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Install Google Chrome PDF Viewer Plugin on Chromium

What is Chromium?
Chromium is an open-source browser project that aims to build a safer, faster, and more stable way for all Internet users to experience the web. Chromium serves as a base for Google Chrome, which is Chromium rebranded (name and logo) with very few additions such as usage tracking and an auto-updater system.

Note:
1. This is optional step and you will need 200-250 Mb temporary disk space.
2. If you are behind a proxy, you may need to set proxy authentication. Click here to set proxy authentication.

Get hughesjr Helper Script

cd /tmp
wget https://raw.github.com/hughesjr/chromium_el_builder/master/chrome_libpdf_copy.sh

Make chrome_libpdf_copy.sh Executable

chmod +x chrome_libpdf_copy.sh

Install Google Chrome PDF Viewer Plugin on Chromium

./chrome_libpdf_copy.sh

This will take a while, it downloads Google Chrome and extracts Google Chrome PDF Viewer plugin to /opt/chromium.