Virtual Package

[gabmuks]

Hello and good day to all.

I have Ubuntu 12.04 and have been using Google Chrome successfully
for months. It works faster on my computer than Firefox or Chromium
and Flash-player doesn't crash with Chrome.

Yesterday after installing updates from Update Manager, the Chrome
browser could not be opened. I had to use Chromium to access net.

With the help of Moderator Ubudog I tried to un-install Chrome.

This was the response...VirtualPackage.png

Does anyone know how to uninstall a virtual package?
Or is there another way fix this problem?

Would it be better to just re-install Ubuntu 12.04?

Thank you for your time

Best regards

Pat L.

[dino99]

open nautilus to search "google-chrome", select the package(s) to remove & right-click on it to check the property (address)

then you can erase the package(s) via: sudo rm /path 2 that package

[adit]

How did you install google-chrome?
google-chrome is not in the official ubuntu repositories.
Which repository did you use to install google-chrome?
Did you install by a dowloaded .deb file?

[vasa1]

You could try

sudo apt-get purge google-chrome-stable

I know that that is what Chrome is called for me because after running

dpkg --get-selections > ~/Desktop/installed-software

and opening the file "installed-software", I see that it is not google-chrome but google-chrome-stable.

[vasa1]

How did you install google-chrome?
google-chrome is not in the official ubuntu repositories.
Which repository did you use to install google-chrome?
Did you install by a dowloaded .deb file?

http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/

But this page has a lot more information: http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel

[vasa1]

...
Yesterday after installing updates from Update Manager, the Chrome
browser could not be opened. I had to use Chromium to access net.
...

It's possible you have run into this bug: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/i...tail?id=134940

There's a help group here: http://productforums.google.com/foru...ux/UVGRyv50t0E

Basically, if your CPU is unsupported (polite speak for oldish), the new Pepper Flash, if enabled, won't let Chrome version 20 start. I'm assuming you have been updated to Chrome 20.

So if you just want to run Chrome 20 without using Flash, you should be able to do so by opening a terminal and typing

google-chrome --disable-bundled-ppapi-flash

Chrome should then run and use another Flash plug-in, if available.

You will know by checking out YouTube.

If Flash still doesn't work with Chrome, then, if you have Firefox installed and if Flash works satisfactorily, you could use the Flash plug-in that Firefox uses like this:

After starting Chrome, type about : plugins (without any spaces) in Chrome's address bar and hit enter.
Then, on the page that opens, click on the little plus sign near the top right of the page to show details.

Make sure that the first Flash plug-in is disabled and that the second Flash plug-in is enabled. (The image has the opposite because Pepper Flash works for me.)

[vasa1]

I forgot to mention that the bug I linked to shows that Google have started to work on a fix. Fingers crossed.

[gabmuks]

You could try

sudo apt-get purge google-chrome-stable

I know that that is what Chrome is called for me because after running

dpkg --get-selections > ~/Desktop/installed-software

and opening the file "installed-software", I see that it is not google-chrome but google-chrome-stable.

Thank you all for kind replies.

Here is snapshot....GoogleChromeStable.png

Another strange thing is that I have two computers both with Chrome browser. Right now I am using the older 2003 model computer and Chrome still works fine. Both computers use Ubuntu 12.04 and it works great.

[gabmuks]

Hello and thank you for kind replies.

I did manage to uninstall the google-chrome-stable from
both of my computers using the commands that you have helped me with.

I then re-installed chrome to both computers.

The old 2003 computer is still able to use the Chrome browser
with no problems.


But my newer computer has same problem even with new installation
of Chrome.

So something installed by the update manager must be stopping
the Chrome from loading.

[gabmuks]

Hello and good day.

There is one difference that I know of between the old and new
computer. I have different repositories listed on each computer.

The newer computer has more repositories listed.
One or more of them may have added something faulty to my computer.

Can anyone tell me how to find and change the repositories in Ubuntu 12.04?

I can compare the repositories on each computer and delete the ones that may be causing problems.

Thank you for your time.


Best regards

Pat L.