How To Install Google Chrome Linux, Ubuntu, Fedora? – POFTUT

How To Install Google Chrome Linux, Ubuntu, Fedora?


In the old times where the web was statically running there were browsers like Netscape, Internet Explorer. But the times changed, web is also changed and become a very dynamic platform. Also, browsers changed too but some of them are gone. There are new kings in web browsers.  Google Chrome is late comer but the most popular browser for now. To install Google Chrome to the Linux operating systems there is two main way to do this. First, one is downloading Google Chrome packages from Google and install them manually or add 3 party repositories of Google Chrome for different distributions like Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora.

Install Ubuntu, Debian, Kali

First, we will install Google Chrome by getting deb packages from Google Chrome sites. Open the following URL. This install redirects us to the Google Chrome installer package page.

Download

https://www.google.com/chrome/browser/desktop/

Click Download Chrome to get the download page.

 

Google Chrome Download
Google Chrome Download

 

Accept License

Then click Accept and Install below where we will accept the license of the Google Chrome for Linux.

Google Chrome Download
Google Chrome Download

Install Chrome Dependencies For Ubuntu, Debian, Mint, and Kali

After download finished we will use dpkg to install Google Chrome deb package. But there are some dependencies to met and install Google Chrome.

$ sudo apt-get install libpango1.0-0 libappindicator1 -y
Install Chrome Dependencies For Ubuntu, Debian, Mint and Kali
Install Chrome Dependencies For Ubuntu, Debian, Mint and Kali

Install Chrome Deb

And now we will install Google Chrome with dpkg with the following command

$ sudo dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
Install Google Chrome Deb
Install Google Chrome Deb

With this command, Google Chrome stable 64-bit version will be installed. Installed Google Chrome version is 55.0.2883.87-1

Install Fedora, CentOS, RedHat

We will install Google Chrome by downloading rpm package from the site. Open URL below. This install redirects us to the Google Chrome installer package page.

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https://www.google.com/chrome/browser/desktop/

Click Download Chrome to get the download page.

Install Fedora, CentOS, RedHat
Install Fedora, CentOS, RedHat

 

Download Chrome CentOS, Fedora, RedHat RPM

Then click Accept and Install below.

Download Chrome CentOS, Fedora, RedHat RPM
Download Chrome CentOS, Fedora, RedHat RPM

Install Chrome Dependencies

Google Chrome has some dependencies for Rpm based distributions. Let’s install them

$ yum install redhat-lsb.x86_64 -y
Download Dependencies
Download Dependencies

Install Chrome RPM

Now we can install Google Chrome with rpm package manager like below.

$ rpm -i google-chrome-stable_current_x86_64.rpm
Install Chrome RPM
Install Chrome RPM

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