Google Chrome 75 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 75 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 few my point of views 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 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)
Thanks
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!