Chromium Install

By default, ArchiveBox looks for any existing installed version of Chrome/Chromium and uses it if found. You can optionally install a specific version and set the environment variable CHROME_BINARY to force ArchiveBox to use that one, e.g.:

• CHROME_BINARY=google-chrome-beta
• CHROME_BINARY=/usr/bin/chromium-browser
• CHROME_BINARY='/Applications/Chromium.app/Contents/MacOS/Chromium'

If you don’t already have Chrome installed, I recommend installing Chromium instead of Google Chrome, as it’s the open-source fork of Chrome that doesn’t send as much tracking data to Google.

Check for existing Chrome/Chromium install:

google-chrome --version | chromium-browser --version
Google Chrome 73.0.3683.75 beta     # should be >v59

Installing Chromium

macOS

If you already have /Applications/Chromium.app, you don’t need to run this.

brew cask install chromium-browser

Ubuntu/Debian

If you already have chromium-browser >= v59 installed (run chromium-browser --version, you don’t need to run this.

apt update
apt install chromium-browser

Installing Google Chrome

macOS

If you already have /Applications/Google Chrome.app, you don’t need to run this.

brew cask install google-chrome

Ubuntu/Debian

If you already have google-chrome >= v59 installed (run google-chrome --version, you don’t need to run this.

wget -q -O - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | sudo apt-key add -
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list'
apt update
apt install google-chrome-beta

Troubleshooting

If you encounter problems setting up Google Chrome or Chromium, see the Troubleshooting page.