When first installing Ubuntu, some of you may first look for the Chrome Browser to get your Bookmarks and Passwords in order, only to find.. that Ubuntu comes with Firefox installed by default.
Visiting the Google Chrome Download site, you are offered to download a .deb file
This will install Chrome, but only that version. Every time Chrome is updated, this proess will need to be repeated!
Install Chrome via PPA and Upgrade Automatically
To install the latest Chrome Stable and keep it updated from Ubuntu APT, we use the following commands:
We use Google’s official Linux software repository (PPA) that will automatically install and configure the settings needed to keep your Chrome browser up-to-date. Run these in Terminal.
To start Terminal, most keyboards use CTRL+T
- wget -q -O – https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | sudo apt-key add –
- sudo sh -c ‘echo “deb http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main” >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google.list’
- sudo apt update
- sudo apt upgrade
Choose from the following for your Preferred Chrome version
- sudo apt-get install google-chrome-stable [Stable Release]
- sudo apt-get install google-chrome-beta [Beta Release]
- sudo apt-get install google-chrome-unstable [Unstable Release]
Uninstalling Chrome
sudo apt purge google-chrome-[beta,stable,unstable]
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