Debian
along with Ubuntu
and its variants come with Firefox
as their default web browser. Chromium
web browser, which is the open-source base of Google Chrome
is available in Ubuntu
's default apt
repositories though Google Chrome
itself is not.
You can install Chrome
in both Ubuntu
and Debian
using apt
at the terminal. You however need to first add Google
chrome
repository to apt
as Google Chrome
package is not available in the default apt
repository of both Ubuntu
and Debian
.
Terminal
from the application launcher.
Or use the <ctrl>
+ <alt>
+ <t>
keyboard shortcut.
Google Chrome
package using wget
. $ wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb --2020-05-15 07:56:32-- https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb Resolving dl.google.com (dl.google.com)... 172.217.24.174, 2404:6800:4001:800::200e Connecting to dl.google.com (dl.google.com)|172.217.24.174|:443... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 66985784 (64M) [application/x-debian-package] Saving to: ‘google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb’ google-chrome-stabl 100%[===================>] 63.88M 34.3MB/s in 1.9s 2020-05-15 07:56:34 (34.3 MB/s) - ‘google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb’ saved [66985784/66985784]
.deb
package using dpkg
. $ sudo dpkg --install google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb [sudo] password for user: Selecting previously unselected package google-chrome-stable. (Reading database ... 178996 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb ... Unpacking google-chrome-stable (81.0.4044.138-1) ... Setting up google-chrome-stable (81.0.4044.138-1) ... update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/google-chrome-stable to provide /usr/bin/x-www-browser (x-www-browser) in auto mode update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/google-chrome-stable to provide /usr/bin/gnome-www-browser (gnome-www-browser) in auto mode update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/google-chrome-stable to provide /usr/bin/google-chrome (google-chrome) in auto mode Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.36.0-1ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.24-1ubuntu2) ... Processing triggers for mime-support (3.64ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.9.1-1) ...
This will also add Google
's apt
repository for Chrome
so Google Chrome
in your system will automatically be updated.
$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list ### THIS FILE IS AUTOMATICALLY CONFIGURED ### # You may comment out this entry, but any other modifications may be lost. deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
google-chrome
from the terminal
or from the application launcher. $ google-chrome
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