How to Install Google Chrome 60 on Ubuntu 16.04.

To Install Google Chrome 60 on Ubuntu 16.04.

Last month, Google Chrome 60 was promoted to the stable channel release for several operating systems such as Windows, Mac and Linux platforms. The stable release comes with a number of bug fixes and improvements. This tutorial covers the method on installing Google Chrome 60 on Ubuntu.

Installing Google Chrome 60

Before you begin with the installation of Google Chrome 60, and add a key for chrome as follows.

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

After that, you need to add the repository.

root@linuxhelp:~# sh -c ' echo " deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main"  > >  /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list' 

Now, update the newly added repo by invoking the following command.

root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get update
Ign:1 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease
Get:2 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable Release [1,189 B]
Get:3 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable Release.gpg [916 B]        
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Fetched 306 kB in 17s (17.8 kB/s)  
Reading package lists... Done

You can now install the Chrome by running the following command.

root@linuxhelp:~#  apt install google-chrome-stable
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
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update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/google-chrome-stable to provide /usr/bin/google-chrome (google-chrome) in auto mode
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu3) ...

After installation go to Ubuntu dashboard and type chrome on search bar, you will see the application icon.

Click the icon to launch Chrome application.

The chrome application appears on your screen now.

With this, the installation of Google Chrome 60 on Ubuntu 16.04. is complete.