Microsoft today announced the availability of the Microsoft Edge Preview 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 OpenSource distributions, you can download the Microsoft Edge browser today. Starting next week, Microsoft will release the regular Dave Channel creation along with other support sites.
The easiest way is to download and install a .deb or .rpm package directly Microsoft Edge site.
You can also download and install Microsoft Edge Microsoft’s Linux software repository By following these steps:
Installing on Debian / Ubuntu
To install Microsoft Edge, you must first set up the Microsoft repository on your device by executing these commands in the 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
When done, install Microsoft Edge Dev:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install microsoft-edge-dev
Once Microsoft Edge is installed, it can be updated manually by running sudo apt update
, Then sudo apt upgrade
(To update all packages), or sudo apt install microsoft-edge-dev
(Update only Microsoft Edge Dev.)
To uninstall Microsoft Edge, run the following commands on the terminal:
sudo apt remove microsoft-edge-dev
sudo rm -i /etc/apt/sources.list.d/microsoft-edge-dev.list
Establishes in Fedora
First, set up Microsoft’s 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: sudo dnf install microsoft-edge-dev
To uninstall, run: sudo dnf remove microsoft-edge-dev
Installing on OpenSUSE
First, set up Microsoft’s 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: sudo zypper remove microsoft-edge-dev
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