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Hi all,

it seems to be a matter of fact that Chromium will not be added to the
repo.

So, I told ChatGPT to perform an online research, which RPM-based distros natively support Chromium including providing patches.

It says something like:

Fedora rLa Yes Officially provided, can be installed via dnf install
chromium

openSUSE Leap rLa Yes Chromium contained in official repo

openSUSE Tumbleweed rLa Yes Mostly newest versions


Has anyone tried to get Chromium - from foreign distro - running on a MGA
10 - x64 box?

Best regards,

Markus
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Markus Robert Kessler wrote:

Hi all,

it seems to be a matter of fact that Chromium will not be added to
the repo.

So, I told ChatGPT to perform an online research, which RPM-based
distros natively support Chromium including providing patches.

It says something like:

Fedora rLa Yes Officially provided, can be installed via dnf install
chromium

openSUSE Leap rLa Yes Chromium contained in official repo

openSUSE Tumbleweed rLa Yes Mostly newest versions

Has anyone tried to get Chromium - from foreign distro - running on
a MGA 10 - x64 box?

There is a version of Chromium available as a flatpak; https://flathub.org/pt-BR/apps/org.chromium.Chromium I think it is the
fastest and safest way to have Chromium running on Mageia.



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On 2026-07-15 07:08, Markus Robert Kessler wrote:

Hi all,

it seems to be a matter of fact that Chromium will not be added to the
repo.

So, I told ChatGPT to perform an online research, which RPM-based distros natively support Chromium including providing patches.

It says something like:

Fedora rLa Yes Officially provided, can be installed via dnf install chromium

openSUSE Leap rLa Yes Chromium contained in official repo

openSUSE Tumbleweed rLa Yes Mostly newest versions

Has anyone tried to get Chromium - from foreign distro - running on a MGA
10 - x64 box?

Best regards,

Markus

Running mga10 Plasma here. I installed Chromium from Flathub using
Discover. It's been working great so far.

I usually avoid Flatpaks unless there's no viable alternative, as they
will use more disk space than a distro's own packages. This is because
they usually each come with their own libraries, rather than the ones
from the system, making for unnecessary duplication.

TJ
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Il 15/07/26 13:08, Markus Robert Kessler ha scritto:

Hi all,

it seems to be a matter of fact that Chromium will not be added to the
repo.

So, I told ChatGPT to perform an online research, which RPM-based distros natively support Chromium including providing patches.

It says something like:

Fedora rLa Yes Officially provided, can be installed via dnf install chromium

openSUSE Leap rLa Yes Chromium contained in official repo

openSUSE Tumbleweed rLa Yes Mostly newest versions

Has anyone tried to get Chromium - from foreign distro - running on a MGA
10 - x64 box?

Best regards,

Markus

which is the official ( and reccomanded by the staff) browser of Mageia?
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On Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:57:07 +0200 kyuzo wrote:

Il 15/07/26 13:08, Markus Robert Kessler ha scritto:

Hi all,

it seems to be a matter of fact that Chromium will not be added to the
repo.

So, I told ChatGPT to perform an online research, which RPM-based
distros natively support Chromium including providing patches.

It says something like:

Fedora rLa Yes Officially provided, can be installed via dnf

install

chromium

openSUSE Leap rLa Yes Chromium contained in official repo

openSUSE Tumbleweed rLa Yes Mostly newest versions


Has anyone tried to get Chromium - from foreign distro - running on a
MGA 10 - x64 box?

Best regards,

Markus

which is the official ( and reccomanded by the staff) browser of Mageia?

Officially recommended browser is Firefox.
This one works and seems to be updated in MGA 9 indeed, but there are
several things you can't do with it.
Performing Teams Meetings is one of them, and some online shops rely on chromium engine (chromium itself, chrome, edge). With other browsers like Firefox some of the features may not work properly.

BR, Markus
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On Wed, 15 Jul 2026 08:53:42 -0300 Gilberto F da Silva wrote:

Markus Robert Kessler wrote:

Hi all,

it seems to be a matter of fact that Chromium will not be added to the
repo.

So, I told ChatGPT to perform an online research, which RPM-based
distros natively support Chromium including providing patches.

It says something like:

Fedora rLa Yes Officially provided, can be installed via dnf

install

chromium

openSUSE Leap rLa Yes Chromium contained in official repo

openSUSE Tumbleweed rLa Yes Mostly newest versions


Has anyone tried to get Chromium - from foreign distro - running on a
MGA 10 - x64 box?

There is a version of Chromium available as a flatpak; https://flathub.org/pt-BR/apps/org.chromium.Chromium I think it is the fastest and safest way to have Chromium running on Mageia.

