How to install Chromium on your Fedora machine

Chromium is a free and open source web browser, developed by Google.

Chromium can be installed on Fedora, via the default package manager, as Chromium can be found on the default Fedora repositories.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to install Chromium on your Fedora machine.

Step 1 - Update your Fedora system

Before installing Chromium on Fedora, you need to update your system in order to be able to install the latest version of Chromium from the default repositories on Fedora.

You can easily update Fedora via dnf package manager.

To do so, simply launch the terminal, by pressing CTRL + ALT + T, and execute the command below.

sudo dnf update -y

Step 2 - Install Chromium on Fedora

Your Fedora system is now up to date, and you can now install Chromium.

To install Chromium on Fedora, is quite easily, as Chromium can be found on the main repository of Fedora, which means installing Chromium on Fedora, can be done via dnf package manager.

To do so, simply run the command below.

sudo dnf install chromium

Step 3 - Verify Chromium Installation on Fedora

Chromium is now installed on your Fedora system. Now you can proceed to verify that Chromium was installed correctly on your machine.

To check Chromium version on Fedora, simply run the command below.

chromium-browser --version

As you can see, we are running Chromium version 122.

Step 4 - Launch Chromium on Fedora

After verifying that Chromium was installed correctly on your Fedora system, all you have to now is launch Chromium and start using it to browse on the internet.

Chromium can be be launched via two different methods on Fedora.

Method 1: Launch Chromium via Terminal on Fedora

To launch Chromium via terminal on your Fedora system, simply execute the following.

chromium-browser

Method 2: Launch Chromium via Applications Menu on Fedora

To launch Chromium via Applications Menu on your Fedora system, follow the steps below.

1) Go to "Activities".

2) Search for: "Chromium".

3) Click "Chromium" to launch it.

Chromium will start as shown in the screenshot below.

Update Chromium on Fedora

Chromium can be easily updated on Fedora via dnf package manager.

To update chromium and other packages on your Fedora system via dnf, execute the following.

sudo dnf upgrade --refresh

Remove Chromium on Fedora

Since we installed Chromium via dnf package manager, we can use dnf to remove it also.

To remove Chromium from your Fedora system, simply run the command below.

sudo dnf remove chromium

Next, to proceed removing Chromium, you need to press Y, then Enter.