Google Chrome 78 Released. It is a freeware web browser developed by Google Inc. It is the most popular browser and used by millions of users. It provides a long list of development tools for web developers. Google Chrome is available for Linux, Windows and Mac OS. The Google Chrome 78 stable version has been released to download and install with various bug fixes and improvements. This tutorial will help you to install or upgrade Google Chrome to latest stable release on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and 16.04 LTS, LinuxMint 19/18.
Why use Google Chrome?
You have multiple web browsers as alternatives to chrome, but still, most of the users prefer to use Google Chrome. Below are a few of my points of view about Chrome.
- First thing is that Google chrome is developed by Google, Every one trust on Google products.
- Google chrome is very light weight and fast web browser
- It provides easy to access, We can browser web site and search with same box.
- Google chrome created individual process for each window, So on multi user environment, multiple users can use Chrome on one system.
Step 1 – Add Google Chrome PPA
First, add (if not added already) the Google Chrome repository on your system using the following command. While using PPA to our system we also receive the latest updates whenever you check for system updates.
wget -q -O - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | sudo apt-key add -
Now add the PPA url to the /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google.list file as per your system architecture.
64-Bit systems:
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google.list'
32-Bit systems:
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google.list'
Step 2 – Install or Upgrade Google Chrome
After adding the Google Chrome repository in our system use following commands to install the latest Google Chrome stable release. If you already have installed an older version, It will upgrade the currently installed version with the recent stable version.
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install google-chrome-stable
Step 3 – Launch Google Chrome
After completing step 2 the Google Chrome has been installed successfully on our system. Let start Google Chrome using the desktop menu or using one of the following commands.
google-chrome & [or] google-chrome-stable &
Congratulation’s you have successfully installed Google chrome on Ubuntu system.
We can also use Google chrome GUI installer to install with graphical interface.
Why does mine have an error like this?
Error: /etc/machine-id contains 0 characters (32 were expected)
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I am stuck at version 70. I would like to install version 74. This article didn’t help with that.
How to downgrade the version in chrome ubuntu 16.04
Already installed version – 72.0.3626.121 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Need to downgrade version – 71.0.3578.98 (Official Build) (64-bit)
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After following the instructions – which are very clear, thank you! – I continue to get error messages:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
google-chrome-stable : Depends: libnss3 (>= 2:3.22) but 2:3.19.2.1-0ubuntu0.15.04.2 is to be installed
Recommends: libu2r-udev but it is not installable
W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable/main amd64 Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/dl.google.com_linux_chrome_deb_dists_stable_main_binary-amd64_Packages)
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
I am new to using Linux – how do I fix these broken packages?
Thanks in advance for your help!
Google Chrome is installed on every and low-quality system and it needs to know about its installation on Ubuntu and other systems and you can check it https://babasupport.org/windows/windows-error-0x8024200b if you face windows error
Didn’t work for me. From both the command line and the tool bar I still get chrome 55
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I am receiving the error msg Err http://archove.canonical.com precise elease.gpg
Something wicked happened resolving ‘archove.canonical.com:http’ (-5 – No address associated with hostname)
The update terminates with the error msg
E: GPG error: http://packages.medibuntu.org precise Release: The following signatures were invalid: NODATA 1 NODATA 2
By following your instructions, I have successfully updated my Google Chrome to latest version 61 (Oct 2017). Thank you very much.
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If you have 64bit architecture you need to use: deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main in the file
Suggested in: https://askubuntu.com/questions/743814/unable-to-find-expected-entry-main-binary-i386-packages-chrome
Thanks Milo,
Article has been updated accordingly
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Ditto exactly Andy’s comments above.
Unfortunately I’m getting “W: Failed to fetch http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/dists/stable/Release Unable to find expected entry ‘main/binary-i386/Packages'” on a fresh install of 14.04 Ubuntu on a 32-bit machine.
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I installed remote desktop in Linux14 bt could not access termial fo install firefor
Install openssh-server
How to run chrome as root user in Ubuntu?
Thanks so much, this worked perfectly (running Ubuntu 15.04). The unfortunate part is that I ONLY need Chrome for Netlfix!
“Google is evil” is a popular opinion, and you trust Google?
Do you trust in a popular opinion? Poor you. You should learn to use your brain.
After running: “sudo apt-get update” on Ubuntu 14.04 32-bit.the following error is being thrown pls help me in this regard,…………..
W: GPG error: http://in.archive.ubuntu.com trusty-backports Release: The following signatures were invalid: BADSIG 40976EAF437D05B5 Ubuntu Archive Automatic Signing Key
W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable/main i386 Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/dl.google.com_linux_chrome_deb_dists_stable_main_binary-i386_Packages)
W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable/main i386 Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/dl.google.com_linux_chrome_deb_dists_stable_main_binary-i386_Packages)
try “deb [arch=amd64] https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main” instead
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hello there, i cant update my Google Chrome on Ubuntu 14.04…
Sorry – not every is trusting google …
Second: chrome has a sandbox system for every tab – so it is memory hungry and NOT a light weight browser.
And take a look on a defintion for a ” multi user environment” …..
whoooiiiee.. worked for me..!
Thanks for the help.
Or maybe just
sudo echo “deb http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main” >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google.list
for the second command? I’m not sure why we’re needlessly complicating things by calling a shell from a shell.
I tried- got permission error on writing to file.
Because when you do sudo command >> file.txt you’re doing 2 operatuins: a) executing `command` under sudo permissions b) writing output of that command into file.txt. The problem if you do it simply by `sudo command >> file.txt` than sudo will NOT apply to actual operation of writing to `file.txt` and you will get permisson errror.
echo “deb http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main” | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google.list
thanks…gonna try it now
Thanks for the help. Worked perfectly for me. I was able to successfully install chrome once again.
Noone should trust google chrome.