Default Installation Path for Chromium Web Browser in Ubuntu 16.04?

Question

I am a newbie both to Ubuntu and Linux and the Chromium web browser. Try as I might, I have been unsuccessful in finding the answer to this simple question: What is the default installation path for the Chromium web browser in Ubuntu 16.04?

Thanks in advance for answering this relatively simple question!

Solution 1

I know this is an old thread, but I found it looking for Chromium in 18.10.

Please note that Chromium may have been installed utilizing Snap, in which case it is likely in /snap/chromium/current/bin/chromium.desktop

I am new to snap, so it took me a little time to realize this.

Solution 2

It's not clear what you mean by installation path but the following dpkg command might help:

dpkg -L chromium-browser

as it will show all the files associated with the installed package.

Solution 3

If you can't find directory of your program just use this in console (like example):

whereis chromium

and then you see like this:

chromium: /snap/bin/chromium /snap/bin/chromium.chromedriver

Solution 4

This is what worked for me:

which chromium

My default installation is

/snap/bin/chromium

This is for Ubuntu 20.04

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Comments

[Csabi Vidó]

In other words there is no single path, the programs resources are stored in different places following en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard :)

[Admin]

Didn't work for me after sudo apt-get install chromium-browser. It seems to have been installed somewhere that is not on my $PATH

[Admin]

I keep forgetting, on zsh I need to execute rehash for the index of $PATH contents to be refreshed.

[Admin]

@Scott Shipp: console show: '/usr/bin/chromium-browser' but when I use 'cd /usr/bin/chromium-browser' it display '-bash: cd: /usr/bin/chromium-browser: Not a directory'

[Admin]

if Chromium was installed with Snap, it works with which chromium