Installing chromium browser?

[Zebulon Walton]

I was able to successfully install chromium on mobian using flatpak:

sudo apt install flatpak  # but it was already installed for some reason
flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
flatpak install flathub org.chromium.Chromium

Chromium seems to run perfectly fine (based on playing around with it for the last 30 minutes).

Thanks, I installed it and it works fine. In fact, Chromium seems to run noticeably faster on the Pinephone than Firefox does. The only issue I've run into so far is that it doesn't seem to work with X forwarding. (Firefox does.)

Code:

[mobian@mobian ~]$ send flatpak run org.chromium.Chromium

[2:2:0122/184020.513615:ERROR:browser_main_loop.cc(1438)] Unable to open X display.

(The send() bash function is from another thread on the forum and had to be modified to accept additional command line parameters. Running Chromium from the command line works directly on the Pinephone from the Kings Cross terminal.)