Google Chrome Arrives on ARM64 Linux, Widevine DRM Included
You can now install an official Google Chrome build on Arm64 Linux devices, including the Raspberry Pi. Back in March, Google promised Chrome for Arm64 Linux in “Q2 2026” so users on SBCs, AI desktops and the growing-fleet of Snapdragon laptops out there, could use the flagship browser and benefit from the handful of extras it offers over a vanilla Chromium build. The search giant hasn’t said a whole lot about that effort since then, but Arm64 builds of Chrome were recently added to Google’s official Linux repos for Debian and RPM-based Linux distributions – thanks for the tip Steven H – and they do work.
- ▪You can now install an official Google Chrome build on Arm64 Linux devices, including the Raspberry Pi.
- ▪Back in March, Google promised Chrome for Arm64 Linux in “Q2 2026” so users on SBCs, AI desktops and the growing-fleet of Snapdragon laptops out there, could use the flagship browser and benefit from the handful of extras it offers over a v
- ▪The search giant hasn’t said a whole lot about that effort since then, but Arm64 builds of Chrome were recently added to Google’s official Linux repos for Debian and RPM-based Linux distributions – thanks for the tip Steven H – and they do
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You can now install an official Google Chrome build on Arm64 Linux devices, including the Raspberry Pi. Back in March, Google promised Chrome for Arm64 Linux in “Q2 2026” so users on SBCs, AI desktops and the growing-fleet of Snapdragon laptops out there, could use the flagship browser and benefit from the handful of extras it offers over a vanilla Chromium build. The search giant hasn’t said a whole lot about that effort since then, but Arm64 builds of Chrome were recently added to Google’s official Linux repos for Debian and RPM-based Linux distributions – thanks for the tip Steven H – and they do work. When I went to the official Chrome download page on my Raspberry Pi 5 running Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, it gave me an AMD64 installer. That won’t work.
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