Microsoft Edge is available for Linux, and in this guide I show you how to install it on Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and other Ubuntu-based Linux distributions.
Microsoft Edge uses the same underlying browser technologies as Google Chrome
As you’ll see in this tutorial, installing Microsoft Edge on Ubuntu and its derivatives is easy. You can do it using a GUI, or through the command line (CLI).
Both methods install the same, official Linux build. Both add the Microsoft Linux repo for Microsoft Edge to your system so you can install new releases alongside your other software updates.
Since Microsoft Edge is based on Chromium, the open-source browser engine developed (albeit not exclusively) by Google, nearly all websites, web apps, and web services that work in Chrome will work in Edge.
Better yet, you can install Chrome extensions in Microsoft Edge! This is because the underlying technologies are identical (though Microsoft has its own extension hub for browser add-ons, some of which are only available there).
Preamble out of the way, on to the actual how-to part you came for.
How to Install Edge Browser on Ubuntu
Note: This guide is on how to install Edge on Ubuntu, not why you should install it. You decide what software you use on your computer. Don’t want to use Edge? That’s cool, but this tutorial is written to help those who do.
Install Edge on Ubuntu (DEB)
The reasons it’s so easy to install Edge on Ubuntu because Microsoft provide an official installer package for Ubuntu. You can download that from their official website.
The same installer works on all official Ubuntu flavours (e.g., Kubuntu, Xubuntu, et al) as well as Ubuntu-based distros including Linux Mint, Zorin OS, Pop!_OS, and many more.
The steps below are based on regular Ubuntu, so keep in mind that some things may vary if you’re following along from a different system.
1. Go to Microsoft Edge Download Page
Assuming you’re on Linux, open any web browser and go to the official Microsoft Edge download page.
The page will show you a download button (the design of the web page changes regularly so what you see in this screenshot may have changed since it was taken):
When you click the download button it won’t actually download anything. Instead, you’ll be asked to agree to Microsoft Edge’s terms of service.
Read through the text—lol, yeah—then click “accept and download” to actually start the download:
2. Download Edge for Linux
Depending on the browser you’re using to download Edge, you may be asked where you want to save the .deb installer first. I recommend you choose your Downloads folder (or another directory you can access easily).
Then, just wait for the download to finish!
3. Double click on the installer
Once the DEB finishes downloading, open your file manager app and go to the folder you saved the DEB to in the previous step.
Inside, find the microsoft-edge-stable DEB file and double click on it.
This opens the installer in Ubuntu Software (on Ubuntu 22.04 or App Center on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and later. If you’re reading this tutorial from Linux Mint, clicking the DEB will open the default package installer there, e.g., Gdebi or Mint Installer.
Now simply follow the instructions you see on screen:
The official Microsoft Edge repository gets added to your system’s list of software sources during installation to allow future updates to the browser to be installed alongside other software updates in the Software Updater.
4. Open Microsoft Edge
Allow the install to finish full then, hurrah–the fun part!
Go to the Applications picker (or whichever app menu, launcher, etc your system is configured with) to find and launch Microsoft Edge.
The first time you run Edge it can take a few moments to initialise, create the relevant cache and config folders it needs to work, and do the annoying thing of checking to see if it’s the default browser.
Beyond that, it’s up to you.
Install Edge on Ubuntu using the terminal
Do you prefer to install software on Ubuntu using the command line? If so I’ve got you covered.
First step: set-up.
The following command will add the official Microsoft Edge Linux repo to your system and import the Microsoft GPG key that is required to authenticate packages (so Ubuntu can be sure they are what they say they are):
curl https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc | gpg --dearmor > microsoft.gpg
sudo install -o root -g root -m 644 microsoft.gpg /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/edge stable main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/microsoft-edge-dev.list'
sudo rm microsoft.gpg
If running this command shows an error that curl is not installed you must first install Curl in Ubuntu by running sudo apt install curl then re-run the command above.
Second step: paste this command in to the terminal to first refresh the list of packages your system can see is available, and then download and install the latest stable Microsoft Edge for Linux release:
sudo apt update && sudo apt install microsoft-edge-stable
Once done, launch the browser using your favourite Linux app launcher, or run microsoft-edge .
And with the Edge Linux repo added you can also choose to install microsoft-edge-beta or microsoft-edge-unstable builds. Just keep in mind those aren’t stable so may contain bugs and unfinished features.
How to Uninstall Microsoft Edge
If you install Edge, try it out, but decide it’s not for you or takes up too much space, you can uninstall the browser as easily as you added it.
Open a new Terminal window and run:
sudo apt remove microsoft-edge-stable
Simple!
Summary
That’s it; you learned how to install Microsoft Edge browser on Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and other distributions. It wasn’t hard, was it?
Most Linux users shudder at the idea of using a web browser made by Microsoft, but I think it’s great that we have the choice to not use Edge on Linux, rather than no choice to use it.
All that’s left for you to do now is to open the browser and start surfing the web — let me know how you get on down in the comments!