How to Install Chromium (Google chrome) in Ubuntu using deb package
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First you can use this tutorial to install chromium in Ubuntu using PPAs and after that you can try any one of the following methods.
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
Using Ubuntu PPA
First you need edit /etc/apt/sources.list file
gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
Add the following two lines for Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) Users
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 9.10 (Karmic) 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 10.04 (Lucid) Users add the following two lines
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu lucid main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu lucid 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
or For karmic users use the following command
sudo add-apt-key ppa:chromium-daily/ppa
Update source list
sudo apt-get update
Install chromium browser using the following command
sudo apt-get install chromium-browser
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This will complete the installation
If you want to open chromium go to Applications->CrossOver Chromium->Chromium
Chromium web browser in action
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.
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
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.
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
I’ll stick to Firefox. When they do a “real” Linux version then I’ll give a try. 😉
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).
It doesn’t look very good. I’d rather wait for the Linux version.
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.
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…
schweet, and here I am googling ‘wine chrome’ ; way better than my solution!
chrome really working in ubuntu???
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
is there any amd64 version of chromium?
good very funny.
thanks
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.
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?
Any idea on what to do next after sudo dpkg? i am not using gnome – may i know what the cli command is?
I am finding difficulty in installing chrome it is giving error……….
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cxbottle:warning: The current character encoding (UTF-8) may not be compatible with the encoding of the bottle (ISO-8859-1). This may cause applications to not find their files and thus lead to malfunctions.
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any help??????????
I used Chrome under windows and it is a really good browser. can’t wait till they come out with a version for linux
A very helpful and easy to follow tutorial for a ubuntu noobie. Thank you.
Thanks for your share ^^
Good!
Working!
In my opinion, if we want Linux to succeed as a main stream platform, we must refrain from using WINE or CROSSOVER to fix lacking of native Linux software. WINE and CROSSOVER are great but to use them to be able to try out a new browser is nut.
I use GIMP instead of WINE and Photoshop. I use OpenOffice instead of VirtualBox and MS Office.
Cheers,
y leave out x64?
Thanks for you post …
Some times key receiving might fail, it might happen if server is down try it after some time it will definitely works.
I am using Chrome browser (not with Wine, this is open source version) and i am really happy with it. Its easy to use, a nice interface, cool themes from google, it previews the latest websites i visited when opening a new tab, it never crash or quit until now (its been 15 days i installed..) I even can not get back to Firefox, this browser feels so fine in fullscreen mode.. Very easy and fast browser. Thanks for everybody who has taken role in programming. Strongly recommended. My chrome version is 4.0.212.0
For Ubuntu/Linux guys, download right from Google site using link below:
http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/eula_dev.html?dl=unstable_i386_deb
thank you so much …
Just to clear things up, the Ubuntu PPA does NOT use winelib.
See https://launchpad.net/~chromium-daily/+archive/ppa for more information.
They are daily builds, but is the native version.
how many times do we have to say it? Google Chrome IS NOT CHROMIUM ! RTFM !