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by simosx 2210 days ago
The Mint maintainer went out of his way to react in bad faith.

The chromium transition was announced in October 2019, https://snapcraft.io/blog/chromium-in-ubuntu-deb-to-snap-tra...

Ubuntu was not able to maintain chromium as a deb package, and chromium is not the default browser in Ubuntu. Therefore, it has been packaged as a snap package. Since there is no longer an apt package, what should happen when you "sudo apt install chromium-browser"? The usable decision was to install the snap package of Chromium instead, https://snapcraft.io/blog/chromium-in-ubuntu-deb-to-snap-tra...

The snap package of Chromium has been in testing for two years already. The snap package page is https://snapcraft.io/chromium You can view the installation log, with the list of operating systems that have installed it.