Have installed ppa
"Canonical Chromium Builds" team with
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:canonical-chromium-builds/stage
which previously installed chromium version 51.0.2704.79.
Am attempting to install the newest version of chromium available at the ppa
for Precise
.
$ lsb_release -a
returns
Description: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS
When trying
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install chromium-browser
the following is logged at terminal
Get:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/canonical-chromium-builds/stage/ubuntu/ precise/main chromium-browser i386 52.0.2743.116-0ubuntu0.12.04.1.1015
where the newest version in above ppa
for Precise
is listed as
chromium-browser 53.0.2785.89-0ubuntu0.12.04.1.1018 (2016-09-07)
Trying
$ sudo apt-cache policy chromium-browser
logs
Candidate: 52.0.2743.116-0ubuntu0.12.04.1.1015
How to install the latest version of the ppa
? Or, alternatively, the latest version 53+ dev
build of chromium-browser at Precise
?
Best Answer
I looked at the repo's
Packages.bz2
file for 12.04 and 16.04 and saw that therePackages.bz2
were not updated to point to the latest version of chromium available in the repo.Maybe the maintainer forgot to do it
So I would recommend you to use another ppa or wait beacuse the repo's devel section which ,if I am right means that the update is still in testing process and not ready as considered by the maintainer .
And as you asked how can you install then you may use these commands:
cd /etc/apt/sources.list.d
sudo nano canonical-chromium-builds-ubuntu-stage-xenial.list
and change the line :
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/canonical-chromium-builds/stage/ubuntu precise main
to
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/canonical-chromium-builds/stage/ubuntu xenial main
and then run
sudo apt update && sudo apt install chromium-browser
Before editing the source file
After editing the source file