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MissyQ
Former Employee
Oct 20, 2020

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DavidH0
Copper Contributor
Oct 24, 2020

MissyQ  Would you please support more Linux distros like Arch, Gentoo, Alpine Linux and Raspberry Pi 32/64 bit?

There are also many Arch users and Raspberry Pi users in the world. Also, Raspberry Pi is also widely used.

It is definitely a bad idea for Microsoft to only offer deb and rpm packages. 

Thank you.

 

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gusbemacbe
Copper Contributor
Oct 26, 2020

DavidH0 You can get Edge from unofficial AUR of Arch Linux. As for Gentoo, there is a possibility to make Microsoft Edge an AppImage to work on any Linux distribution. Just run the commands:

 

mkdir buildMicrosoftEdge
cd buildMicrosoftEdge
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AppImage/AppImages/master/pkg2appimage
mv pkg2appimage pkg2appimage.sh
chmod +x pkg2appimage.sh
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cmatomic/RecipesAppimage/master/MicrosoftEdgeAppImage/microsoft-edge-dev.yml
ARCH=x86_64 ./pkg2appimage.sh microsoft-edge-dev.yml

 

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    DavidH0
    Copper Contributor
    Oct 26, 2020

    gusbemacbe Great! What about Alpine as well as Raspberry Pi?

    Those two are commonly used on servers and routers.

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      gusbemacbe
      Copper Contributor
      Oct 26, 2020

      DavidH0 Microsoft did not release yet the official ARM version of Edge for macOS Big Sur and Raspberry Pi, but released the ARM version for Surface Pro. 

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