Originally Posted by
coffeecat
We need to distinguish the google-chrome-stable package from the chromium-browser package. The OP is referring to the google-chrome-stable package which is not in the Ubuntu repositories. You will only see google-chrome-stable in your package manager if you enable the dl.google.com repository. This is enabled by installing the downloaded google-chrome-stable deb package. Chromium-browser, on the other hand, is in the Ubuntu Universe repository.
For what it's worth, and for others coming across this thread, for google chrome I make sure I have gdebi installed (which I find more reliable than "Ubuntu Software" for downloaded deb packages), and then right-click on the google-chrome-stable deb file and "open with..." gdebi.
Your right it is not in the repository. What I did was add it.
Code:
wget -q -O - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | sudo apt-key add -
Then
Code:
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list'
Did update
Then installed the package.
Code:
sudo apt-get install google-chrome-stable
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