chromium is A WebKit (Blink) powered web browser that Google doesn’t want you to use
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install chromium on CentOS 8.
What is chromium
Chromium is an open-source web browser, powered by WebKit (Blink).
We can use yum or dnf to install chromium on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install chromium.
Install chromium on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install chromium using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install chromium
Install chromium on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install chromium using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install chromium
How To Uninstall chromium on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the chromium package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove chromium
chromium Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/chromium
/etc/chromium/master_preferences
/etc/chromium/native-messaging-hosts
/etc/chromium/policies
/etc/chromium/policies/managed
/etc/chromium/policies/recommended
/usr/bin/chromium-browser
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/09
/usr/lib/.build-id/09/48ca258a1dbd28b42f45aec66c8aba9f1499ca
/usr/lib/.build-id/2a
/usr/lib/.build-id/2a/125aa76281d40105ed3a3f339c7caf9dbcd199
/usr/lib/.build-id/2a/9ef14147b9d38c7f852a6c70abc21ecf593643
/usr/lib/.build-id/65
/usr/lib/.build-id/65/aba0e147224cbbd3814f9820d86c2cef2f3021
/usr/lib/.build-id/6c
/usr/lib/.build-id/6c/d2d4ddfcee4a5f5b98431e8a1ca3b644042771
/usr/lib/.build-id/92
/usr/lib/.build-id/92/389e693656ec7af6df3ef8cdc4550e02f1a367
/usr/lib/.build-id/9c
/usr/lib/.build-id/9c/18d529189650ee5662140a2f6ff5971abaf73f
/usr/lib64/chromium-browser
/usr/lib64/chromium-browser/MEIPreload
/usr/lib64/chromium-browser/MEIPreload/manifest.json
/usr/lib64/chromium-browser/MEIPreload/preloaded_data.pb
/usr/lib64/chromium-browser/PepperFlash
/usr/lib64/chromium-browser/chrome-sandbox
/usr/lib64/chromium-browser/chrome_100_percent.pak
/usr/lib64/chromium-browser/chrome_200_percent.pak
/usr/lib64/chromium-browser/chromium-browser
/usr/lib64/chromium-browser/chromium-browser.sh
/usr/lib64/chromium-browser/icudtl.dat
/usr/lib64/chromium-browser/libEGL.so
/usr/lib64/chromium-browser/libEGL.so.TOC
/usr/lib64/chromium-browser/libGLESv2.so
/usr/lib64/chromium-browser/libGLESv2.so.TOC
/usr/lib64/chromium-browser/resources.pak
/usr/lib64/chromium-browser/snapshot_blob.bin
/usr/lib64/chromium-browser/swiftshader
/usr/lib64/chromium-browser/swiftshader/libEGL.so
/usr/lib64/chromium-browser/swiftshader/libEGL.so.TOC
/usr/lib64/chromium-browser/swiftshader/libGLESv2.so
/usr/lib64/chromium-browser/swiftshader/libGLESv2.so.TOC
/usr/lib64/chromium-browser/v8_context_snapshot.bin
/usr/lib64/chromium-browser/xdg-mime
/usr/lib64/chromium-browser/xdg-settings
/usr/share/applications/chromium-browser.desktop
/usr/share/doc/chromium
/usr/share/doc/chromium/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/chromium/chrome.json
/usr/share/doc/chromium/chrome_policy_list.html
/usr/share/gnome-control-center/default-apps/chromium-browser.xml
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/chromium-browser.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/chromium-browser.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/chromium-browser.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/chromium-browser.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/chromium-browser.png
/usr/share/licenses/chromium
/usr/share/licenses/chromium/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/chromium-browser.1.gz
/usr/share/metainfo/chromium-browser.appdata.xml
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install chromium on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
