


By the time you read this article, it will probably download a later version of Google Chrome. It will take a while to complete depending on your internet connection.Īt the time of this writing, makepkg downloaded google-chrome-stable version 98, as you can see in the screenshot below. Makepkg will download all the required files from the internet. To install Git on Arch Linux, run the following command: Git is available in the official Arch Linux repository. But to install Google Chrome from AUR, you must have Git installed. Though Google Chrome is not available for download on the official website of Google Chrome, the good news is that Google chrome is available on AUR (Arch User Repository). Starting Google Chrome for the First Time.In this article, I will show you how to install the latest version of Google Chrome on Arch Linux. You need to perform a lot of additional steps that you won’t have to on other popular Linux distributions. So getting Google Chrome installed on Arch Linux is a little bit harder than usual. But the official website of Google Chrome doesn’t have any package for Arch Linux. On distributions like Ubuntu, Debian, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CentOS, SUSE, OpenSUSE, Fedora, you can go to the official website of Google Chrome, download an rpm or deb package file for your distribution, and install it with package managers like YUM, APT, DNF, etc. This works because the Software Updater tool checks for updates in all of your system’s configured software repositories-including the Google repository that Chrome adds when you install it.Google Chrome is one of the fastest and most popular web browsers in the world. Note: If you run Ubuntu’s standard Software Updater tool, it will update Google Chrome, along with the other applications on your system. If it cannot succeed, it will display a message telling you that it tried to upgrade but couldn’t. When a new release of Google Chrome is available, your installation of Chrome will try to update itself. sudo apt -f install Updating Google Chrome There were no unmet dependencies using this release. If you see error messages complaining about unmet dependencies, use the next command to force apt to satisfy the dependencies. The computer that this article was researched on was running Ubuntu 21.04. It’s very quick, only taking a few moments. You’ll be prompted for your password, and then the installation will start. sudo dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_current_b If you type the first few letters of the filename and hit the “Tab” key, the rest of the filename will be added for you. Remember that you can use the “Tab” key to expand filenames. When the download has completed, use the dpkg command to install Google Chrome from the “.deb” file. You’ll see a text-based progress bar and percentage counter as the download progresses.
