I have VMWare Fusion on my M1 Macbook Pro running an ARM64 Ubuntu 26.04 LTS VM

In the VM spatie/browsershot is running to create PDF's in a web app so I need a working instance of Chromium Browser which the PHP-FPM service running as the www-data user can run to generate PDF's

The problem is the snap version of Chromium Browser doesn't work, neither does the flatpak, both are sandboxed up the cahzoo and won't run.

So I want to install a non-sandboxed version of Chromium Browser

You need to go to the Debian Trixie package site and download chromium, chromium-common and libjpeg62-turbo

https://packages.debian.org/trixie/arm64/chromium

https://packages.debian.org/trixie/arm64/chromium-common/download

https://packages.debian.org/trixie/arm64/libjpeg62-turbo/download

Also you may need to install a number of dependencies.

sudo apt-get install libopenh264-8 \
 libdouble-conversion3 \
 libxnvctrl0 \
 libdav1d7 \
 libminizip \
 libminizip-ng4t64 \
 libminizip1t64

# install the downloaded packages
sudo apt-get remove libjpeg62
sudo dpkg -i libjpeg62-turbo_2.1.5-4_arm64.deb 
sudo dpkg -i chromium-common_147.0.7727.116-1~deb13u1_arm64.deb 
sudo dpkg -i chromium_147.0.7727.116-1~deb13u1_arm64.deb 

Once the above is done Chromium seems to launch and run happily and Puppeteer / spatie/browsershot worked well.