How To Install chromium-headless on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install chromium-headless on Rocky Linux 8. chromium-headless is A minimal headless shell built from Chromium

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install chromium-headless on Rocky Linux 8.

What is chromium-headless

A minimal headless client built from Chromium. headless_shell is built without support for alsa, cups, dbus, gconf, gio, kerberos, pulseaudio, or udev.

We can use yum or dnf to install chromium-headless on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install chromium-headless.

Install chromium-headless on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install chromium-headless using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install chromium-headless

Install chromium-headless on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install chromium-headless using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install chromium-headless

How To Uninstall chromium-headless on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the chromium-headless package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove chromium-headless

chromium-headless Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/5d
/usr/lib/.build-id/5d/8f00d0e6295fd56aa656027ede7f743f252185
/usr/lib64/chromium-browser/headless_shell

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install chromium-headless on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.