How to install chromium on Ubuntu 15.10

You might want to have more than one web browser on your ubuntu, specially if you are developing websites or web app which need to be tested on different browser. Besides firefox, chrome, opera, you can also install chromium.

Chromium is very similar with google chrome web browser, the different is chromium is open source and maintain by community of developers, unlike google chrome which is close source code and maintain by google itself.

Just like google chrome, chromium also have dependencies with other packages, so first we need to install those packages, open up your terminal/console/command line, and then run this command:

sudo apt-get install libappindicator1

sudo apt-get install fonts-liberation

Alright if those two packages are properly installed, next we can go ahead install chromium web browser. Run this command from command line/console/terminal:

sudo apt-get install chromium-browser

kernelpanic@kernelpanic:~$ sudo apt-get install chromium-browser
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  chromium-browser-l10n chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra
Suggested packages:
  webaccounts-chromium-extension unity-chromium-extension adobe-flashplugin
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  chromium-browser chromium-browser-l10n
The following packages will be upgraded:
  chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra
1 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 111 not upgraded.
Need to get 59.8 MB of archives.
After this operation, 253 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ wily-updates/universe chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra amd64 47.0.2526.106-0ubuntu0.15.10.1.1218 [882 kB]
Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ wily-updates/universe chromium-browser amd64 47.0.2526.106-0ubuntu0.15.10.1.1218 [55.5 MB]
Get:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ wily-updates/universe chromium-browser-l10n all 47.0.2526.106-0ubuntu0.15.10.1.1218 [3,413 kB]
Fetched 59.8 MB in 55s (1,086 kB/s)                                            
(Reading database ... 192491 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra_47.0.2526.106-0ubuntu0.15.10.1.1218_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra (47.0.2526.106-0ubuntu0.15.10.1.1218) over (47.0.2526.73-0ubuntu0.15.10.1.1215) ...
Selecting previously unselected package chromium-browser.
Preparing to unpack .../chromium-browser_47.0.2526.106-0ubuntu0.15.10.1.1218_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking chromium-browser (47.0.2526.106-0ubuntu0.15.10.1.1218) ...
Selecting previously unselected package chromium-browser-l10n.
Preparing to unpack .../chromium-browser-l10n_47.0.2526.106-0ubuntu0.15.10.1.1218_all.deb ...
Unpacking chromium-browser-l10n (47.0.2526.106-0ubuntu0.15.10.1.1218) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.15-0ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.4-1) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-6ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu3) ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.2~bzr0+15.10.20150627.1-0ubuntu1) ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.58ubuntu1) ...
Setting up chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra (47.0.2526.106-0ubuntu0.15.10.1.1218) ...
Setting up chromium-browser (47.0.2526.106-0ubuntu0.15.10.1.1218) ...
Setting up chromium-browser-l10n (47.0.2526.106-0ubuntu0.15.10.1.1218) ...

You should have chromium web browser by now, check your unity dash search, type in 'chrome' or 'chromium', you should see it.

Enjoy your new web browser :)