Comments on: How to Install Chromium (Google chrome) in Ubuntu using deb package

By: CrazyClive

CrazyClive — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 18:27:52 +0000

UbuntuGeek,

Thanks very much for this page: this is the ONLY web resource anywhere I could find that actually provides the solution to (re-)installing the Chronium browser on Ubuntu Linux.

What’s really disgraceful is that none of this information is provided at Chronium’s own website (http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/LinuxBuildInstructions). What they say instead is the following:

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Due mostly to its history and its complexity, Chromium uses a nonstandard set of custom tools to check out and build. Here’s an overview of the steps you’ll run:

1 gclient. A checkout involves pulling nearly 100 different SVN repositories of code. This process is managed with a tool called gclient.
2 gyp. The cross-platform build configuration system is called gyp, and on Linux it generates Makefiles. Running gyp is analogous to the ./configure step seen in most other software.
3 make. The actual build itself uses GNU make.
4 We don’t provide any sort of “install” step.
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Frankly, I think this attitude stinks and gives the impression that software geeks prefer to keep things complicated to keep the likes of you and me ignorant. What do others think?

Many thanks once again to UbuntuGeek for not leaving is ignorant in such affairs.

Yours,
Clive (Kubuntu 11.04, London, UK)

By: tagz

tagz — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 13:12:37 +0000

after the complete installation, it ended u with E:Broken Packages

By: michael

michael — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 14:52:19 +0000

you can also install opera which is a much better browser or gecko or epiphany or many more, as long as your ubuntu has some gnome in there!!

By: Bruiser

Bruiser — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 11:28:03 +0000

This is why Linux is a fail. Too many hurdles in just installing a simple application.

By: Jaden

Jaden — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 02:44:50 +0000

when ever i try to do sudo dpkg -i cxchromium_0.9.0-1_i386.deb i get this error:
jaden is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.
whats that mean? i get through the first part but second part wont

By: Ross Nye

Ross Nye — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 22:56:07 +0000

There is a small error on this page, in the way its rendered rather than the information.

In the following line above the “--”s are rendered with – chars and when you copy paste to a terminal the command line it doesn’t work. Here is what it should be.

sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 0xfbef0d696de1c72ba5a835fe5a9bf3bb4e5e17b5

By: Pulkit Kaushik | TheDolt

Pulkit Kaushik | TheDolt — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 08:37:54 +0000

Or download from Google http://www.google.com/chrome

By: kaus

kaus — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 17:30:02 +0000

didnt work for me. i use ubuntu 9.04 n am a novice linux user. i used this command and i got following error

sudo apt-get install google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb

Couldn’t find package google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb

please help…

By: Joe Negron ~ NYC

Joe Negron ~ NYC — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:39:19 +0000

I posted this once before but it got buried. If any are interested: here are 2 steps that (w)gets the deb file right from google & cuts out any potential man-in-the-middle issues… It doesn’t have any other dependencies. So far, It works in every version of ubuntu and debian and it even works in knoppix.

1.) wget http://dl.google.com/dl/linux/direct/google-chrome-beta_current_i386.deb
2.) sudo dpkg -i google-chrome-beta_current_i386.deb

~Joe Negron
-------------- link to full article ----------
http://www.logicwizards.net/2010/07/16/installing-google-chrome-on-debian-ubuntu-or-knoppix-with-apt-get/

By: majalah

majalah — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 03:13:39 +0000

Thanks for the guide. Currently, I just use Firefox on my Kubuntu. But, sometimes it works too slow. Chrome fast enough when i try on windows

By: Shahdan

Shahdan — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 16:07:00 +0000

Thanks for the step.. But for the GPG Key, I use the same as Ray does. And it work!.

Thanks again..

By: Ray

Ray — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 06:40:35 +0000

“sudo add-apt-key ppa:chromium-daily/ppa” did not work for me..

but this did:

add-apt-repository ppa:chromium-daily/ppa
apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 0xfbef0d696de1c72ba5a835fe5a9bf3bb4e5e17b5

(the apt-key adv …command should be all in one line up the end of the key ( …7b5))
Hope that helps.

By: Zal

Zal — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 12:48:22 +0000

Thanks for the tip Malcolm. Helped me out.

By: Malcolm

Malcolm — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:13:25 +0000

I had a bit of trouble installing the GPG key: Firefox showed the double-dashes as long dashes, which didn’t work when copied to the command line. Just had to write in the double-dashes myself.

By: khaki

khaki — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 10:10:32 +0000

after i run the following command:

sudo dpkg -i cxchromium_0.9.0-1_i386.deb

i then received the following message:

cxbottle:warning: The current character encoding (UTF-8) may not be compatible with the encoding of the bottle (ISO-8859-1). This may cause applications to not find their files and thus lead to malfunctions.
Unknown option --version
Unknown option --version
Unknown option --version
Unknown option --version

what does it mean? and what should i do to continue installing chrome?

By: Danil

Danil — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 13:20:26 +0000

You have an error after “Now add the GPG key using the following command”. The code is formatted as a text which causes correction of “--” sign to “–”. Please correct.

By: ana

ana — Thu, 27 May 2010 04:36:07 +0000

I used Chrome website to download chrome. everything was done automatically^)
but thanks a lot nevertheless!:))

By: Gojeg

Gojeg — Wed, 26 May 2010 22:46:55 +0000

When I use Chromium, Google Gears does not work. But, now I’m using Chrome, and everything is fine.

By: Olivier Pons

Olivier Pons — Wed, 19 May 2010 16:38:19 +0000

Thank you very much it worked like a charm!

By: Joe Negron - NYC

Joe Negron - NYC — Sat, 08 May 2010 05:43:01 +0000

I’m even lazier - but if any are interested: here are 2 steps that (w)gets the deb file right from google & cuts out any potential man-in-the-middle issues… and it even works in knoppix.

1.) wget http://dl.google.com/dl/linux/direct/google-chrome-beta_current_i386.deb

2.) sudo dpkg -i google-chrome-beta_current_i386.deb

As of this writing, it painlessly installed 5.0.375.29-beta. I suppose you could just run it again to update it…

~wiz