The post provides brief on how to install google chrome on Ubuntu machines. There are two ways, one by downloading it from official site and the other by running commands from terminal. We will be seeing each in detail in the following post.
Method I. Downloading from official site
1. Installation
Download Chrome from official site
When you click on “Download chrome”, you will be presented with a dialog, choose (For Debian/Ubuntu) from the options as we are downloading for Ubuntu machine
Click on “Accept and Install”, and in the dialog that opens choose “Save File”
Once the download is complete.
Go to Downloads -> Right click on the downloaded chrome file -> From the menu that opens choose “Open with Software Install”
This opens an installation window, clicking on the “install” button you will be prompted for password, enter password and the process starts
Once the installation is complete the window would now be showing “Remove” button. Clicking on “Remove” would uninstall the software.
Click on “Show Applications”, you should be able to see chrome installed on your machine.
2. Un-installation
To uninstall chrome
Show Applications -> Ubuntu Software -> click on “Installed” tab -> you should be able to see chrome -> click on “Remove” button to uninstall
Method II. From terminal
Running commands from command prompt is another way how you can install google chrome on ubuntu machines.
1.Installation
Run the following commands from terminal
| 1 | wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb |
| 2 | sudo apt install ./google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb |
Running the second command would prompt you for password, enter password and the installation process starts
Once the installation is done you can verify by clicking on “Show Applications”, you should be able to see chrome.
2. Uninstallation
Run the following command from terminal
| sudo apt-get remove google-chrome-stable |
That brings us to the end of this post. Hope you enjoyed the post 🙂 stay tuned for more post’s on Ubuntu.