Hello everyone, I'm new here. I'm Tim. I'm just beginning with Linux - my day job involves mechanical repairs and optics but I'm not much cop at the digital development side of my industry, so here I am experimenting.

The nature of my query is this - I'm running Plasma 5.20.5 64-bit on a Raspberry Pi Model 4B which I installed from Raspberry Pi OS lite (terminal) and I wish to use Chromium to supplement Konqueror for better media playback. (My Pi doubles as a second computer for day to day use when I'm done scratching my head staring at the terminal).

I installed Chromium from the Discover software centre but it won't run. (I get the bouncy Chromium logo for a second or so then nothing)

When I type "open chromium-browser" into terminal, I'm presented with the following error:

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kf.kio.widgets: KRun(0x5564b37f90) ERROR (stat): 114   "Unknown host chromium-browser: Host not found"

Can anyone help with what's happening here and why it won't run?

Many thanks in advance.

How did you install chromium?

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dpkg -l | grep -i chrom
snap --list


Hello Daniel,

Thanks for looking at this. I installed Chromium using the KDE Discover app.

The dpkg line returns this:

ii chromium 100.0.4896.88-1~deb11u1 arm64 web browser
ii chromium-common 100.0.4896.88-1~deb11u1 arm64 web browser - common resources used by the chromium packages
ii chromium-sandbox 100.0.4896.88-1~deb11u1 arm64 web browser - setuid security sandbox for chromium
ii libchromaprint1:arm64 1.5.0-2 arm64 audio fingerprint library

The second line returns "command not found".

Tim

Update: After checking using dpkg --help I realised it was a bit like apt. Additionally, at the end of dpkg --help it suggests using apt for 'user friendly' package management. apt --help drew my attention to apt reinstall - this fixed the issue.

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction, Daniel.

All the best,

Tim