📕Chromium/Chrome Setup

This setup is only required for the users who followed the SELF-HOST method for deploying Cat Userbot.

This is not required for Docker or Docker-Compose (recommended method) methods.

➦ Why should you do this setup?

Chromium / Chrome binary is a mandatory requirement for many awesome plugins and commands like AI tools, Screenshot, Rayso, Rayso based logs, Carbon, etc.

Here we will show how to setup this for Debian, Ubuntu, Arch, Fedora and their derivatives.

Chromium

For Debian

sudo apt install chromium

For Ubuntu

sudo apt install chromium-browser

For Arch

sudo pacman -S chromium

For Fedora

sudo dnf install chromium

Go to catuserbot directory and open the config.py

nano config.py

Add this one var in your config

CHROME_BIN = "/usr/bin/chromium"

Now to save use Ctrl+O and press Enter , then use Ctrl+X to exit.

Chrome

For Debian and Ubuntu

sudo wget -q -O - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | sudo apt-key add - && \
  echo "deb http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google.list && \
  sudo apt-get update -y && \
  sudo apt-get install -y google-chrome-stable xvfb libxi6 libgconf-2-4 default-jdk && \
  sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/google-chrome

For Arch, you can use any AUR helper, here we

sudo yay -S google-chrome

For Fedora

sudo dnf install https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_x86_64.rpm

Go to catuserbot directory and open the config.py

nano config.py

Add this one var in your config

CHROME_BIN = "/usr/bin/google-chrome"

Now to save use Ctrl+O and press Enter , then use Ctrl+X to exit.

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