Install Chrome on Debian

Google chrome is a popular browser because of it’s simplicity, load quickly i.e. speed, customizable, stable and security.

In this post we shall go through how to install Chrome on Debian. However, the same installation instructions also works on older versions of Debian, Ubuntu and Mint distributions.There are two official ways to install Chrome browser, the one is using Google Chrome PPA and other method is, directly downloading and installing ‘.deb‘ packages.

Installing Google Chrome Browser Using PPA

1. We use Google’s official Linux software repository (PPA) that will automatically install and configure settings needed to keep your chrome browser up-to-date.

Before installing repository, we need to download and install Google’s Linux package signing Key that will automatically configure your package manager to verify the integrity of packages before downloading and installing on the system.

On an Debian based systems (Ubuntu, Linux Mint, etc.), use the following command to download the key and then use ‘apt-key‘ to add it to the system.

Code:

# wget -q -O - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | sudo apt-key add -

2. After adding the key, run the following command to add chrome repository to your system sources.

Code:

# sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google.list'

3. After adding chrome repository, you must do a system update to update the newly added chrome repository, using the following command.

Code:

# sudo apt-get update

4. Now, here Google PPA provides three chrome versions (stable, beta and unstable), so install whatever version you prefer.

Install Chrome Stable Version

Code:

# sudo apt-get install google-chrome-stable

Install Chrome Beta Version

Code:

# sudo apt-get install google-chrome-beta

Install Chrome Unstable Version

Code:

# sudo apt-get install google-chrome-unstable

Source - http://www.tecmint.com/install-google-chrome-in-debian-ubuntu-linux-mint/

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