Install and update Chromium for Linux

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How-to guide
Published Sep 10, 2025

If the web UI–guided installation fails or you prefer to prepare the host for the Synthetic engine yourself, you can install Chromium and other dependencies manually or from a custom repository.

Install Chromium and dependencies manually from S3

This section is not relevant for browserless locations.

Amazon Linux 2023, Ubuntu 24, and Oracle Linux 9

Manual installation isn't supported for Amazon Linux 2023, Ubuntu 24, or Oracle Linux 9. For those operating systems, follow the steps in the Install a Synthetic-enabled ActiveGate section to ensure compatibility. Amazon Linux 2023, Ubuntu 24, and Oracle Linux 9 use Chrome for Testing instead of Chromium. The browser is updated by the Synthetic installer. Chrome for Testing doesn't require a package manager, however the dependencies required by the browser are managed by a package manager.

Ensure that you can connect to https://synthetic-packages.s3.amazonaws.com to access Chromium and dependencies. For security reasons, public access to the S3 bucket is enabled only for specific files; trying anything else will result in a 403 error.

Also see Install Chromium from a custom repository below.

See how to update Chromium manually. We strongly recommend that you keep your Linux-based Synthetic-enabled ActiveGates and Chromium versions updated—Dynatrace supports Chromium versions that are no more than two versions behind the latest Dynatrace-supported version for a specific ActiveGate release.

Ubuntu Server

Install Synthetic engine dependencies:

Synthetic engine dependencies:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -y install xvfb x11-xkb-utils xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi xfonts-scalable libnss3-tools auditd

Chromium dependencies:

sudo apt-get -y install fonts-dejavu-core

sudo snap install gnome-3-38-2004 gtk-common-themes

Download and install Chromium.

Download the snap (Ubuntu 20.04 and 22.04) package archive. This is a safe and verified archive hosted by Dynatrace.

Ubuntu 20.04 and 22.04

curl --output chromium.tgz https://synthetic-packages.s3.amazonaws.com/Chromium/snap/chromium-138.0.7204.100-3199.tgz

Ubuntu 20.04 and 22.04

curl --output chromium.tgz https://synthetic-packages.s3.amazonaws.com/Chromium/snap/chromium-137.0.7151.103-3169.tgz

Ubuntu 20.04 and 22.04

curl --output chromium.tgz https://synthetic-packages.s3.amazonaws.com/Chromium/snap/chromium-136.0.7103.59-3121.tgz

Ubuntu 20.04 and 22.04

curl --output chromium.tgz https://synthetic-packages.s3.amazonaws.com/Chromium/snap/chromium-135.0.7049.95-3110.tgz

Ubuntu 20.04 and 22.04

curl --output chromium.tgz https://synthetic-packages.s3.amazonaws.com/Chromium/snap/chromium-134.0.6998.35-3060.tgz

Ubuntu 20.04 and 22.04

curl --output chromium.tgz https://synthetic-packages.s3.amazonaws.com/Chromium/snap/chromium-132.0.6834.159-3036.tgz

Ubuntu 20.04 and 22.04

curl --output chromium.tgz https://synthetic-packages.s3.amazonaws.com/Chromium/snap/chromium-131.0.6778.85-3002.tgz

Ubuntu 20.04 and 22.04

curl --output chromium.tgz https://synthetic-packages.s3.amazonaws.com/Chromium/snap/chromium-130.0.6723.69-2985.tgz

Ubuntu 20.04 and 22.04

curl --output chromium.tgz https://synthetic-packages.s3.amazonaws.com/Chromium/snap/chromium-129.0.6668.89-2965.tgz

Ubuntu 20.04 and 22.04

curl --output chromium.tgz https://synthetic-packages.s3.amazonaws.com/Chromium/snap/chromium-128.0.6613.113-2940.tgz

Ubuntu 20.04 and 22.04

curl --output chromium.tgz https://synthetic-packages.s3.amazonaws.com/Chromium/snap/chromium-128.0.6613.113-2940.tgz

Ubuntu 20.04 and 22.04

curl --output chromium.tgz https://synthetic-packages.s3.amazonaws.com/Chromium/snap/chromium-126.0.6478.126-2897.tgz

Ubuntu 20.04 and 22.04

curl --output chromium.tgz https://synthetic-packages.s3.amazonaws.com/Chromium/snap/chromium-125.0.6422.60-2859.tgz

Ubuntu 20.04 and 22.04

curl --output chromium.tgz https://synthetic-packages.s3.amazonaws.com/Chromium/snap/chromium-125.0.6422.60-2859.tgz

You can verify the authenticity of the packages using the signature files stored together with the package archives.

Extract the installation packages. Go to the directory where you saved the archive and run the following command:
```
mkdir /tmp/chromium ; tar xzf chromium.tgz -C /tmp/chromium
```
This creates a /tmp/chromium directory and extracts the packages into it.
Install the extracted packages.
sudo chown -R root:root /tmp/snap-private-tmp
sudo snap ack /tmp/chromium/chromium.assert
sudo snap install --devmode /tmp/chromium/chromium.snap
Substitute dtuserag with the names of the ActiveGate service user and group if they differ from the default values.
sudo chown -R dtuserag:dtuserag /tmp/snap-private-tmp
This installs all the packages extracted to the /tmp/chromium/ directory. You can delete the /tmp/chromium/ directory and the downloaded chromium.tgz archive after successful Chromium installation.

After you satisfy the dependencies, run the ActiveGate installer with root rights with the --enable-synthetic parameter set to manual. For example:
```
/bin/bash ./Dynatrace-ActiveGate-Linux.sh --enable-synthetic=manual
```

Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Oracle Linux, and Rocky Linux

Chromium development for Red Hat/CentOS 7 and Amazon Linux 2 stopped at version 126.
- Since Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 reached End of Maintenance support on June 30, 2024, all of its packages have been archived. This means that it may not be possible to find the required dependencies for update. For more details, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 status
Chromium installation when a proxy is required for internet access.
- If you need to download and install Chromium, and your system requires a proxy for internet access, you should configure curlto use the correct proxy. Specify your proxy and port details by running the commands as in this example:
```
vi /root/.curlrc
proxy=http://proxy.example.com:8080
```

Set up repositories and install dependencies.

Deprecated operating system: ActiveGate version 1.305 is the last Synthetic-enabled ActiveGate to support Red Hat 7.

sudo subscription-manager register --auto-attach

Enable the Red Hat Extras and Optional repositories as well as EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux ).

sudo subscription-manager repos --enable rhel-7-server-extras-rpms
sudo subscription-manager repos --enable rhel-7-server-optional-rpms
sudo rpm -Uvh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm