Install chrome on Ubuntu 16.04.
In this post we will see HowTo install chrome on Ubuntu 16.04. Browser are used widely for suffering internet in any OS, Nowadays Google-chrome is used world-wide a lot. But google-chrome is not present in Ubuntu repository, So we have to download and install it.
Let’s see process for installation of Google-chrome on Ubuntu 16.04.For this setup, we have latest Ubuntu 16.04 as of now.
SetUP
root@jarvis:~# uname -r 4.4.0-21-generic root@jarvis:~# lsb_release -d Description: Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS sang@jarvis:~$ google-chrome --version Google Chrome 62.0.3202.62
We have to download Google-chrome as mention below.
root@jarvis:~# wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
--2017-10-19 13:08:19-- https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
Resolving dl.google.com (dl.google.com)... 216.58.221.46, 2404:6800:4002:806::200e
Connecting to dl.google.com (dl.google.com)|216.58.221.46|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 48500124 (46M) [application/x-debian-package]
Saving to: ‘google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb’
google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb 100%[======================>] 46.25M 143KB/s in 2m 38s
2017-10-19 13:10:57 (300 KB/s) - ‘google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb’ saved [48500124/48500124]
Now we need to install it through through dpkg command.
root@jarvis:~# dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
Selecting previously unselected package google-chrome-stable.
(Reading database ... 331731 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking google-chrome-stable (62.0.3202.62-1) ...
Setting up google-chrome-stable (62.0.3202.62-1) ...
update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/google-chrome-stable to provide /usr/bin/x-www-browser (x-www-browser) in auto mode
update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/google-chrome-stable to provide /usr/bin/gnome-www-browser (gnome-www-browser) in auto mode
update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/google-chrome-stable to provide /usr/bin/google-chrome (google-chrome) in auto mode
Processing triggers for menu (2.1.47ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.3~bzr0+16.04.20160824-0ubuntu1) ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-6ubuntu3.1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu5.1) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.59ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ...
Now we have open chrome through command google-chrome like below
sang@jarvis:~$ google-chrome
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