chromium: replace snap install by apt install

You should be able to do that for your systems without much effort:

sudo snap remove chromium
sudo apt install chromium

Oops, sorry, has to be chromium-browser of course for the apt-based package

sudo snap remove chromium
sudo apt install chromium-browser

"sudo apt install chromium"
does install the snap-based version...

mike@workstation:~$ apt info chromium-browser
Package: chromium-browser
Version: 80.0.3987.163-0ubuntu1
Priority: optional
Section: universe/web
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <email address hidden>
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 164 kB
Provides: www-browser
Pre-Depends: debconf, snapd
Depends: debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0
Homepage: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/
Download-Size: 48,3 kB
APT-Manual-Installed: yes
APT-Sources: http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/universe amd64 Packages
Description: Transitional package - chromium-browser -> chromium snap
 Dies ist ein Übergangspaket. Es kann gefahrlos entfernt werden.
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 chromium-browser is now replaced by the chromium snap.

Sorry again, you are right. I was still looking at bionic.

thank you for helping :-)

but this question is for the devs... which decided "chromium-browser is now replaced by the chromium snap"...

devs, please think about this decision again!

Developers are looking into these questions only rarely. They usually work with bug reports.

Possible further reading:
https://snapcraft.io/blog/chromium-in-ubuntu-deb-to-snap-transition
https://askubuntu.com/a/1206502
or a PPA that might be interesting
https://launchpad.net/~saiarcot895/+archive/ubuntu/chromium-beta

The snap version entirely broke my workflow by disabling sharing over /tmp. The system themes are not used too and chromium looks odd. So sad.

There is a discussion about the problem of refused access to /tmp in https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/sharing-files-via-tmp/1613

yes, working on that since three years.

Hello! I just noticed that Chromium stopped working in our environment. We are a University (University of Helsinki) with thousands of Linux installations. It is not possible for us to replace are our automounted network home directories with local mounts. Also, reporting this to snapcraft.io isn't useful (these bugs have been open for years).

Please, just provide a .deb package until snapcraft fixes these bugs.

I Fixed this by installing chromium deb package from linux mint repostiories.