Hi, I tried to install Edge using the command line instructions, and also by double clicking on a downloaded debian installer package, and both installs failed. This is using a Raspberry Pi 400 running the latest version of Raspberry Pi OS, which I believe is based on Debian. The command line install gave an error saying "Unable to locate package microsoft-edge-dev". Any ideas what the issue may be? Thanks

Kam I've seen this happen multiple times, please if you don't know about a subject and don't have anything useful to add, you don't need to comment.

I think the community that are waiting for it should send feedback to Edge developers using feedback button on Edge or form here:https://www.microsoftedgeinsider.com/en-us/supportmore feedbacks mean higher priority and they will know how many people want it

formula155 From what I can find the Microsoft Edge browser is only for Windows, MAC, and Linux on the X86 platform. There is a build for the raspberry pi but it is only for Windows 10 on ARM. Microsoft will need to build a specific version for Raspberry PI os on ARM. I cannot find where they have made this build. When I looked on the Microsoft Insider page I only found the x86 version for Linux not the ARM version. I hope this helps. Patrickw99

myusrn The process I outlined in my previous post is a form of emulation using the application QEMU, but your not using it to emulate a fully system, so you are able to get much better performance than emulating a full operating system. I first learned of this process when I was trying to use "wine" to play some old windows games like "starcraft" and "diablo" I would say the performance I got out of it might have been somewhere around that of Pentium II 300MHz, however, while attempting the same thing emulating a full operating system like Windows 95, the performance I got probably equated to that of an x486 66MHz CPU. In regards to your question #2, because edge doesn't have a lot of overhead you get much better performance than you would expect from emulation. Now I am unsure, but you may run into an issue which can be resolved by changing memory allocation in the linux kernel and then recompiling it, I doubt you will run into that though, however, if you seem to hit a snag during your playtime with this and you get something like "DBUS error" then you need to change the memory allocation in the linux kernal to a 3G/1G split, the raspberry pi linux kernel has a default of 2G/2G. This is user vs system memory allocation. Feel free to ask any additional questions here I am happy to answer. q1. Does the process you outline work for raspberry pi os 64bit beta installs or only the default 32bit installs? It should work on both the 64bit and 32bit, you might even get better performance with the 64bit, however, because it is beta, it may be buggy. I have only done it with 32bit. q2. Is the resulting edge install performance using the method you describe significantly impacted? I haven't noticed any significant performance impact besides the initial browser launch time. q3. Is installing chrome on raspberry pi os 64bit beta release also require a custom process?Before I used Edge with linux at all, I ended up using the same process I mentioned in my earlier post to install Google Chrome for my browser once again the AMD64 version of it. Hopefully, this gets you started....

formula155 It was a .deb file, right?

Edge installation on Debian linux (Raspberry Pi OS) on Raspberry Pi 400 fails

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dprabha
Copper Contributor
Nov 03, 2024
Most of them have already Answered : Raspberry PI used ARM64 Architecture and It doesn't support current stable Edge Browser (AMD64 Architecture). Even in 2024 the ARM64 version of Edge is not available to install.

Note: Earlier I got chance to install Edge on Ubuntu on my laptop with Intel chipset
patrickw99
Copper Contributor
Apr 19, 2021
formula155 From what I can find the Microsoft Edge browser is only for Windows, MAC, and Linux on the X86 platform. There is a build for the raspberry pi but it is only for Windows 10 on ARM. Microsoft will need to build a specific version for Raspberry PI os on ARM. I cannot find where they have made this build.

When I looked on the Microsoft Insider page I only found the x86 version for Linux not the ARM version. I hope this helps.

Patrickw99
- J_jones85
  Copper Contributor
  Aug 13, 2021
  From what I can tell it looks like there isn't a version specific to Linux ARM architecture. However there is still a way you can install the version that is available on the raspberry pi even though it's the x86_64 version. It's quite simple, you must install an x86_64 version of debian inside your current Raspbian and then "chroot" into that OS and then install Edge and then after it's installed you'll be able to launch edge from there. It is a semi lengthy process just to run Edge on the Raspberry Pi. I hope you find this useful.
  - myusrn
    Brass Contributor
    Aug 18, 2021
    J_jones85
    Thanks for the work around to use until such time as an edge for arm / raspberry pi os becomes available?
    q1. Does the process you outline work for raspberry pi os 64bit beta installs or only the default 32bit installs?
    q2. Is the resulting edge install performance using the method you describe significantly impacted?
    q3. Is installing chrome on raspberry pi os 64bit beta release also require a custom process?
Kam
Silver Contributor
Nov 10, 2020
formula155 It was a .deb file, right?
- formula1551700
  Copper Contributor
  Nov 10, 2020
  Yes, it was a .deb
  
  Thanks
  
  Guy
  - Kam
    Silver Contributor
    Nov 10, 2020
    formula1551700 I'm not an expert on Linux, so let's wait for the pros at Microsoft.

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