You can now download Microsoft Edge preview builds for Linux
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Microsoft today announced the availability of Microsoft Edge preview builds for Linux. With this release, Microsoft Edge is now available for all major desktop and mobile platforms. If you are running Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, and openSUSE distributions, you can download Microsoft Edge browser today. From next week, Microsoft will release typical Dev Channel build alongside other supported platforms.
Here’s how you can download Microsoft Edge for Linux:
The simplest way it to download and install a .deb or .rpm package directly from theย Microsoft Edge site.
You can also download and install Microsoft Edge fromย Microsoftโs Linux Software Repository by following the below steps:
Installing on Debian/Ubuntu
To install Microsoft Edge, youโll first need to set up Microsoftโs repository on your device by running these commands in Terminal:
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
Once this is done, install Microsoft Edge Dev:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install microsoft-edge-devOnce Microsoft Edge is installed, you can update manually by runningย
sudo apt update
, thenยsudo apt upgrade
ย (to update all packages), orยsudo apt install microsoft-edge-dev
ย (to update Microsoft Edge Dev only.)To uninstall Microsoft Edge, run the following commands in Terminal:
sudo apt remove microsoft-edge-dev
sudo rm -i /etc/apt/sources.list.d/microsoft-edge-dev.listInstalling on Fedora
First, set up Microsoftโs repository:
sudo rpm --import https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc
sudo dnf config-manager --add-repo https://packages.microsoft.com/yumrepos/edge
sudo mv /etc/yum.repos.d/packages.microsoft.com_yumrepos_edge.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/microsoft-edge-dev.repo
Next, install Microsoft Edge:ย
sudo dnf install microsoft-edge-dev
To uninstall, run:ย
sudo dnf remove microsoft-edge-dev
Installing on openSUSE
First, set up Microsoftโs repository:
sudo rpm --import https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc
sudo zypper ar https://packages.microsoft.com/yumrepos/edge microsoft-edge-dev
Next, install Microsoft Edge:
sudo zypper refresh
sudo zypper install microsoft-edge-dev
To uninstall, run:ย
sudo zypper remove microsoft-edge-dev
Source: Microsoft
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