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How To Install Chromium Web Browser on Linux

Want to install Chromium Web Browser on your Linux box now?. Here is a small tutorial on how to get Chromium Working on your Linux system. Chromium is the multi platform open source web browser which strives for a secure, fast and stable web browsing experience for its users. Chromium is the upstream project for Google Chrome and provides latest set of features to its end users.

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Chromium provides the following Features

  • multi-process architecture that provides better security and stability
  • A lot of  themes ready for use.
  • Has dozens of extensions to enhance functionality of browser via HTML, CSS and JavaScript
  • preferences sync – keeping the same settings, bookmarks, extensions and theme over multiple machines
  • Private browsing with incognito mode
  • Faster address to IP resolution through DNS prefetching.

Install Chromium Web Browser on Debian based systems

How to install it on Debian, Ubuntu, Kali

sudo apt update
sudo apt install chromium chromium-lwn4chrome

Proceed with the installation by pressing the y key in your Keyboard.

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
....
0 upgraded, 16 newly installed, 0 to remove and 62 not upgraded.
Need to get 69.1 MB of archives.
After this operation, 282 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y

Install Chromium on Fedora Linux

On a Fedora Linux, Chromium can be installed using the Software application and via command line.

sudo dnf install chromium

Install Chromium on openSUSE Linux

For an openSUSE Linux system, run the commands below while replacing the version of openSUSE. E.g 15.2 with 15.3.

zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:Leap:15.2:Update/standard/openSUSE:Leap:15.2:Update.repo
zypper refresh
zypper install chromium

To launch it with the terminal, just type:

chromium

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