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jsrn · 2009-10-24 17:41:38+00:00

Apart from Chromium, there are also Chrome .deb packages:

32 bit: http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/eula_dev.html?dl=unstab...

64 bit: http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/eula_dev.html?dl=unstab...

I've used the 32 bit package on Ubuntu (9.10 beta) and Debian testing the last weeks, no problems so far.

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ramidarigaz | karma 1498 | avg karma 3.43 · | 2011-08-31 10:39:27

Um. Chrome is offered in both .deb and .rpm (each 32bit and 64 bit).

michaelmrose | karma 10452 | avg karma 1.57 · | 2018-10-30 19:30:04+00:00

Going to googles official webpage will tell you how to get chrome for Debian/Ubuntu/Opensuse/Fedora. This is about as good as it can be because chrome is closed source.

Chromium is available in the repos.

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arrakeen | karma 399 | avg karma 1.9 · | 2023-01-17 22:59:40

worked for me on debian with the latest chrome deb from google

rcarmo | karma 26588 | avg karma 5.05 · | 2016-10-30 18:19:32+00:00

I just downloaded the official Chrome .deb and did a sudo dpkg -i foo.deb.

Can't understand how that would fail, really. One thing you might try is doing an apt-get install -f, since there might be implicit dependencies depending on the build, and this forces apt to figure them out.

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sliken | karma 5336 | avg karma 1.83 · | 2017-12-12 20:12:30

Chrome 62.0.3202.94 on Ubuntu 16.04 works fine for me.

nuclear_eclipse | karma 4295 | avg karma 3.53 · | 2011-10-01 12:18:13+00:00

Google's solution for Chrome on Debian and Ubuntu is to distribute a .deb package that installs not only Chrome, but also installs a reference to their own package repository. When the user updates packages on their system, it updates Chrome from Google's repository. Chrome does not update itself, nor can it, since the package installs it to /usr/bin, which would require a su/sudo prompt to get access to.

ISL | karma 20249 | avg karma 5.04 · | 2013-10-25 17:42:39

Depending upon your objections about Chrome, you can use a non-Google Chromium binary.

analogue | karma 1 | avg karma 0.25 · | 2011-03-27 03:34:28+00:00

Google Chrome/Linux/10.0.648

mijoharas | karma 1986 | avg karma 2.18 · | 2016-12-09 06:33:17

Google Chrome: 50.0.2661.102 (64-bit) running on Arch linux.

michaelmrose | karma 10452 | avg karma 1.57 · | 2018-10-27 18:45:12+00:00

Debian prioritizes being open source over being user friendly.

Googling debian google chrome results in instructions for getting chrome on debian.

I have 3 different distros installed on 3 different computers. Chrome is listed on all app searches.

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jat850 | karma 1309 | avg karma 3.38 · | 2011-06-16 11:47:31

Chrome 10.0.648.133 on Linux.

afsina | karma 1016 | avg karma 1.68 · | 2013-11-06 20:25:06+00:00

Ubuntu 13.04 64 bit

Chrome 30.0.1599.114 : 15231

Firefox 25: 13133

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codethief | karma 4183 | avg karma 2.01 · | 2020-09-05 14:41:01+00:00

I second that question. Currently Ubuntu only forces Chromium to be installed as snap, not Google Chrome.

russss | karma 804 | avg karma 4.73 · | 2010-10-01 02:48:23

Chrome's auto-update feature on Debian-based distributions at least consists of it installing its apt repository in your sources.list. Which is fine by me.

andyking | karma 1697 | avg karma 3.96 · | 2012-09-04 09:55:11+00:00

I get dependency errors on Chrome under Ubuntu 12.04, when I do a dpkg -i google-chrome-stable-whatever.deb.

But a quick apt-get -f install after I get those errors sorts it out.

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zanny | karma 13629 | avg karma 2.97 · | 2019-01-06 00:28:26

The problem is that the Nouveau (and Ubuntu) devs have no way to overturn Googles decision in Chrome. Ubuntu can compile Chromium with a modified blacklist but Google distributes Chrome in a deb. You would need some special logic to catch the Chrome .desktop on install and add in the unblacklist flag.

smcl | karma 13675 | avg karma 2.97 · | 2017-10-30 14:34:11

I'm using Chrome on my personal laptop running Debian 9 since Firefox is still a minor pain on Debian. The "firefox-esr" package is based on version 52 and it's become usable again (IMO) since 56.0 or so - where I switched on my Windows based work laptop. The alternatives to using firefox-esr are OK but a bit fiddly - extract a tar.gz somewhere and add to PATH or muck around with symlinks, or install via apt using an unsupported third party (Ubuntu) package source.

That's my excuse, not great but switching is on my TODO :-)

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yrro | karma 2501 | avg karma 1.97 · | 2017-08-01 09:20:15

Debian patched the Chromium browser to refuse to install or update add-ons from the Chrome store. At first I found this annoying, but I am coming around to their way of thinking--that ultimately I can only trust software in the Debian archive.

jolan | karma 1058 | avg karma 2.78 · | 2011-10-13 06:08:27+00:00

I use Google's repository/Chrome and have no problems.

    $ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list
    deb http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
    $ dpkg --get-selections |grep chrome
    google-chrome-unstable                          install