Monday, March 2, 2015

How to Install Google Chrome on Linux

add this to your /etc/apt/sources.list file

deb http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main

In step two, add the line with the red arrow pointing at it.
Then press  Ctrl+X  to exit. It asks if you want to save changes, say yes. It asks what to name the file, leave it the same to overwrite.

then run this to get the signing key

wget -q -O - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | sudo apt-key add -


then run this to update your package list:

apt-get update

then run

apt-get install google-chrome-stable

Or download chrome package from  https://www.google.com/chrome/

dpkg -i the_file_name.deb

Thanks TKO

TKOzquiktip: This is for a 'Debian' package -

This is a slight oversimplification, but...Linux is the kernel and everything after the kernel is a package.

That's why package managers play such a big role in the Linux communities.  APT (Advanced Packaging Tool) is Debian's package management tool.

 The red hat family ( REHL / Fedora / CentOS ) use YUM (yellow dog updater)

1 comment:

  1. I followed this and it worked. Chrome running good!

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