{"id":299,"date":"2009-03-17T22:39:12","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T03:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/?p=299"},"modified":"2009-03-17T22:40:04","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T03:40:04","slug":"chromium-on-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/2009\/chromium-on-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"Chromium on Ubuntu"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve previously mentioned that I’ve toyed with Chrome<\/a> a bit, both on Windows and I’ve tried out the various ways to make it run under Linux.\u00a0 The Windows experience isn’t bad, but the Linux story was pretty unusable\/uninteresting.<\/p>\n

A slashdot post<\/a> went by that mentioned the new 2.0 version of Chrome and indicated that a Linux build was available, but also mentioned how usable it was.\u00a0 I had to try it out.\u00a0 If you’re interested here is what you need to do.<\/p>\n

Start at the PPA (personal package archive) for Ubuntu Chromium<\/a>.\u00a0 It will instruct you to add a line to your \/etc\/apt\/sources.list file.\u00a0 Since I’m running Intrepid Ibex I added the following:<\/p>\n

deb http:\/\/ppa.launchpad.net\/chromium-daily\/ppa\/ubuntu intrepid main<\/code><\/p>\n

Then you need to add the key if you want to avoid the warnings about an untrusted source.\u00a0 Execute this command line:<\/p>\n

sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 5a9bf3bb4e5e17b5<\/code><\/p>\n

Then update your apt-cache:<\/p>\n

sudo apt-get update<\/code><\/p>\n

Followed by installing chromium itself:<\/p>\n

sudo apt-get install chromium-browser<\/code><\/p>\n

Its still very early. Tabs don’t currently work, https seems broken in some way, no flash support, crashes, etc. On the bright side – it is native Linux and now that you’ve hooked yourself up to the PPA you should get regular refreshes as part of the system update process.\u00a0 There is lots that is working – Google Reader<\/a> for example, and my favorite Chrome feature the omnibar seems to be working well too.<\/p>\n

Oh yeah, Happy St. Patrick’s Day.
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I’ve previously mentioned that I’ve toyed with Chrome a bit, both on Windows and I’ve tried out the various ways to make it run under Linux.\u00a0 The Windows experience isn’t bad, but the Linux story was pretty unusable\/uninteresting. A slashdot post went by that mentioned the new 2.0 version of Chrome and indicated that a … Continue reading “Chromium on Ubuntu”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions\/302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}