How to install Google Chrome on Ubuntu? #įirst, download the official Chrome Linux installer if you want to install Google Chrome on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. However, it is not open source and so you can’t install Google Chrom from Ubuntu Software Center. Īnd voilà, Google Chrome was now updated to the newest version and the red 'Update' button is gone, too.Google Chrome is a popular web browser and most people enjoy using it for its simplicity and amazing features. Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.24+linuxmint1). Processing triggers for menu (2.1.47ubuntu4). Processing triggers for man-db (2.9.1-1). Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.36.0-1ubuntu1). Processing triggers for mime-support (3.64ubuntu1). 1335595 files and directories currently installed.)

Get:1 stable/main amd64 google-chrome-stable amd64. ~ $ sudo apt-get install google-chrome-stableġ upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 43 not upgraded.Īfter this operation, 1’589 kB of additional disk space will be used. Of course in most situations, the google-chrome-stable package should be installed. Google-chrome-unstable - The web browser from Google Google-chrome-stable - The web browser from Google Google-chrome-beta - The web browser from Google There are three different versions available: ~ $ sudo apt-cache search chrome You can now install (or update if you already manually installed the deb package) Google Chrome. Now run apt-get update (or apt update) and you should see the InRelease and Packages download from the newly added Google repository: ~ $ sudo apt-get update Then add the repository: ~ $ echo 'deb stable main' | sudo tee /etc/apt//chrome.list This allows you to install Chrome through APT – and therefore also update Chrome using APT.įirst download and install the APT key from Google, which is used to sign the packages: ~ $ wget -q -O - | sudo apt-key add. Using the APT repository from GoogleĪlthough rarely mentioned or published, Google actually has its own APT repository for Chrome. This is pretty annoying and the update should be automated. You need to download and manually install the current deb package – again. A click on this update button gets you – once more – on the download website of Google Chrome.

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