Installing Chrome Browser

[gmseed]

I'm trying to install Chrome on Ubuntu Desktop 20.04LTS.

1) Go to:
https://www.google.co.uk/chrome/than...r=0&brand=MRUS
2) Click "Download Chrome"
3) Select the 64bit Debian/Ubuntu package and click "Accept and Install"
4) Open with the default software installer
5) And guess what - it doesn't work and reports back the error message "Failed to install file: not supported"
6) This is amusing because during installation it states that chromium is supported, or would that be different to chrome?

I've just installed a new version of Ubuntu and already encountered 3 issues in the first 3 tasks I've done.

This is why I hate Linux and Ubuntu. It's so amateurish and always ends in having to seek help for the simplest of tasks.

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Chromium

So even though Google Chrome suggests a .deb package for Ubuntu 20.04LTS, the installation appears to fail.

Using the "Ubuntu Software" toolbar app I searched for Chroumium and installed that, which appears to have worked.

[ActionParsnip]

Never had a single issue installing Chrome.....ever.

wget -O ~/Downloads/chrome.deb https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i ~/Downloads/chrome.deb
sudo apt-get -f install
rm ~/Downloads/chrome.deb

4 commands, dead easy

[3nd]

This is why I hate Linux and Ubuntu.

go away

[grahammechanical]

@3nd

+1

I installed Google Chrome using the method suggested by ActionParsnip. It never fails. I actually do not use Chrome as a web browser. I make use of its ARCWelder extension to run an Android app that is not available as a Linux app.

Regards.

[QIII]

And yet ... millions of people have installed Chrome without the slightest hint of an issue.

[gmseed]

dito

[gmseed]

Funny how installing Chrome on 17.04 and 20.04 doesn't work for me, but Chromium does.

[3nd]

sudo apt-get update -y

sudo apt upgrade

and try your procedure again

[CelticWarrior]

Post back any error message that might come up when running the above commands.

[daniewicz]

This is why I hate Linux and Ubuntu.[/COLOR]

Very robust way to ensure a negative response on a Ubuntu linux forum. Best to show more maturity next time.