How to install Google Chromium on the N900 #N900 #Maemo
PLEASE BE AWARE THAT YOU DO THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK I DO NOT TAKE ANY RESPONSIBILITY!
Firstly you need to go to this site (packages courtesy of Jace Kowski many thanks to him) and download libxss-1.1.3.deb and chromium-5.0.369.2.deb
Secondly you need to have root access.
Then launch a terminal and do
sudo gainroot
cd “wherever you downloaded the packages into”
dpkg -i libxss-1.1.3.deb
dpkg -i chromium-5.0.369.2.deb
Then just start the application and you are running Chromium the opensource version of Google Chrome
I haven’t done any extensive testing but Flash seems to work.
TIP: Apparently you can make Chromium more finger friendly by installing an extension called Chrome Touch (tip courtesy of zehjotkah in the talk.maemo.org forum)
It should look something like this



Uninstalling is very simple
sudo gainroot
dpkg -r chromium libxss
Video demo of Chromium on the N900 (thanks to Gab for the link)
embedded by Embedded Video
YouTube DirectVideo Demo of Chromium on the N900
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about 4 months ago
sweet – when i tell ppl my n900 is really a tiny linux box they tend to smle and nod while saying ‘yeah, so is android and even iphone is a bsd’.
something tells me that running chromium will seem amazing to these ppl and differentiate what i say from what they hear.
about 4 months ago
Hey, there’s a video that quickly demoes Chromium on the n900 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6C3t_UmwyQ
about 4 months ago
thanks for the video link gab, I will edit the post shortly to include the video
about 3 months ago
Thanks for your information.
I installed Chrome direct from Application manager.
Search for “chromium” in Application Manager.
Not sure if you need “Maemo extras-devel” in the application repositories / catalogues.
Joum