How To Install Chromium Browser in Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala

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ubuntu_chromium Chromium is the open source browser on which Google Chrome browser is based. Except for the logo, which is of a slightly different color, Chromium is almost identical to Google Chrome. In this article, we will explain to you how to install Chromium browser in Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala.

Google Chrome for Linux is now available officially. Click here to find out how to install it.

Open the terminal and execute the command given below to edit the source.list file.

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

Add the two lines given below lines in the source.list file.

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

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

Save and exit. Add the GPG key using by executing the command given below.

sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 0xfbef0d696de1c72ba5a835fe5a9bf3bb4e5e17b5

Now, update the source list using the command given below.

sudo apt-get update

Then, install Chromium by running the command

sudo apt-get install chromium-browser

To start Chromium, you will find it under Applications -> Internet -> Chromium Web Browser.

Here are some screenshots.

Tags: 9.10, chrome, chromium, karmic, koala, ubuntu

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Narayana swamy

it says here:
narayana@narayana-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install chromium-browser
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
chromium-browser: Depends: libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.18.0) but 2.16.1-0ubuntu2 is to be installed
Depends: libstdc++6 (>= 4.4.0) but 4.3.3-5ubuntu4 is to be installed
Depends: libxml2 (>= 2.7.4) but 2.6.32.dfsg-5ubuntu4.2 is to be installed
E: Broken packages

Ricky

it seems like you have dependecies "libstdc++6", "libxml2" and "libgtk2.0-0" which are of another version other than that required by Chromium.
To fix this open Synaptic, hunt down these packages and "Force Version" these packages to those indicated in the error message. To force another version of a package, select the package and press Ctrl+E and select the version required.

Google has also released its Chrome browser officially for linux as well. So, if you would like to go for it instead, you can check it out here.

June

do you have another location where I could get the key for this?

it says here:
gpg: requesting key 4E5E17B5 from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpgkeys: HTTP fetch error 7: couldn't connect to host
gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found.
gpg: Total number processed: 0

...as I tried using both from digitizor and Fra S.M.O.G.

Ricky

Chrome is now officially available. So, you can install Chrome instead. To install Chrome you can check this article

ricky_lais

Chrome is now officially available. So, you can install Chrome instead. To install Chrome you can check this <a= "href=article'>" target="_blank">http://digitizor.com/?p=5038">article

Fra S.M.O.G.

you can use instead of manually edit the sources.list file use the new command provided in 9.10 for adding PPA repository:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:chromium-daily
it add the PPA entries in the file and add also the key ;)