How to Install Google Chrome browser (not Chromium) in Debian Linux

Posted by Rakesh under Howto, Linux /GNU, Nxt, Uncategorized

Google Chrome for Linux has arrived.

As we know, Google has already its open source version of its Chrome browser and it is called Chromium. But recently Google has updated its Google Chrome browser with a new beta release.

So here, it’s all about installing Google Chrome browser on Debian machine.

Installing Google Chrome browser (Chromium) on Debian Lenny or Ubuntu is easy. Let’s start now…

Imp. Note:

Command line configuration for APT

On an APT-based system (Debian, Ubuntu, etc.), you must download the key and then use apt to install it and refresh your package indexes.
For more information on Google’s package signing key, see the Signing Key page.

Run these commands as root from commandline:

rakesh@ debian:~# wget -q -O – https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | apt-key add -


rakesh@ debian:~# apt-get update

Recent versions of apt-get will automatically attempt to verify packages on download. If an appropriate key is not found or if the package is corrupted, you will get a message like the following:

WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated! packagename

Add the following rule to e.g. /etc/apt/sources.list, or if your distro has the /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ directory, add it to a file called google.list in that directory:

rakesh@ debian:~# gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

# Google software repository deb http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/ stable non-free main

then use apt as usual, e.g.

rakesh@ debian:~# sudo apt-get update

Run the following command from commandline as root to install Chrome browser (for me the current version of Chrome are: google-chrome-unstable and google-chrome-beta)

rakesh@ debian:~# sudo apt-get install google-chrome-unstable

OR

rakesh@ debian:~# sudo apt-get install google-chrome-beta

Done!

To open the browser, go to Applications -> Internet -> Google Chrome.

Enjoy Google Chrome in Linux ! …

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