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Bug in documentation: Installation of chromium on Ubuntu

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Description

The manual states:

# Debian/Ubuntu
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y chromium chromium-common

For Ubuntu as of 20.04 chromium-browser and chromium-common are not available as apt packages anymore.
They can either be installed via snap or via apt-get chromium (as a whole).

sudo snap install chromium
chromium or chromium --headless --disable-gpu --no-sandbox

or

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y chromium

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