….
   i only used :

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

   and
   $ sudo apt-get install chromium

   in terminal.
   and good work.
   thank’s for sharing.

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6. Gunjan says:

   January 25, 2010 at 6:49 pm

   Thanks a lot for the instructions…. was exactly what i was looking for…

   Worked perfectly for me!

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7. Gaffel I Auget says:

   February 17, 2010 at 2:08 pm

   I followed your instructions on Karmic for netbooks, on the last input this happened:
   sudo apt-get install chromium-browser
   Reading package lists… Done
   Building dependency tree
   Reading state information… Done
   E: Couldn’t find package chromium-browser

   What?

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8. Markandey says:

   February 23, 2010 at 2:34 pm

   yes, this works !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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9. Mahmoud F.Elshazly says:

   March 17, 2010 at 5:12 am

   Hi,
   if you typed
   $sudo apt-get install chromium
   you will be installing a nice game called chromium but the right command is
   $sudo apt-get install chromium-browser

   Thank you.

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10. Jesus says:

    July 30, 2010 at 8:46 am

    Hi, hahaha Mahmoud .. i got the game trying to install that browser … jajaja

    …. for those still looking for it to work like Gaffle.

    i downloaded the package from http://chrome.google.com
    and then applied steps

    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

    then just used the package manager from my ubuntu 8.10 OS and worked!! wohooo!!!

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11. sree says:

    September 17, 2010 at 4:38 pm

    not working for my ubuntu 9.04

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12. Bumpkin says:

    November 4, 2010 at 4:50 pm

    gksudo gedit would be more appropriate.

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13. Dedi says:

    November 24, 2010 at 4:07 pm

    Thanks for the tutorial now i can browse using chromium.

    I put the article on my blog… thx

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14. andy says:

    January 7, 2011 at 3:42 pm

    Ok jeff, like you are trying to encourage newbies to install an unknown package from an unknown site as root, it’s against my principles too
    anyway its fun to tinker around…

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15. San says:

    July 24, 2011 at 12:21 pm

    ubantu 10.10
    Clicked download button from google.com
    Then clicked Install button on Ubantu Software installation button.

    Everything worked within a minute.

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16. Nivaas says:

    May 19, 2012 at 6:51 pm

    Thanks for posting, its a huge information, i am using Ubuntu OS

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