How to install Chromium web browser on Ubuntu

Chromium is a free and open source web browser which is what the Google Chrome is based on. They are very similar except that Chromium doesn't have the proprietary bits that are added to Google Chrome.

Chromium browser could be installed on Ubuntu by installing chromium-browser package using apt at the terminal.

Steps to install Chromium on Ubuntu:

1. Open terminal from the application launcher or via the <ctrl> + <alt> + <t> keyboard shortcut.
2. Update apt's package list from the repository.

   $ sudo apt update
   [sudo] password for user:
   Hit:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu disco-security InRelease
   Hit:2 http://my.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu disco InRelease
   Hit:3 http://my.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu disco-updates InRelease
   Hit:4 http://my.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu disco-backports InRelease
   Reading package lists... Done
   Building dependency tree
   Reading state information... Done
   6 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.

3. Install chromium-browser package via apt.

   $ sudo apt install --assume-yes chromium-browser
   Suggested packages:
     webaccounts-chromium-extension unity-chromium-extension adobe-flashplugin
   The following NEW packages will be installed:
     chromium-browser chromium-browser-l10n
   0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 6 not upgraded.
   Need to get 62.2 MB of archives.
   After this operation, 231 MB of additional disk space will be used.
   ##### snipped

4. Run chromium-browser from the terminal or from the application launcher.

   $ chromium-browser