5 Easy Steps to Install Chromium Browser on Ubuntu 20.04

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Steps to Install Chromium Browser on Ubuntu 20.04

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Step 1: Prerequisites

a) You should have a running Ubuntu 20.04 System.

b) You should have sudo or root access to run privileged commands.

c) You should have apt or apt-get utility installed in your System.

Step 2: Update Your Server

Before installing any application, it is highly recommended to sync your installed packages with the latest available updates on Ubuntu Repo using apt-get update or apt update command as shown below.

root@localhost:~# apt-get update
Hit:1 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal InRelease
Get:2 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates InRelease [114 kB]
Get:3 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security InRelease [114 kB]
Get:4 https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/edge stable InRelease [7,342 B]
Get:5 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports InRelease [101 kB]
Get:6 https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/edge stable/main amd64 Packages [5,558 B]
Get:7 http://ppa.launchpad.net/micahflee/ppa/ubuntu focal InRelease [17.5 kB]
Get:8 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/main amd64 Packages [1,026 kB]
Get:9 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/main i386 Packages [489 kB]
Get:10 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/main Translation-en [229 kB]
Get:11 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/main amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [283 kB]
Err:7 http://ppa.launchpad.net/micahflee/ppa/ubuntu focal InRelease
The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 4E72F77D7D158F33
Get:12 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/main DEP-11 48x48 Icons [60.5 kB]
Get:13 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/main DEP-11 64x64 Icons [95.1 kB]
Get:14 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/main amd64 c-n-f Metadata [13.5 kB]

Step 3: Install Chromium Browser

After successfully updating all the packages, you can now install the chromium browser by using apt-get install chromium-browser or apt install chromium-browser command as shown below.

root@localhost:~# apt-get install chromium-browser
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
libatomic1
Use 'apt autoremove' to remove it.
The following NEW packages will be installed:
chromium-browser
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 161 not upgraded.
Need to get 48.3 kB of archives.
After this operation, 164 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/universe amd64 chromium-browser amd64 1:85.0.4183.83-0ubuntu0.20.04.2 [48.3 kB]
Fetched 48.3 kB in 0s (142 kB/s)
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously unselected package chromium-browser.

Once installed, you can open this browser by typing chromium in the Search Box as shown below.

Step 4: Upgrade Chromium Browser

In case there is a new version available on Ubuntu Repo, you can upgrade chromium to that latest version by using apt-get upgrade chromium-browser command. Since here we already have the latest version installed, so it won't find any other version to update.

root@localhost:~# apt-get upgrade chromium-browser
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
chromium-browser is already the newest version (1:85.0.4183.83-0ubuntu0.20.04.2).

Step 5: Uninstall Chromium Browser

Once you are done with the browser, you can uninstall it by using apt-get remove chromium-browser or apt remove chromium-browser command as shown below.

root@localhost:~# apt-get remove chromium-browser
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
libatomic1
Use 'apt autoremove' to remove it.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
chromium-browser
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 161 not upgraded.
After this operation, 164 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
(Reading database ... 188083 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing chromium-browser (1:85.0.4183.83-0ubuntu0.20.04.2) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.64ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.36.0-1ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.24-1ubuntu3) ...

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