On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 7:46 AM Greg Wooledge <wool...@eeg.ccf.org> wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 04:44:14AM -0500, Felix Miata wrote: > > It seems Curt's instructions to use dpkg to install the downloaded deb > > resulted in > > creation of /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list containing > > > > deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main > > > > With any luck the next to search for such instruction will find this post > > instead of needing to > > ask here, or better yet a Debian wiki page somewhere updated or created to > > include them and > > googling to produce on first results page. :-p > > Or, and I know this is like SUPER surprising, right, but... > > ... maybe you could try searching on Google's web search engine for the > way to install Google's web browser. > > Having just done this myself, the surprising part is that the answer was > NOT the first result. It was part way down the first page for me: > > https://www.google.com/chrome/ > > On this page, there is a "Download Chrome" button. Clicking this > gives me a pop-up overlay panel thingy which asks me to select > between "64 bit .deb" and "64 bit .rpm". There is a note that tells > me how to avoid adding the Google repository if for some reason I > wouldn't want that. > > I'm not going to go through the entire download process again here, > having already done it long ago. Suffice to say, there are no > detailed instructions on the wiki for how to do this, because it's > incredibly simple and obvious, and nobody should NEED detailed > instructions. > > You download the .deb from Google and you install it with dpkg -i > or apt install ./ or whatever you prefer. Then you're done. > > Those are the instructions. >
This is the way I install Google Chrome from the terminal. cd Downloads && wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb && sudo apt install gdebi -y && sudo gdebi google*
