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Firefox's website provides binary tarballs that I can easily extract and run, is there anything similar available for either Chrome or Chromium?

If not, how can I compile so I can run it the same way as the extracted files of binary tarball?

Jorge Castro
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Oxwivi
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All the Chromium builds for different systems are stored here as zip archives.

Binaries for Linux: 32 bit | 64 bit
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The latest 64-bit version is located here: 

http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/chromium-browser-snapshots/Linux_x64/LATEST/chrome-linux.zip

Where LATEST is contents of the file located here:

http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/chromium-browser-snapshots/Linux_x64/LAST_CHANGE

If you need the 32-bit version, remove _x64 from those links

This allows us to make a script to automatically download the latest build:

#!/bin/bash
CHROMIUM_ROOT="http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/chromium-browser-snapshots/Linux_x64"
CHROMIUM_LATEST=`wget -q -O - "$CHROMIUM_ROOT/LAST_CHANGE"`
wget $CHROMIUM_ROOT/$CHROMIUM_LATEST/chrome-linux.zip
Oleh Prypin
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  • How regularly do you suggest I check for and download the latest build? – Oxwivi Oct 06 '11 at 07:25
  • @Oxwivi: Maybe once a week? By the way, those builds aren't guaranteed to even work. I think you should just add [this PPA](https://launchpad.net/~chromium-daily/+archive/dev) and you will get quite fresh and quite stable builds of Chromium which will be updated together with your regular updates. – Oleh Prypin Oct 06 '11 at 11:57
  • I don't want installation packages like Deb. – Oxwivi Oct 06 '11 at 13:01
  • @Oxwivi: it's not `deb` – _ – Oleh Prypin Oct 06 '11 at 13:09
  • My bad for not checking it out. Well, I tried your script, doesn't work with either `_x64` or otherwise. – Oxwivi Oct 06 '11 at 13:13
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    Note, the folders now may have changed, so see https://www.chromium.org/getting-involved/download-chromium -> https://download-chromium.appspot.com/ -> https://github.com/scheib/chromium-latest-linux -> https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/chromium-browser-snapshots/o/Linux_x64%2FLAST_CHANGE?alt=media – sdaau Dec 21 '16 at 10:10
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In short there are no official tarballs of Chrome but if you don't mind breaking your profile you can try the continuous build tarballs mentioned in this Chromium-discuss group (and definitely avoid the nightly builds).

If you are on Ubuntu you are far better off using prepackaged version of Chrome. Google provide Chrome repositories for the major Linux distributions. If you're desperate, you could always download the deb/rpm and extract the contents and get the whole caboodle going with the wrapper script from a continuous build...

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  • The prepackaged version of Chromium (in the offical repositories) is like 3 versions stale. If you're going to suggest using prebuilt binaries, you *need* to mention [this guy](https://launchpad.net/~a-v-shkop). Google does offer an official repository for their Chrome browser, but the asker specifically mentioned Chromium (probably because he doesn't want Google breathing down his neck ;) – JamesTheAwesomeDude Feb 07 '13 at 19:50