How to reinstall Chromium

[Acdane]

Chromium has broken packages which I am unable to remove and am informed that I need to reinstall it. I don't remember how I installed it in the first place. It is not is 'Lite Software'  I have 32bit Dell M1210 LL3.6

[Artim]

Not in Lite Software??  That's weird.  There is another way though.  You can open a terminal and type

Code:

sudo apt-get install chromium

(enter root password when asked)

Or you can go Menu -> System -> Install/Remove/Upgrade Packages.  Enter root password, click on RELOAD, then scroll down to find Chromium, and click on it to Mark for Installation, then click Apply.

Terminal is a lot easier

[Acdane]

Hi, unfortunately that does not work. Chromium has broken packages which I can't remove them so I don't even have an option to reinstall and remove also does not work. Do you think I should download another install of chromium? If so how do I do that?

My regards
Ann

[Artim]

Oh wow... what error message are you getting?

Synaptic Package Manager (menu ->system ->Install/Remove/Upgrade) has some options in the menu to fix broken packages!  Try that, and/or find Chromium on the list, right-click it and select completely remove.  Apply.  Then re-install.

[Acdane]

Wow indeed - I can't get it to remove Here is the read out I get
E: chromium-browser: package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should  reinstall it before attempting a removal
E: python-enchant: unable to securely remove '/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pyenchant-1.6.6.egg-info/PKG-INFO': Not a directory 

Thanks for your interest RandomBoy

[TheDead]

Hi Acdane,

I did not find the exact command I mentionned in your other thread but you could try these from Terminal.
First try this : sudo apt-get -f install

If doesnt work, try the following.
But, if python is a dependency to other modules, it could break other apps... I guess.

sudo dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq chromium-browser
or even
sudo dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq --force-depends chromum-browser

then you can retry and fix installs with sudo apt-get -f install
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After that, try to reinstall Chromium from the Lite Software module.

Cheers!

TheDead (ThUxNo0b)

[Acdane]

Hi, I figured it out. I reinstalled python enchant and that fixed the problem. Thanks for your imput.

[No More Bears]

Can't find how to INSTALL Chromium.... so I am here in a post that asks how to REinstall it.

Question is: do I want it or not? I have a lot of folders on the taskbar where it's running just fine in Raspberry Pi.

So - the question is still: Do I want Chromium and HOW can I install it in Linux Lite if it's safe?

Here's the results of a terminal request:

Code:

Welcome to Linux Lite 4.2 linuxlite

Sunday 17 November 2019, 00:25:55
Memory Usage: 542/1479MB (36.65%)
Disk Usage: 20/458GB (5%)
Support - https://www.freecinema2022.gq/forums/ (Right click, Open Link)

 linuxlite  ~  sudo apt-get install chromium
[sudo] password for linuxlite:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package chromium is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
However the following packages replace it:
  chromium-bsu:i386 chromium-bsu

E: Package 'chromium' has no installation candidate

Is Chromium dead and not available any more?

[TMG1961]

you can install chromium through menu/setting/Lite Software and then select Install Software

[Moltke]

[member=9970]No More Bears[/member]  In the future open a new thread, this one is 2 years old and it's marked as solved. This might get usres confused.