Chromium is an open source browser project. In case you have not realised by now, it is the code base where Google Chrome grew from. Crossover chromium is a Mac and Linux port project, where I have to eventually try my luck to get similar user experience of browser of Chrome on Ubuntu. There are some posts introducing way of installing Chrome via Wine. I do not particularly like the idea to install another layer of run time engine between browser and os as one of the nice things about Chrome is its low latency, which is the not exactly the whole idea of wine anyway (portability of windows applications to Linux).
To keep this short, get Chromium up and running, the following steps works for me (Hardy 8.04):
First thing first, you are unlucky as I were, you have to upgrade to 8.10 at least to be able to run Chromium. Regardless how many people say it works, my finding is, yes, the install will be completed with warnings on a few dependencies. The worst thing is, the browser is barely usable and crashes very easily.
So do a "update-manager -d" to get you from 8.04 to 8.10; another one will then get you upgraded to 9.04.
1. Download .deb package
wget http://media.codeweavers.com/pub/crossover/chromium/cxchromium_0.9.0-1_i386.deb
2. Install deb package
sudo dpkg -i cxchromium_0.9.0-1_i386.deb
3. Using Ubuntu PPA
sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
Add the following two lines
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu intrepid main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu intrepid main
Do NOT use "jaunty" version on Hardy otherwise you will have a crashing install. "jaunty" is for 9.04. Save and exit the file
4. Add and activate GPG key
sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 0xfbef0d696de1c72ba5a835fe5a9bf3bb4e5e17b5
5. Update source list in the repository
sudo apt-get update
6. Finally, get chromium installed!
sudo apt-get install chromium-browser
Now go to Applications->Internet->Chromium Web Browser, and you are sorted.
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