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.