chromium-update.sh

#!/bin/bash

# Installation directory - change this to a directory of your choice
# Please make sure the directory exists first, or the script won't work
INSTALLDIR=$HOME

# Determine the architecture of the machine in use and set variables accordingly
if [ -z "$ARCH" ]; then
  case "$( uname -m )" in
    i686) ARCH=i686 ;;
       *) ARCH=$( uname -m ) ;;
  esac
fi

if [ "$ARCH" = "i686" ]; then
  DIRSUFFIX=""
elif [ "$ARCH" = "x86_64" ]; then
  DIRSUFFIX="_x64"
else
  echo "The ARCH should be either i686 or x86_64. Exiting."
  exit
fi

# Determine the build number of the latest build
#LATESTBUILD=$(curl http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/chromium-browser-continuous/Linux/LAST_CHANGE)
curl http://omahaproxy.appspot.com/all?csv=1 > /tmp/chrome-omaha.csv

while IFS=, read os chan curr_ver prev_ver curr_rdate prev_rdate base_trunk_rev branch_rev base_wk_rev true_branch wk_ver v8_ver
do
	if [[ "$os" == "linux" && "$chan" == "stable" ]]; then
		LATESTBUILD=$base_trunk_rev
	fi
done < /tmp/chrome-omaha.csv

# The URL to download from
CHROMEURL="http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/chromium-browser-snapshots/Linux"$DIRSUFFIX/$LATESTBUILD/"chrome-linux.zip"

cd $INSTALLDIR
if [ -e chrome-linux.zip ]; then                    # Check to see if `chrome-linux.zip` already exists
        mv chrome-linux.zip chrome-linux.zip.old    # if it does, rename it to chrome-linux.zip.old as backup
fi                                                  # in case the current build has problems
wget -O chrome-linux.zip $CHROMEURL
unzip -u -o ./chrome-linux.zip