How to install specifics versions of Chromium? (Avoid installing +98v for customer hosted instances)

Lately, we’ve been seeing issues with rendering and some other functionalities related to Chromium, but only for customer-hosted instances.

In our official documentation, we explain how to install Chromium as it should be. However, sometimes customers should use legacy versions of chromium while we offer the ultimate solution. Here, I’ll explain how you can download and install any legacy version of Chromium in your Looker instance. Keep in mind that this only replaces the Chromium:

    apt-get update && apt-get install -y chromium-browser

instruction in our official documentation. You still need to follow our official documentation for the complete installation. 

  1. Make sure you followed our documentation until this instruction.
  1. Check your chromium version (In case you have a previous version)
echo $(google-chrome --version | awk '{print $3}')
  1.  In order to install a specific chromium version we will use the following command
wget --no-verbose -O /tmp/chrome.deb https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/pool/main/g/google-chrome-stable/google-chrome-stable_<<CHROMIUMVERSION>>_amd64.deb \ && sudo apt install -y /tmp/chrome.deb \ && sudo rm /tmp/chrome.deb
  1. Replace <<CHROMIUMVERSION with any version listed here.  (Avoid installing +98v for customer hosted instances) 
  1. In this example I’ll use the “97.0.4692.99-1” version. (Keep in mind the -1)
wget --no-verbose -O /tmp/chrome.deb https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/pool/main/g/google-chrome-stable/google-chrome-stable_97.0.4692.99-1_amd64.deb \ && sudo apt install -y /tmp/chrome.deb \ && sudo rm /tmp/chrome.deb
  1. Move to the /tmp/ directory where we downloaded the chrome.deb file
cd /tmp/
  1. Install the Debian package.
sudo dpkg -i chrome.deb
  1. Confirm your chromium version again
echo $(google-chrome --version | awk '{print $3}')
  1. Once you confirmed the new version of chromium you can continue with the following instructions in our official documentation.

Remember you can reach out Looker Support for further troubleshooting. You may find another resources from my colleagues and community users related to this topic:

  1. https://community.looker.com/dashboards-looks-7/avoid-installing-chromium-99-on-customer-hosted-look...
  2. https://community.looker.com/general-looker-administration-35/customer-hosted-instances-rendering-is...
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Is there a documentation for this but with AWS Linux?

The link for older versions is no longer working.  Is there an alternative way to download a pre 99 version?  

https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/pool/main/g/google-chrome-stable/google-chrome-stable_97.0.4692.99-1_amd64.deb
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