Google Chrome
Google Chrome (англ. chrome — хром) — браузер, разрабатываемый компанией Google на основе свободного браузера Chromium и использующий для отображения веб-страниц движок Blink, форк WebKit. Google Chrome является самым популярным браузером.
Установка из deb-пакета с официального сайта
Скачайте установочный файл .deb с официального сайта Google.
Откройте скачанный файл (двойной щелчок левой кнопкой мыши).
Нажмите кнопку «Установить» в появившемся окне Центра приложений Ubuntu.
Установка из терминала
Для установки Google Chrome вам нужно будет загрузить ключ репозитория, добавить сам репозиторий и обновить список пакетов:
wget -q -O - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | sudo apt-key add - sudo sh -c 'echo "deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list' sudo apt-get update
Существует три версии Chrome:
google-chrome-stable — стабильная версия
google-chrome-beta — бета-версия
google-chrome-unstable — версия для разработчиков
Для установки рекомендуется стабильная версия. Для того, чтобы установить ее выполните:
sudo apt-get install google-chrome-stable
Отличия от Chromium
Google Chrome добавляет задание, которое обеспечивает автоматическое обновление браузера и Flash-плагина, в cron. Chromium поддерживает только ручное обновление.
В Google Chrome встроена функция отправки в Google отчетов о сбоях и статистики использования. За это отвечает последняя галочка в настройках в разделе Личные данные. По умолчанию опция отключена.
В отличии от Chromium в состав Google Chrome включены плагин для просмотра PDF документов и свежая версия Adobe Flash Player.
Install Chrome on ubuntu/debian with arm64
Anyone have any ideas why this doesn’t work for me? Could it be that Google chrome package is not available for my system:
root@xxx:/# dpkg --print-architecture arm64 root@xxx:/# uname -a Linux xxxx 5.11.0-1021-oracle #22~20.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 22 21:42:24 UTC 2021 aarch64 GNU/Linux root@65653cdc2f7b:/# cat /etc/debian_version 11.2 - software-installation
- google-chrome
- arm64
How to Install Google Chrome on Ubuntu & Linux Mint
Google Chrome is one of the most popular web browsers in the world, and it’s also available for Linux. In this guide, I show you how to install Google Chrome on Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and other Ubuntu-based Linux distros.
Google Chrome is not pre-installed on Ubuntu by default, and you can’t install it from the Ubuntu Software app (or the new App Center).
Don’t worry, installing Google Chrome is easy. I’ll show you how below.
You can also install Google Chrome on Linux Mint, elementary OS, Zorin OS, and other Ubuntu-based Linux distros in the same way. Just keep in mind that the screenshots you see in this guide are taken on Ubuntu, so certain parts may look different.
How to Install Chrome on Ubuntu
To install Google Chrome on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS or above you must first download the official Chrome Linux installer. To do this, point any web browser (e.g., Mozilla Firefox) at the official Google Chrome download page linked to below:
There, select the “64-bit .deb” download package option.
Hit the “Accept and Install” button to agree to the Google Chrome Terms of Service.
Your Chrome Linux download will start. If it doesn’t, or you want to skip the above step, you can download Google Chrome for Ubuntu directly using this link for the full offline installer:
If you see a box asking “What should Firefox do with this file?” check the “Save File” option and hit “OK”.
Your Google Chrome download will start. Save this installer to a location you can access easily (by default Firefox will save to your computer’s “Downloads” folder):
When the download is complete use the file manager to open the Downloads folder (or the location you chose in the previous step).
Double-click on the .deb installer package icon in the file manager (as shown below) to begin the install process.
The Software app will open.
Click the ‘install’ button:
Enter your user password when prompted.
The progress bar lets you know when the browser has finished installing.
Once it’s done you can start using Chrome! Search for ‘Chrome’ in the applications grid (or your preferred Linux app launcher) to start browsing the web.
Install Google Chrome from the Command Line
You can also install Google Chrome on Ubuntu from the command line.
Step 1: Open a new Terminal window and the following command to download the Google Chrome .deb file:
wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
Step 2: Run the following command to install Google Chrome:
sudo apt install ./google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
If you see any errors about missing dependencies, you can force install them with the following command:
sudo apt -f install
Once the installation is complete, you can open Google Chrome from the app launcher and start using it!
Set up Google Chrome
The first time you run Chrome on any Linux distro it will ask if you want to ‘make Google Chrome the default browser’. If you do want to do this (meaning any links you click in other apps open a new tab in Chrome) go ahead and check the box.
You can always change default web browser in Ubuntu at a later date
You can also choose to ‘automatically send usage statistics and crash reports to Google’. Its up to you whether you want to enable this or not, but doing so helps Chrome devs know what isn’t working so they can fix it.
The first time you use Chrome you’ll see a (mostly empty) browser window welcoming you to the browser and asking if you want to sign in.
Sign-in with any valid Google Account (e.g., your Gmail) to sync bookmarks, passwords and Chrome extensions between all devices that you use on the browser on, including your mobile phone!
Stay Updated
When you install Google Chrome on Ubuntu or a similar Linux distro, the official Google repository is added to your system. This allows you to receive future Google Chrome updates automatically, either through the Software Update tool or your preferred command line package manager.
Google Chrome Not Supported on 32-Bit Ubuntu
Google discontinued support for 32-bit Ubuntu in 2016, so you can no longer install Google Chrome on 32-bit Ubuntu systems. If you’re using a 32-bit system you can install Chromium instead. Chromium is an open-source version of Chrome.
Uninstall Chrome from Ubuntu
If you install Google’s web browser but later decide it’s not for you, that’s fine: you can uninstall Chrome on ubuntu just as easily as you installed it.
Open a new Terminal window and run:
sudo apt remove google-chrome
Removal is quick but some configuration files may be left on your system. If you want to clean these out you’ll need to delete them by hand, or use a tool like Bleachbit.
Summary
In this tutorial, you learned how to install Google Chrome on Ubuntu and its official flavours, as well as Linux Mint and (almost every) Ubuntu-based Linux distro. I also showed you how to install Google Chrome from the command line for convenience.
If you have any questions or feedback, please feel free to leave a comment below.
Use Google Chrome in Ubuntu on Windows Subsystem Linux
Hey! Thanks for stopping by! Just a word of warning, this post is almost 3 years old, . If there’s technical information in here it’s more than likely out of date.
This is a specific use case for installing Google Chrome in Ubuntu on WSL.
On Ubuntu, Snap is the preferred method to install Chromium and although snap is on the WSL image you get from the Microsoft store it’s not functional. There is a solution untested by me that may work.
There’s a nice post from Greg Brisebois on getting set up for Selenium in WSL and this is partly pulled from there, if you want to use it for Selenium then check out his post.
ℹ Prerequisites for this is that you are already set up to use GUIs on WSL, if you’ve not done that then check out this post.
Here’s a video detailing the process:
Dependencies, make sure you’re up to date first:
sudo apt update && sudo apt -y upgrade && sudo apt -y autoremove Download and install Chrome:
wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb sudo apt -y install ./google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb Check that it’s installed ok:
google-chrome --version Done! Now it can be used either from the command line google-chrome and with CLI tools like Cypress, Playwright, Puppeteer etc.
There’s also a really detailed post on getting Chromium set up on Linux from Addictive Tips.
There’s a reactions leaderboard you can check out too.