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Topic: chromium installation (solved)

How do i install chromium in chrunchbang? i hoped to find it in the synaptic pacage manager... do i have to add a repo in the pacage manager to find it? I am comletely new to all things linux, so i need a bit of guidance!!

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Re: chromium installation (solved)

Do you want Google Chrome of Chromium specifically?

You can get a .deb file for Google Chrome here. You need the 32bit .deb if you run a 32bit version of Crunchbang or the 64bit .deb if you run 64bit version of Crunchbang. To install this, go to your downloads folder and double click the downloaded .deb file.

If you specifically want Chromium, see the command below by Tunafish.

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EDIT: Forgot I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 and he's not.

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Re: chromium installation (solved)

EDIT: I posted at the same time as Unia. If his solution works, that's much easier.
Unia: is chromium in the debian repository?
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Don't know if this is the best solution, but it worked fine for me:

I added the repository to my sources.list. Open a terminal and type:

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

in the text file, add:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu lucid main

save the file and close.
In terminal type:

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 4E5E17B5

to add the key for the launchpad ppa.

And then

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install chromium-browser

and chromium is installed... (if all goes well)

You can run chromium:
- from terminal, type 'chromium-browser' (without '-signs)
- press alt-f2, type 'chromium-browser'  (without '-signs)

Hope this works!
Tuna

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Re: chromium installation (solved)

Tunafish wrote:

EDIT: I posted at the same time as Unia. If his solution works, that's much easier.
Unia: is chromium in the debian repository?
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Not that I know, I don't use Debian but Ubuntu. My fault.

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Re: chromium installation (solved)

@Tunafish - Shouldn't it be "jaunty" instead of "lucid"?

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Re: chromium installation (solved)

anonymous wrote:

@Tunafish - Shouldn't it be "jaunty" instead of "lucid"?

Chromium is in the Lucid repo's

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Re: chromium installation (solved)

I know that but CrunchBang 9.04 is based on jaunty and the chromium-daily ppa is available for jaunty anyways.

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Re: chromium installation (solved)

anonymous wrote:

I know that but CrunchBang 9.04 is based on jaunty and the chromium-daily ppa is available for jaunty anyways.

Ohoh, we should find out first which version of #! Romo is using....

Romo, what are you using? #! 9.04 or Statler Alpha2?


Hahaha... just ask a simple question, and you get some totally confusing answers. Welcome to this forum!
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@Anonymous, can you clean out this mess?

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Re: chromium installation (solved)

Im back after a battery charge of those tiny 3-cell batterys on my acer aspire one ssd machine) 9.04
I went for UNIAs deb/chrome solution, and this worked just fine. As many will know, the ssd-disk on the 1. gen AAO can be very slow with firefox. The speed difference between Chrome(ium) and firefox is much bigger on the AAO/ssd than more Hevyweight machines. in short; now it useabel!!!

Thanks for the help!, without it i would have been stuck.

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Re: chromium installation (solved)

You're welcome, but don't forget to edit your topic title as [Solved] smile

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