How To Install chromium on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install chromium on Rocky Linux 8. 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 Rocky Linux 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 Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install chromium.

Install chromium 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 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install chromium

Install chromium 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 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install chromium

How To Uninstall chromium on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove chromium

chromium Package Contents on Rocky Linux 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/1c
/usr/lib/.build-id/1c/1c4f42464344c304e5cb1c639ee03ceab0fd0e
/usr/lib/.build-id/20
/usr/lib/.build-id/20/1817b7979eb03f7e3c7d15e82bd69556aae1fe
/usr/lib/.build-id/65
/usr/lib/.build-id/65/aba0e147224cbbd3814f9820d86c2cef2f3021
/usr/lib/.build-id/92
/usr/lib/.build-id/92/389e693656ec7af6df3ef8cdc4550e02f1a367
/usr/lib/.build-id/95
/usr/lib/.build-id/95/f2a00d80b463d95e55fb79a920db1e4c39ec80
/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

chromium website

Summary

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