How to install specific chromium version in ubuntu 16.04

Question

I want to install Chromium 72.0.3626.121. What is the procedure?

Answer 1

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/docs/linux/build_instructions.md provides the procedure.

Install depot_tools by cloning the depot_tools repository:

git clone https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/tools/depot_tools.git

Add depot_tools to the end of your PATH (you will probably want to put this in your ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc). Assuming you cloned depot_tools to /path/to/depot_tools:

export PATH="$PATH:/path/to/depot_tools"

When cloning depot_tools to your home directory do not use ~ on PATH, otherwise gclient runhooks will fail to run. Rather, you should use either $HOME or the absolute path:

export PATH="$PATH:${HOME}/depot_tools"

Get the code for 72.0.3626.121 with

mkdir ~/chromium && cd ~/chromium && fetch --nohooks --no-history chromium 

install additional build dependencies with

./build/install-build-deps.sh

run the hooks with

gclient runhooks

set up the build with

gn gen out/Default

paying attention to modifications for faster builds if you wish, then build Chromium with

autoninja -C out/Default chrome

Answer 2

Just follow along

1. wget https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+archive/72.0.3626.121.tar.gz this is the source file that you want

2. Configure it after you go through the INSTALL / README - each source is very different. This will tell you how ready your system is with configuration, dependencies and libraries

3. If you get an error youre in luck - you know exactly the dep/lib missing. Get after figuring this dependency/library - start a new google search adn figure how to install it. One of the easiest configurations and installs from source is the CMAKE program - you will probably never fail in installing from source.

4. Once config is done - you only need to make. Make is a command so just use make - but ./makefile should be used with an executable file. Id follow what the README says

5. You can use checkinstall if you want to manage your package with a package manager. I would.