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
I had to use this in karmic:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:chromium-daily/ppa
because the add-apt-key doesn’t seems to exist…
ciao.
Claudio, try this in Karmic terminal:
sudo apt-get install add-apt-key
However, on my Karmic installation the command
sudo add-apt-key ppa:chromium-daily/ppa
was unsuccessful – it said there is no such key available.
I do believe that Canonical has quickly renamed add-apt-key to add-apt-repository early on during release, invalidating any early blog posts and comments about this.
add-apt-repository is really the recommended way to do it, as it’s already readily available and does the exact same thing as far as I’m aware.
Worked like a champ.
or, you can install it from the official .deb
http://www.google.com/chrome
Have fun!
@Xavier, Chrome doesn’t support bookmarks sync yet, chromium does.
and btw this command for karmic users working same like for jaunty:
sudo apt-key adv –recv-keys –keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 0xfbef0d696de1c72ba5a835fe5a9bf3bb4e5e17b5
Regards 🙂
I faced one problem, does any kind people know how to fix? I installed on 0904 Ubuntu!
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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.
get fences failed: -1
param: 6, val: 0
Is that an error or just a warning and does it still install/run properly anyway?
Hi DaVince,
The traditional font is empty square “[]” but english fonts are ok. Chrome browser works fine.
But I use firefox, the fonts works fine.
Br
Prince
Have you tried changing the page’s encoding (which can be found by clicking the “new page” type of icon next to the tool button)? Enabling or rather disabling Auto Detect in that same menu might also have a different effect.
This happens when installing as instructed, right? Because I’ve never seen the word “bottle” used outside the winebottler application (which is a frontend for the Windows app runner Wine).
Ya, I tried. But useless, I wonder if some Traditional fonts need to be install for Chrome.
has anyone tried installing Chrome as a local application on LTSP think Clients, Please post how you did it. Chrome is not as heavy as Firefox, so it should run better.
I tried to change fonts to AR PL Ukai TW (Big5) and ok.
Thanks all for your kind help.
Prince
The Beta Chromium I downloaded from Google.com 4.0.249.43, the one in the ppa right now (Jan 21, 2009) is 4.0.303.0. That leads me to believe the official site’s beta is substantially older than the PPA version. I’m going to uninstall the official and move to the PPA. I doubt they update the beta either. My beta I downloaded on the first day, and it certainly didn’t add the PPA to my /apt/sources.list.
The PPA version is also a pull from the chromium SVN. Typically there is a higher level of instability in any nightly release plan. So, if you get a copy working really well you might want to remove the PPA entry and just sit with it until it goes stable because the next daily release might be disappointing.
Regarding the latest nightlies, I’d like to state they’re really unstable right now. I don’t know if it’s because of my new laptop but tabs will occasionally compleyely hang and even hang other tab processes, making Chromium unusable for that session until completely restarted.
Thank you, finally some instructions for linux that actually worked without errors the first time!!!
It Work Sir ji,
Thanks for writing such a helpful text..!!
Regards,
GAURAV MISHRA
there is a linux/ubuntu version of google chrome
Great man, thnx.
I have the same problem DaVince posted above. It completely hangs some times and is slow. I cant even open a webpage some times
Thanks! It worked like a charm 🙂
Chromium is diferrent of Google Chrome
Seamonkey is diferent of Firefox
Are similar but not is the same web browser ¬¬
The hanging still occasionally happens, but less than before. The new additions like extensions, page translation and bookmark syncing are also VERY awesome.
Also, Inukaze is right. Chromium is not *quite* Chrome.
Your method is quite long and inconvenient to install the browser.
Using this link i was able to add the repo easily
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/CommandLine
All you need to do is type 3 simple commands. (I use ubuntu 10.04 but it command is the same for 9.04)
1. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:chromium-daily/ppa
2. sudo apt-get update
3. apt-get install chromium-browser
I’m even lazier – but if any are interested: here are 2 steps that (w)gets the deb file right from google & cuts out any potential man-in-the-middle issues… and it even works in knoppix.
1.) wget http://dl.google.com/dl/linux/direct/google-chrome-beta_current_i386.deb
2.) sudo dpkg -i google-chrome-beta_current_i386.deb
As of this writing, it painlessly installed 5.0.375.29-beta. I suppose you could just run it again to update it…
~wiz
Thank you very much it worked like a charm!
When I use Chromium, Google Gears does not work. But, now I’m using Chrome, and everything is fine.
I used Chrome website to download chrome. everything was done automatically^)
but thanks a lot nevertheless!:))
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after i run the following command:
sudo dpkg -i cxchromium_0.9.0-1_i386.deb
i then received the following message:
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.
Unknown option –version
Unknown option –version
Unknown option –version
Unknown option –version
what does it mean? and what should i do to continue installing chrome?