Chromium, an open-source project providing the code for google chrome

Today, I am going to introduce Chromium, an open-source project providing the google chrome, which you can say it is a linux chrome.

The speed of chromium is more quick then firefox. Moreover, this web browser is more stable and friendly then firefox. If you think the firefox is a big monster, the chromium may be a rabbit. The following commands tell you howto install this browser and able to use flash player.

edit the source in your sources.list

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

Add the following source in

#the google-chrome source

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

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

Then type the command to install the browser

sudo aptitude install chromium-browser chromium-browser-l10n

The first package is the main program of chromium, and the second one is the language package.

Don't forget to update and upgrade after installing something.

If you start to use the chromium now, you will fail to play flash player. So, how to enable the flash support for chromium?

Now, you need to install flash using the following command

sudo aptitude install flashplugin-nonfree (I guess you have installed it.)

And then, use the follwing command

sudo cp /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/chromium-browser/plugins

Now, you can run the chromium browser using the following command from terminal

chromium-browser --enable-plugins