Chromium on Kali

Hey community,
today I wanted to install chromium on my Raspberry Pi 3 B but it doesnt start up.
The chromiums version ist 53.0.2785.143.

How did I install Chromium:
1. I got the .deb package from launchpad.net
2. Didnt work out at first, needed to install dependencies first
3. Installed dependencies and chromium


Now Chromium does not start. No error message, nothing to reference to :/

Usefull information:

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Hardware: Raspberry Pi 3B
OS: Kali GNU/Linux Rolling
Installed Chromium: 53.0.2785.143 armhf

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I hope my information is enough for you to help me getting Chrome working.


Thx guys :)

Chrome won't run as root! You must run it as another user.

Execute these only once:
useradd -m kali
xhost +

Then run the browser with:
sudo -u kali chromium

Thx for your answer scorpius.

I got new information!

Without scorpius commands I will get this error message (starting chromium in terminal)

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[1:1:1212/235651:FATAL:setuid_sandbox_client.cc(126)] Check failed: IsFileSystemAccessDenied().
#0 0x000076ecddfe base::debug::StackTrace::StackTrace()
#1 0x000076ee058e logging::LogMessage::~LogMessage()
#2 0x00007411d2ce sandbox::SetuidSandboxClient::ChrootMe()
#3 0x000075e2bc92 <unknown>
#4 0x000075baedb8 <unknown>
#5 0x000075baf2f0 <unknown>
#6 0x000075badec6 content::ContentMain()
#7 0x000054dc1948 ChromeMain
#8 0x000072b2a4aa __libc_start_main

Received signal 6
#0 0x000076ecddfe base::debug::StackTrace::StackTrace()
#1 0x000076ece0e8 <unknown>
#2 0x000072b38fe0 <unknown>
#3 0x000072b2a6f6 <unknown>
[end of stack trace]
[889:889:1212/235651:FATAL:zygote_host_impl_linux.cc(196)] Check failed: ReceiveFixedMessage(fds[0], kZygoteHelloMessage, sizeof(kZygoteHelloMessage), &real_pid).
#0 0x000076e05dfe base::debug::StackTrace::StackTrace()
#1 0x000076e1858e logging::LogMessage::~LogMessage()
#2 0x000075d6086a content::ZygoteHostImpl::LaunchZygote()
#3 0x000075d5fe14 content::ZygoteCommunication::Init()
#4 0x000075d601a4 content::CreateZygote()
#5 0x000075b42cca content::BrowserMainLoop::EarlyInitialization()
#6 0x000075b45152 <unknown>
#7 0x000075b3fb08 content::BrowserMain()
#8 0x000075ae72f0 <unknown>
#9 0x000075ae5ec6 content::ContentMain()
#10 0x000054cf4948 ChromeMain
#11 0x000072a624aa __libc_start_main

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If I try scorpius commands following error message is being displayed

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root@kali:~# sudo -u kali chromium-browser
Segmentation fault
root@kali:~# [995:995:1213/000141:ERROR:sandbox_linux.cc(343)] InitializeSandbox() called with multiple threads in process gpu-process.

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That's strange. I just ran chromium 53.0.2785.14 perfectly in a virtual machine. The Segmentation fault must mean that something else is wrong.

Perhaps you can try:
apt purge chromium
then
apt install chromium

chromium works with command like this:
chromium--no-sandbox

Yep, that also works. Here's the full command I used.

chromium --no-sandbox --user-data-dir=~/.config/chromium