Yandex browser

 

Yandex browser is a Chromium-based Internet browser developed by Russian search engine provider, Yandex, available for Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, Android and iOS.

Yandex browser features:

• Sync bookmarks, extensions, browser data across your devices.
• Modern and clean user interface
• Uses Blink engine for fast browsing experience
• Compatible with Chrome Web store and Opera add-ons
• Automatically enables Opera Turbo mode for faster page loading on slow Internet connection
• Built-in pepper flash player
• Uses DNSCrypt technology to prevent DNS spoofing or cache poisoning attacks

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Enable sudo for Standard User Account on Debian

Some commands in this tutorial are prefixed with sudo. If your user account isn’t in the sudoer list, you can use the following command to switch to root user, assuming you know the root password.

su -

If you want to add the standard user account into sudoer  list, run the following command as root. Replace username with your actual username.

adduser username sudo

Then install sudo utility.

apt install sudo

Log out and log back in for the change to take effect. From now on, the standard user can use sudo to manage the system.

Install Yandex Browser on Debian 8 Jessie, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Linux Mint 18

To get the latest updates, it’s recommended to install Yandex browser from its official APT repository. First create a source list file for Yandex browser

sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list.d/yandex-browser.list

Add the following line to the file.

deb [arch=amd64] http://repo.yandex.ru/yandex-browser/deb beta main

Press CTRL+O, then press Enter to save the file, CTRL+X to exit out of the file. The we also need to download and import the GPG key so that packages downloaded from this repository can be authenticated.

wget https://repo.yandex.ru/yandex-browser/YANDEX-BROWSER-KEY.GPG

sudo apt-key add YANDEX-BROWSER-KEY.GPG

After that, update local package index and install Yandex browser.

sudo apt update

sudo apt install yandex-browser-beta

Once installed, you can start it from Ubuntu Unity Dash or your favorite application menu.

or from the command line.

yandex-browser

Install Yandex Browser on Fedora, OpenSUSE

Go to Yandex browser download page to download the RPM package. Or you can use wget utility to download it in terminal.

wget https://cache-ams06.cdn.yandex.net/download.cdn.yandex.net/browser/yandex/ru/beta/Yandex.rpm

Once downloaded, go to the download folder and execute the following command to install it.

Fedora: sudo dnf install Yandex.rpm

OpenSUSE: sudo zypper in Yandex.rpm

Install Yandex Browser on Arch Linux, Manjaro, Apricity OS, Antergos

yaourt yandex