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# Fixing "The chromium binary is not available for arm64"
- URL: https://broddin.be/fixing-the-chromium-binary-is-not-available-for-arm64/
- Published: 2022-09-19T11:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-19T19:04:40.000Z
- Author: Tim Broddin
- Tags: coding, javascript, puppeteer, #wordpress, #Import 2024-02-03 13:15, #broddin, #Migrated-1784487752640, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-07-19 19:02

When installing Puppeteer on your new shiny M1/M2 powered Mac, you might come across this error message, when trying to install the Puppeteer NPM package:

```bash
The chromium binary is not available for arm64: 
If you are on Ubuntu, you can install with: 
apt-get install chromium-browser
```

Fear not, there is an easy fix!

Just install Chromium manually with HomeBrew:

```bash
brew install chromium --no-quarantine
```

No quarantine?

The no quarantine flags ensures you don’t get the “Chromium is damaged and can’t be openend”.

After installing Chromium, just add these two lines to `~/.zshrc`:

```text
export PUPPETEER_SKIP_CHROMIUM_DOWNLOAD=true
export PUPPETEER_EXECUTABLE_PATH=`which chromium`
```

Don’t forget to run source `~/.zshrc` afterwards. Your installation of puppeteer should now work.