The days of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer are numbered.  That alone is cause for a massive celebration!  And it is pretty much Microsoft’s own fault.  They consistently neglected to innovate in the Internet browser field.  Allowing Mozilla Firefox to kick in the door, leaving it wide open for several other up and coming web browser’s out there.

Google has launched their own take on the Internet browser called Chrome,  Based upon the Chromium project And it is definitely headed in the right direction.  All the while Microsoft continues to mindlessly walk down the wrong path, not paying any attention to what the user’s want from a web browser.  Not to mention ignoring web standards.

*Sigh

My blood boils just thinking about it, so I’ll just leave it at that for now.  I will instead guide you on how to install the Chromium browser in Ubuntu Linux 9.04.

  1. Add the Chromium PPA repository
    2. $ sudo sh -c "echo 'deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main' >> /etc/apt/sources.list"
$ sudo sh -c "echo 'deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main' >> /etc/apt/sources.list
  2. Add the authentication key for the new PPA repositories.
    3. $ sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 0xfbef0d696de1c72ba5a835fe5a9bf3bb4e5e17b5

    Expected Output

    Executing: gpg --ignore-time-conflict --no-options --no-default-keyring --secret-keyring /etc/apt/secring.gpg --trustdb-name /etc/apt/trustdb.gpg --keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 0xfbef0d696de1c72ba5a835fe5a9bf3bb4e5e17b5
gpg: requesting key 4E5E17B5 from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: key 4E5E17B5: public key "Launchpad PPA for chromium-daily" imported
gpg: no ultimately trusted keys found
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:               imported: 1  (RSA: 1)
  3. Update your repository list
    4. $ sudo aptitude update
  4. Install the Chromium Browser
    5. $ sudo aptitude install chromium-browser

    Expected Output

    Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
 chromium-codecs-ffmpeg ia32-libs-chromium-browser
Suggested packages:
 chromium-browser-l10n
The following NEW packages will be installed:
 chromium-browser chromium-codecs-ffmpeg ia32-libs-chromium-browser
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
Need to get 18.5MB of archives.
After this operation, 44.6MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
  5. Select ‘Y’ to continue, After it is complete you can find the Chromium Browser under the following menu’s.
  • Applications >> Internet >> Chromium Web Browser

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