Chromium PPA status
At this point, it appears that the builds linked off of the Chromium Browser pages on Launchpad have become inactive and out of date. The last dev, beta, and daily successful builds from this particular project were made about 65 weeks ago(over a year).
At least for the dev and daily builds Does someone know why the Chromium daily package isn't build anymore? the original build machines broke last year and were never restored(per the maintainer micahg).
As far as the ppa:a-v-shkop/chromium PPA goes, it looks like the builds had some issues back in April(?) as a result of Google changing the ToS on the use of their Google API keys that have yet to be resolved. I am waiting to hear back from the maintainer on their status.
New Chromium PPAs available
Currently, there are two new Chromium PPAs available for dev and beta. I spoke with the maintainter, yesterday on the status of his PPAs, and it appears that he kicked off some new builds within the last couple of hours.
- Here is the dev build PPA available on Launchpad. - currently at version 29.0.1547.15
- Here is the beta build PPA available on Launchpad. - currently at version 28.0.1500.89 (build is still pending as I write this)
Additionally, there are two Debian/Ubuntu channels(dev and beta ) provided be Google: that provide deb packages for installation. See The Chromium Dev-channel projects page for additional information. Note that these deb files are branded as Chrome and not chromium, but they do appear to following the versioning as laid out by the Development Release Calender
The most current build is available directly from the trunk runs a number of version ahead of that as laid out by the release calender. Note that this needs to be installed manually (See @Radu's answer), and reportedly will require manual updating).
Launchpad chromium-dev PPA
There is a chromium dev build(>= version 29.0.1547.0 at this time) available as a PPA here.
Installation from the command line:
The latest dev PPA can be obtained by running the following commands from the terminal(Ctrl-Altt):
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:saiarcot895/chromium-dev
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install chromium-browser
Installation from the Synaptic Package Manager:
Select Settings --> Repositories --> Other Software --> Add and enter: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/saiarcot895/chromium-dev/ubuntu YOUR_UBUNTU_VERSION_HERE main
Select Add source. Next, select the Reload button on the menu to re-index your package list
In the Quickfilter field, enter "chromium" and you will see the latest versions of the packages available for installation from this project.
Finally, mark the packages that you are interested in, and click the Apply button.
I have not personally tested this build. Take a look at launchpad for more details on this PPA.
The last successful build (29.0.1547.15-0ubuntu0ppa3) occurred on 7.09.2013 is available for saucy, raring, quantal, precise, and oneiric.
Launchpad Chromium-Beta PPA
There is a Chromium Beta build available as a PPA here.
Installation from the command line:
The latest dev PPA can be obtained by running the following commands from the terminal(Ctrl-Altt):
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:saiarcot895/chromium-beta
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install chromium-browser
Installation from the Synaptic Package Manager:
Select Settings --> Repositories --> Other Software --> Add and enter: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/saiarcot895/chromium-beta/ubuntu YOUR_UBUNTU_VERSION_HERE main
Select Add source. Next, select the Reload button on the menu to re-index your package list
In the Quickfilter field, enter "chromium" and you will see the latest versions of the packages available for installation from this project.
Finally, mark the packages that you are interested in, and click the Apply button.
See here for the stable release:
Always remember that PPAs are provided by the community, you should be aware of the possible risks before just adding a PPA.