This tutorial will help you install Ungoogled Chromium web browser on Ubuntu 24.04 "Noble Numbat". Ungoogled Chromium is the free software version of Chrome and its developers offers better privacy by cleaning it out from integrating with Google. This continues our last month's article Librewolf - A Firefox Alternative. Happy installing!
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For Ubuntu Lunar and Jammy
At the time we write this article, only Lunar (23.04) and Jammy (22.04 LTS) OS versions supported officially by the project. That means, if you install it this way, you will be able to upgrade easily if there is new version available right from the developer. If you are using OS version other than these, or if you prefer AppImage (download+click+run) format, please skip to next section.
1. Visit their official website https://ungoogled-software.github.io.
2. On the web page, click Download.
3. If the download page offers you a link to new download page ("Downloads moved here"), click it, now you are on the GitHub of Ungoogled Chromium.
4. On the GitHub page, find the words "Debian & Ubuntu" and click the link, now you are at another GitHub page.
5. On this GitHub page, find the words "Getting OBS packages" and click the link, now you are at Open Build Service (OBS) the internet software builder generously provided by openSUSE (it is like Launchpad PPA to Ubuntu users).
6. On this OBS page, find Ubuntu, click it, and below it click "Add Repository", you will see an instruction to add OBS as a new repository (similar to a PPA) to your Ubuntu system.
7. Run Terminal and copy-paste each of these four (4) command lines followed by Enter:
$ echo 'deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/ungoogled_chromium/Ubuntu_Jammy/ /' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/home:ungoogled_chromium.list
$ curl -fsSL https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:ungoogled_chromium/Ubuntu_Lunar/Release.key | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/home_ungoogled_chromium.gpg > /dev/null
$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install ungoogled-chromiumSample picture:
8. Ungoogled Chromium installed successfully. Now you can run it from applications menu.
For Ubuntu 24.04 and Older/Newer Versions
This method makes use of AppImage version of Ungoogled Chromium from third-party that is recommended in the official website.
1. Repeat steps 1-3 from the above.
2. On the Github page, look for "Third-party Binaries", click the link, now you are on another page offering a list of Ungoogled Chromium downloads for various operating systems.
3. On the page, look for "GNU/Linux AppImage 64-bit", click the link, you downloaded an application in a package file format that looks like this "ungoogled-chromium_x.y.z.a.AppImage". At the moment, we observe the version is 128 and the size is about 170 megabytes.
(Files showing how an AppImage package file would look like. In this example, Ungoogled Chromium logo is visible just like exe on Windows or apk on Android.)
4. Run that AppImage file.
5. Ungoogled Chromium successfully running. Happy browsing!
6. To run the program again, simply run the AppImage file.
7. No need to uninstall the program because it is not installed.
Notes
We pick Ungoogled Chromium because of numerous reasons:
1) It is an active Free Software project.
2) It is a modified version of Chromium Browser (the original version of Google Chrome) that promises the code is cleaned from nonfree bits and deletes all Google integration.
3) GNU Guix project maintains latest version of Ungoogled Chromium. This can be viewed as a guarantee that Ungoogled Chromium is without doubts free software.
4) It is available as traditional DEB packages instead of Snap.
(Ungoogled Chromium viewing a Wikipedia article entitled Free Software)
What is Free Software?
See Also
How To Run AppImages on Ubuntu 24.04
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