Chromium Browser update for Precise 12.04.5 LTS screws up on launch - i.e. doesn't launch

This AM I installed Chromium Browser from Ubuntu Software Center and it apparently was updated to version 48.0 from 37.0.

The problem is that chromium-browser executable no longer launches, instead it gets the following output from attempting to print its new version number with the following command:

ubuntu@ubuntu:~/Desktop$ chromium-browser -version
Using PPAPI flash.
/usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromium-browser: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.18' not found (required by /usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromium-browser)
/usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromium-browser: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.18' not found (required by /usr/lib/chromium-browser/libs/libnet.so)
/usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromium-browser: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.19' not found (required by /usr/lib/chromium-browser/libs/libskia.so)

Anyone know how to fix this

-- Tom

 

Using Synaptic Package Manager with Force Package version fixed the problem. Not that I really want to downgrade, but until the problem is fixed I will stay with what works vs what doesn't.

-- Tom

 

newer google chrome and forks are no longer available for linux x86 and in special ubuntu 12.04 lts since march
https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/message/raw?msg=chromium-dev/FoE6sL-p6oU/mVlwyh02AgAJ

similar for opera
https://www.opera.com/blogs/desktop/2016/02/initial-opera-developer-37-release/

 

Doesn't the PPA maintainer provide a new libc6?

You could try backporting a newer libc6 to Precise. It's not recommended, but you should be fine as long as the backporting process succeeds.

Or, if you don't want to take the risks, you could install everything into a chroot.