That’s it! Step 3: Enjoy the new Chromium! If this doesn’t sound troublesome for you, you can go ahead in adding the PPA to your system: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:saiarcot895/chromium-beta Step 2: Install the Packagesįirst, make sure that you didn’t install the Snap version (or any other versions) on your machine: sudo apt remove chromium-browserĪnother simple apt command would be enough to install the browser now sudo apt install chromium-browser His full profile on LinkedIn with his information are available on the Internet if you just Google his name (Won’t link them here for his privacy).

However, this PPA is maintained by a software engineer at Cisco, and the build scripts he used are all published on GitHub. Normally, we wouldn’t recommend adding such PPAs let alone installing a sensitive piece of software like a web browser from it.

Step 1: Add the Chromium Beta PPAįirst, we would like to tell you that this is an unofficial PPA containing the beta versions of Chromium. However, you would be glad to know that there are still methods which you can use to get Chromium browser as a traditional Debian package instead of using a Snap.Īnd today, we’ll show you how to do that. Canonical is determined to push them further in the upcoming Ubuntu releases too. Read more about it in our detailed article about Snaps, Flatpak and AppImage. They were designed to fix many issues and problems in the traditional packaging systems, such as dependency hell, version control and other issues. Snaps are new app package format for Linux.

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