Thursday, July 19, 2012

upgrading chromium on debian 6.0.5

so i installed linux debian 6.0.5 and tried to get chrome from the repo's, but it's not included and i cannot download it from the chrome download webpage, since the company blocks the download page. However, the repo's did have chromium, which is the open source version of chrome. i installed this, but the version i got was chromium 6.0 (see pic below).

so i googled and found a ppa for chromium stable builds (https://launchpad.net/~chromium-daily/+archive/stable). ofcourse for ubuntu >:

adding ppa to debian synaptic sources list - i had a little trouble figuring this out, the solution is embarassingly simple and since googling didn't help, here is what to do. synaptic sources does not recognize "ppa:chromium/stable" format, it wants "deb xxxx" format. click the "technical details for this ppa" link and it shows various deb formats for various ubuntu releases :)

i tried precise (12.0.4), but various dependencies could not be met. i tried maverick (10.10), but various dependencies could not be met. Lucid (10.04) was the only source repository which worked. The deb for chromium stable for lucid is "deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/stable/ubuntu lucid main"

It upgraded me to chromium 18.0.x.x :) (see below)



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