How To Install Chromium on CentOS 8

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Chromium on CentOS 8. For those of you who didn’t know, The Chromium project covers two utilities such as Chromium and Chromium OS, which are the open-source projects of the Google Chrome browser and Google Chrome OS. Chromium has been developed as an open-source browser project whose critical mission is to offer a more secure, faster, and more stable way to navigate the web where threats are constant at every minute.

This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you through the step-by-step installation of Chromium on a CentOS 8.

Prerequisites

• A server running one of the following operating systems: CentOS 8.
• It’s recommended that you use a fresh OS install to prevent any potential issues.
• A non-root sudo user or access to the root user. We recommend acting as a non-root sudo user, however, as you can harm your system if you’re not careful when acting as the root.

Install Chromium on CentOS 8

Step 1. First, let’s start by ensuring your system is up-to-date.

sudo dnf clean all
sudo dnf update

Step 2. Installing Chromium Browser on CentOS 8.

To install Chromium on CentOS 8, just do it with dnf install command:

sudo dnf install chromium

Step 3. Accessing the Chromium Web Browser.

Finally, you can run the Chromium browser from the terminal by typing “chromium-browser” or start it from Start Menu, Applications/ Internet/Chromium Web Browser.

chromium-browser

For the first time you run Chromium, it will prompt you to enter a password. Just type a password and start using Google Chrome or Chromium on CentOS 8 as a normal web browser.

Congratulations! You have successfully installed Chromium. Thanks for using this tutorial for installing the Chromium web browser in CentOS 8 system. For additional help or useful information, we recommend you to check the official Chromium website.