Ubuntu – Get Chromium on Ubuntu 20.04 Without Snap

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I was wondering how to install Chromium WITHOUT SNAP! When I install Chromium it installs Snap so how do you do this?

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Part One: Download Available Dependencies.

  1. Download these:
sudo apt install libgcc1 libmpx2 gcc-8-base

Part Two: Get .deb files of Chromium

  1. Install VirtualBox
  2. Run Ubuntu 18.04 in it
  3. Download Chromium (and dependencies) with download-only flag
sudo apt-get --download-only install chromium-browser chromium-browser-l10n chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra
  1. Go to /var/cache/apt/archives and the .deb files will be there.
  2. Copy the deb files into a shared folder between the guest and the host OS.
  3. Download and install the packages.

Part 3: Disable Updates in Update Manager or other Update Software

  1. Running
sudo apt-mark hold chromium-browser

will disable the Updates. You will only be able to install them manually.(From new .deb packages from 18.04).

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