When Linux Chromium users discover the latest versions won't work as they have before, they'll be unhappy too. With this move, Google has alienated code maintainers and developers at multiple Linux distributions. Instead, I will do the right thing: advise people not to use Chrome but switch to Firefox.' I will not package a Chromium build with Google's own ID and secret embedded. 'I will not package and distribute a Chromium for Slackware if that package is crippled by the absence of login to Chrome Sync. Arch Linux maintainers have thought about it, but, for now, they'll continue to keep Chromium around even after the March 15th deadline.Įric Hameleers, who maintains Chromium for Slackware Linux, is dropping Chromium. Other Linux distributions are edging closer to dumping Chromium. This will make the Fedora Chromium build significantly less functional (along with every other distro packaged Chromium).' Tom Callaway, Chromium's Fedora maintainer explained that it's because Google is 'cutting off access to the Sync and 'other Google Exclusive' APIs from all builds except Google Chrome. Red Hat's community Linux distro Fedora, however, was seriously considering dumping Chromium. Mint leader Clement 'Clem' Lefebvre is sticking with Chromium. Linux Mint recently started bundling its own Chromium browser. According to sources, Canonical has not decided yet whether it will support Chromium without the end-user support for the Google services specific APIs.

While Snap has made this easier, it's still not easy. Every new stable version has to be built for each supported Ubuntu release − 16.04, 18.04, 19.04, and the upcoming 19.10 − and for all supported architectures (amd64, i386, arm, arm64). Linux xxxx 5.11.0-1021-oracle #22~20.04.Google releases a new major version of Chromium every six weeks, with typically several minor versions to address security vulnerabilities in between. I get the following error: Get:4 stable InRelease Į: Unable to locate package google-chrome-stableĪnyone have any ideas why this doesn't work for me? Could it be that Google chrome package is not available for my system: dpkg uname -a Sh -c 'echo 'deb stable main' > /etc/apt//google.list'Īpt update & apt install -y google-chrome-stable -no-install-recommends I'm trying to install chrome using the commands below: wget -q -O - | apt-key add.

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