Install Chromium on Arch Linux/Manjaro in One Line of Command

Cyrus Kao30 Jan 2022

Last modified on 22 Apr 2023 @ 06:11:00.

Chromium is an open-source web browser, also the core of many popular browsers like Google Chrome, Brave, Vivaldi and even Microsoft Edge. There are people actually using Chromium in their day-to-day work, since it's the only way to experience the bleeding edge features of the core.

Installation

Install the preferred version of Chromium from the official and Arch user repository.

Chromium

Using pacman
```
$ sudo pacman -S chromium
```
Using yay
```
$ yay -S chromium
```

Chromium Dev

Using pacman

$ sudo pacman -S --needed git && git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/chromium-dev.git && cd chromium-dev && makepkg -si

Using yay
```
$　yay -S chromium-dev
```

Chromium Nightly

Using pacman

$ sudo pacman -S --needed git && git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/chromium-snapshot-bin.git && cd chromium-snapshot-bin && makepkg -si

Using yay
```
$ yay -S chromium-snapshot-bin
```

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