Patrick Micka

HowTo: Google Chrome In Ubuntu Linux

How To, Linux, Ubuntu

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For the past few weeks I’ve been using Google Chrome as my primary browser. I find that it performs very well compared to Firefox as well as making better use of screen real estate, even with the tweaking I wrote about last month. However, I still haven’t decided if it’s worth making the jump completely from Firefox, especially with such interesting developments in that browser’s evolution as well. It’s no shock to anyone that Firefox has been whittling away at Internet Explorer’s hegemony over the browser landscape for some time now. With the introduction of Google’s Chrome browser Internet Explorer’s fall from power continues, albeit, at somewhat of a glacial pace.

To install the latest release of Google’s Chrome browser for Linux were’re going to make use of the Google repository for Linux.

First, we need to add the repository to our software sources. Open a terminal and enter the following command to get started:

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

Then, scroll to the bottom of the file you just opened and paste the following two lines:

# Google software repository
deb http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/ stable non-free main

Next, we’ll add the public package signing key on your system to prevent warnings or errors when installing packages from the Google Linux software repositories with this command:

wget -q -O – https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | apt-key add -

Finally, to update your sources and install the latest browser release enter the following line into the terminal:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install google-chrome

That should take care of it. You’ll find the launcher for Chrome in your main menu along with all your other currently installed browsers.