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How do you install Google Chrome on Ubuntu 16.04?

Marcus Reynolds |

The software installer just hangs with a ? icon and from command line it says:

dpkg: error processing package google-chrome-stable (--install): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-6ubuntu3) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu5) ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.3~bzr0+16.04.20160415-0ubuntu1) ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.59ubuntu1) ...
Errors were encountered while processing: google-chrome-stable
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6 Answers

This worked for me (all other methods suggested got me very lost):

Download the package (64 bit):

wget

Install the package, forcing install of dependencies:

sudo dpkg -i --force-depends google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb

In case any dependencies didn't install (you would have a warning or failure message for this), you can force them via:

sudo apt-get install -f

Note: Refer to the link above for 32 bit systems.

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Simple steps - 1. Search for and install 'Gdebi Package Installer' from ubuntu app store 2. Right click the downloaded Google Chrome .deb file and select 'Open with' and then click 'Gdebi Package Installer' 3. Done! :-)

Gdebi will automatically fetch the missing dependencies for you

Has been answered in the past, here's a reference.

Refer to:This

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This is the answer that worked for me:

Simple steps:

  1. Search for and install Gdebi Package Installer from the ubuntu Software Center.
  2. Download google chrome
  3. Right click the downloaded Google Chrome .deb file and select 'Open with' and then click 'Gdebi Package Installer'
  4. Done! :-)

Gdebi will automatically fetch the missing dependencies for you.

So I just want to tell exactly what I did:

$ sudo apt-get install gdebi
$ gdebi google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb

P.S.: I was in the Downloads folder when I did this.

  1. Download latest version from
  2. Move to the folder that contains the file, via GUI or terminal (like cd ~/Downloads)

Install the package by clicking on it, or via the terminal:

sudo dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb

If you have issues, you may have to run:

sudo apt-get -f install
sudo dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb

After downloading the .deb package I ran these commands first:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libgconf2-4 libnss3-1d libxss1

and then change the terminal working directory to the downloaded file location
(like cd ~/Downloads) and then install Chrome using this command on terminal:

sudo dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb

It worked for me.

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