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Add system76 PPA as alternative source for Chromium. #13

Closed haggen88 closed 3 years ago

haggen88 commented 3 years ago

I recently noticed that the system76 team has Chromium to be installed as PPA, maybe it could be added as an additional source.

https://launchpad.net/~system76/+archive/ubuntu/pop/

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:system76/pop sudo apt-update sudo apt install chromium

smurphos commented 3 years ago

Hi @haggen88,

I don't think using the pop PPA is a good idea -

1) it ships a number of other packages that could cause issues on a non POP system - note the disclaimer on the PPA

WARNING: This PPA is for Pop!_OS, and it may cause breakage on other Ubuntu-based OS's. Use of this repository on non-Pop_OS installations is at your own risk!

2) although at time of writing the chromium version is reasonably up to date, until a couple of weeks ago the build was several months old - I wouldn't be confident that the POP version is going to get security updates in a timely manner going forward.