How To: Install Google Chrome in Ubuntu

Installing Google Chrome should be easy using Ubuntu and it's well know Debian Package Management System, however for some reason Ubuntu seem to have forgotten to include it in their repositories. So in order to install Google Chrome you'll have to grab it manually for yourself.

Pressing Ctrl – Alt – T on your keyboard you should see a terminal window pop up. Running the below commands should add Google to your list of repositories and all you to install it using apt-get or in my case my preferred aptitude.

f......@ha...:~$ wget -q -O - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | sudo apt-key add -

While the above code downloads the Google repository key next, you must add it to your repository list.

f......@ha...:~$ sudo vim /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google.list

When the file opens, adding the below line will allow you to finally run an install.

deb http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main


Finally, all we need to do is run a system update and install Google Chrome Stable.

f......@ha...:~$ sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude install google-chrome-stable

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