Install Microsoft Edge Browser on Ubuntu Linux

Microsoft Edge is a cross-platform web browser developed by Microsoft. It was first released for Windows 10 and Xbox One in 2015, then for Android and iOS in 2017, for macOS in 2019, and as a preview for Linux in October 2020. Edge includes integration with Cortana and has extensions hosted on the Microsoft Store. In this article, we shall discuss how to install Microsoft Edge Browser on Ubuntu Linux. Please see How to configure a new tab page URL in Microsoft Edge, and how to “Prevent Microsoft Edge from sending your Search data to Microsoft“.

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What Is the New Edge Browser?

The new Microsoft Edge is based on the Chromium open-source project. Chromium forms the basis of Google Chrome, so the new Edge feels very similar to Google Chrome. It includes features found in Chrome, supports Chrome browser extensions, and has the same rendering engine as Google Chrome.

To get started, please download the suitable package {.deb/.rpm} for Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, or openSUSE. It will automatically detect your device type. Since I will be installing Microsoft Edge on Ubuntu.

I will select to download for “Linux (.deb) as shown below. These steps are relatively very easy to follow.

Next, double-click on the downloaded file to install it as shown above. Microsoft will add its repository to the sources.list so that you get updates to Microsoft Edge through system updater.

Click on install as shown below

Now that you have installed Microsoft Edge, you can launch Edge and start using it. You can also place Microsoft Edge on the Linux dock for easy accessibility if you want.

As you can see below, Microsoft Edge is being launched and running.

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Install Microsoft Edge via the Command-line

You will need to add the official PPA to install Microsoft Edge on Linux. Below are the commands to add the PPA and install Edge.

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

Now that we have added the the necessary PPA. we will now proceed with the installation of Microsoft Edge using these commands below.

sudo apt update
sudo apt install microsoft-edge-dev

Subsequently, if you wish to remove Microsoft Edge from your device, you can also do this from the Ubuntu Software Center.

Search for Microsoft Edge and click on Remove

I hope you found this blog post on how to install Microsoft Edge Browser on Ubuntu Linux helpful. If you have any questions, please let me know in the comment session.