How did you install this? - 'urpmi flatpak' as root for system wide usage,
or user-side install?

Well, even in MGA 9, where Chromium is available, I get bullied all time
when opening my online banking, because there Chromium is more than one
year old, and all recent updates not available in MGA.

Best regards,

Markus
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Markus Robert Kessler wrote:

I get bullied all time when opening my online banking,

Banking and other would-be /secure/ places are a drag; they seem to be
strong (as in overbearing) on the idea of security, and weak on
flexibility about how to achieve it.

'Their' way is NOT the ONLY way.
--
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Markus Robert Kessler wrote:

On Wed, 15 Jul 2026 08:53:42 -0300 Gilberto F da Silva wrote:

Markus Robert Kessler wrote:

Hi all,

it seems to be a matter of fact that Chromium will not be added
to the repo.

So, I told ChatGPT to perform an online research, which
RPM-based distros natively support Chromium including providing
patches.

It says something like:

Fedora rLa Yes Officially provided, can be installed via dnf

install

chromium

openSUSE Leap rLa Yes Chromium contained in official repo

openSUSE Tumbleweed rLa Yes Mostly newest versions


Has anyone tried to get Chromium - from foreign distro -
running on a MGA 10 - x64 box?

There is a version of Chromium available as a flatpak;
https://flathub.org/pt-BR/apps/org.chromium.Chromium I think it
is the fastest and safest way to have Chromium running on
Mageia.

How did you install this? - 'urpmi flatpak' as root for system wide
usage, or user-side install?

Well, even in MGA 9, where Chromium is available, I get bullied all
time when opening my online banking, because there Chromium is more
than one year old, and all recent updates not available in MGA.

Go to https://flathub.org/pt-BR/apps/org.chromium.Chromium there it
will tell you to
install with flatpak install flathub org.chromium.Chromium Obviously
you must have
flatpak already installed on your machine.

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On Wed, 15 Jul 2026 10:41:32 -0400 TJ wrote:

On 2026-07-15 07:08, Markus Robert Kessler wrote:

Hi all,

it seems to be a matter of fact that Chromium will not be added to the
repo.

So, I told ChatGPT to perform an online research, which RPM-based
distros natively support Chromium including providing patches.

It says something like:

Fedora rLa Yes Officially provided, can be installed via dnf

install

chromium

openSUSE Leap rLa Yes Chromium contained in official repo

openSUSE Tumbleweed rLa Yes Mostly newest versions


Has anyone tried to get Chromium - from foreign distro - running on a
MGA 10 - x64 box?

Best regards,

Markus

Running mga10 Plasma here. I installed Chromium from Flathub using
Discover. It's been working great so far.

I usually avoid Flatpaks unless there's no viable alternative, as they
will use more disk space than a distro's own packages. This is because
they usually each come with their own libraries, rather than the ones
from the system, making for unnecessary duplication.

TJ

Hi,

what I don't understand, ist that Google can provide a version of Chrome (non-OSS, not Chromium), and this one is portable between Linux-platforms.

So, why can't this be done for Chromium as well?

Best regards,

Markus
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On Mon, 20 Jul 2026 07:06:45 -0000 (UTC), Markus Robert Kessler wrote:

On Wed, 15 Jul 2026 10:41:32 -0400 TJ wrote:

On 2026-07-15 07:08, Markus Robert Kessler wrote:

Hi all,

it seems to be a matter of fact that Chromium will not be added to the
repo.

So, I told ChatGPT to perform an online research, which RPM-based
distros natively support Chromium including providing patches.

It says something like:

Fedora rLa Yes Officially provided, can be installed via dnf

install

chromium

openSUSE Leap rLa Yes Chromium contained in official repo

openSUSE Tumbleweed rLa Yes Mostly newest versions


Has anyone tried to get Chromium - from foreign distro - running on a
MGA 10 - x64 box?

Best regards,

Markus

Running mga10 Plasma here. I installed Chromium from Flathub using
Discover. It's been working great so far.

I usually avoid Flatpaks unless there's no viable alternative, as they
will use more disk space than a distro's own packages. This is because
they usually each come with their own libraries, rather than the ones
from the system, making for unnecessary duplication.

TJ

Hi,

what I don't understand, ist that Google can provide a version of Chrome (non-OSS, not Chromium), and this one is portable between Linux-platforms.

So, why can't this be done for Chromium as well?

Best regards,

Markus

The problem is copyrights

Google owns the copyrights at issue, and can do whatever it wants.

Others must abide by Google restrictions.

Cheers!

jim b.
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