How to install Google Chrome 60 on Ubuntu 17.04
To install Google Chrome 60 on Ubuntu 17.04
Google Chrome browser is an open source program for accessing the World Wide Web and running Web-based applications. Google Chrome features simple UI, JavaScript virtual machine, V8 JavaScript engine, built-in Adobe Flash Player, WebKit open source rendering engine for loading pages rapidly, support for web standards like HTML5 and cascading style sheets (CSS), Chrome incognito mode, control over browsing footprint and session identity. 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 explains the installation procedure of Google Chrome 60 on Ubuntu 17.04.
Installation procedure
To begin with the installation procedure, download and add a key for Chrome browser using wget command.
root@linuxhelp:~# wget -q -O - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | sudo apt-key add -
OK
The key has been downloaded and now add the required repository to the target system.
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'
Next update the repo by executing the apt-get update 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
The target system has been updated with the required repositories. Next install the Chrome package 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 finishing the installation go to Ubuntu dashboard and type Chrome on search bar. Click on the icon to run the application.
The welcome page of Chrome appears on the screen.
Thus we conclude the installation of Google Chrome 60 on Ubuntu 17.04.
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