Install Chromium same version

Retrieve Chromium Installation Info from Old Machine

To check the installed version of Chromium on your old machine, run:

apt-cache policy chromium-browser

Example Output:

chromium-browser:
  Installed: 90.0.4430.93-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
  Candidate: 90.0.4430.93-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
  Version table:
 *** 90.0.4430.93-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Install the Same Version on the New Machine

To install Chromium on the new machine (optionally using a PPA if needed):

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:saiarcot895/chromium-dev
sudo apt update
sudo apt install chromium-browser

Note: If you are trying to match a specific version, you may need to manually download the
.deb package from
Ubuntu packages archive
or use apt-cache madison chromium-browser to locate available versions.

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