How to install Microsoft Edge on Ubuntu
Microsoft is beginning to port some of its applications to various platforms including Ubuntu. In this blog post, we will see how to install and uninstall Microsoft Edge on an Ubuntu environment.
It is good to know that Microsoft Edge is a prerequisite for many tools published by Microsoft on Ubuntu.
It is good to know that Microsoft Edge is a prerequisite for many tools published by Microsoft on Ubuntu.
Install Microsoft Edge for Linux
- Go to https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/edge?form=MA13FJ
- In this page, click on Linux (.deb)
Install Microsoft Edge with the Terminal
You want to install Microsoft Edge from the command line, follow the procedure below.
First, add the repository to your system and import the Microsoft GPG key to authenticate packages
- curl https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc | gpg --dearmor > microsoft.gpg sudo install -o root -g root -m 644 microsoft.gpg /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/
- sudo sh -c 'echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/edge stable main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/microsoft-edge-dev.list'
- sudo rm microsoft.gpg
Then run the following command to install Microsoft Edge
- sudo apt update && sudo apt install microsoft-edge-stable
Uninstall Microsoft Edge
If Microsoft Edge doesn't really work for you or is not quite as you had expected, you can remove or uninstall it from your system by running the following command:- sudo apt remove microsoft-edge-stable