Cannot install Chrome

[monkeybrain2012]

Chrome doesn't install in 13.04 because of missing dependency (libudev0 >=147) The library has been removed from Raring repository (have libudev1 instead) To install Chrome one needs to download the missing lib from Quantal's repository.

http://handytutorial.com/install-goo...dency-problem/

It seems quite unacceptable that the user would need to go to repository for older releases of Ubuntu to hunt down missing pieces in order to install a very popular piece of software. Hope this will be fixed by release.

[sanderj]

Checking: You really mean Chrome, not Chromium?

FWIW: I'm running Chromium Version 25.0.1364.160 Ubuntu 13.04 (25.0.1364.160-0ubuntu3), and that installs as it should

[monkeybrain2012]

Checking: You really mean Chrome, not Chromium?

FWIW: I'm running Chromium Version 25.0.1364.160 Ubuntu 13.04 (25.0.1364.160-0ubuntu3), and that installs as it should

I mean Chrome, not Chromium. I installed the deb from Google as in Precise and Quantal, it then creates a repository for upgrading. I use Chrome + Firefox.

[VinDSL]

If you mind living on the ragged edge (after all, we're testers)...

You might want to try Canary unstable/untested -- straight off the trunk!

LINK: http://download-chromium.appspot.com/

Currently running (as I type): "Version 28.0.1470.0 (192941)"

Works great on my Raring install. No fiddling around with old versions of udev.

[calebmolstad]

Similar thread
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2132483

[craig10x]

Ahh...but Chrome has its own built in (and current flash which we don't get anymore from adobe....chrome has an agreement with adobe to provide up to date versions with pepper) and also a very convenient web pdf reader (so you can look at a pdf file without downloading it to your drive but with the option to do that as well)...That is why many prefer Chrome over Chromium (although i know you can ADD those to Chromium but it is nice to get it "stock" as it were)...

That dependency thing does need to get fixed...it's gonna cause a problem for those installing the latest 13.04s...I ran the beta live and sure enough, had to add that dependency to get chrome to install...
no problem when i installed 13.04 because that was way before the change...

Vin...he can go bleeding edge canary with Chrome too...and i've sometimes run Chrome beta on live sessions and it seemed fine....on my installed ubuntu i am a bit more "chicken" and run stable

In fact, when download the Chrome Deb, aside from putting the Chrome updater ppa in your software sources, if you look in the package manager you see all three version of Chrome (stable, beta, unstable) of course the one that is installed is stable, but at any time you can upgrade/downgrade from one version to another...

Again, that dependency problem needs to get fixed...hope it will be done by final release...

[vasa1]

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Currently running (as I type): "Version 28.0.1470.0 (192941)"
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That means you should be running Google's recently forked Blink engine.

[craig10x]

They mentioned that "Blink" development just started in Canary...so, it will be some time before there are actual differences of "webkit"...right now, they are basically identical...

[vasa1]

They mentioned that "Blink" development just started in Canary...so, it will be some time before there are actual differences of "webkit"...right now, they are basically identical...

My understanding is that Chrome dev already has it.

See http://techdows.com/2013/04/chrome-2...available.html at the bottom. But maybe it's still in Windows and not in Linux builds?

[craig10x]

Nice article link vasa 1...and it states that right in the beginning of the article: (it will get different as development comes along, of course)...

At present you can’t really spot/see any difference the way Chrome works with Blink as Google developers working on it and Chrome says on availability of it for Chrome as “very beginning, its really nothing that different from WebKit