Confronted with this issue I found that I need to run a version of Chromium that is newer then the one in the repositories in order to use an extension that I want.
Can I get a such new, even latest version?
In Windows I can use beta Chromium portable that is newer than Google Chrome.
How to get that newest Chromium here in Ubuntu?
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Best Answer
By default (Using all repos) 13.04 has Chromium version: 28.0.1500.52-0ubuntu1.13.04.3
I found the following while searching the PPA list in Launchpad:
Chromium Beta Builds - https://launchpad.net/~saiarcot895/+archive/chromium-beta (chromium-browser version 31.0.1650.34 as of 2013-11-01)
Chromium Dev Builds - https://launchpad.net/~saiarcot895/+archive/chromium-dev (chromium-browser version 32.0.1671.3 as of 2013-11-01)
API Keys
Warning: Google API Keys are not included with these packages as mentioned in both PPA Links. The process of creating them is quite involved and only recommended for developers!
Do not update chromium-browser from those PPAs if you haven't understood the process below!
Installation
To add either of them do the following
Adding Beta PPA
Adding Dev PPA
If you already have it installed then simply do a
sudo apt-get ugprade
instead of installing the package again. Your end result should be something like this:Now if you want the Trunk version, please see the answer by Radu
UPDATE - Remember to add the API Keys since when opening for the first time Chromium you will get this:
And basically all Google services (Like syncing for example) will not work. So follow the How To above about adding the Api-Keys. To open the profile simply type the following on the terminal:
And then follow what the instructions say.
Know that this PPAs only have 1 person (The same person) which means this could be a temp solution (Totally depends on the PPA Maintainer).