How To Install Google Chrome On Ubuntu Linux

Install Google Chrome on Ubuntu Linux. Terminal command to install Google Chrome Browser using PPA on Ubuntu Systems.

Download Google Chrome

Ubuntu users can manually download and install Google Chrome browser. For Debian/Ubuntu or Fedora/openSUSE Systems, users can download the latest stable version of Google Chrome browser from https://www.google.co.in/chrome/browser/desktop/. Users can download 64 bit .deb (For Debian/Ubuntu) and 64 bit .rpm (For Fedora/openSUSE).

Install Google Chrome Browser

Please note that from March 2016, Google Chrome has ended support for Ubuntu Linux 32 Bit Systems. Which means, Google Chrome can only be installed and used on 64 Bit Linux Ubuntu Systems.

Method 1

Run the following commands in Terminal to install Google Chrome on Linux Ubuntu Systems, via PPA:

$ sudo apt-get update
$ wget -q -O - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | sudo apt-key add -
$ sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google.list'
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install google-chrome-stable

Users can also install Beta version of Google Chrome browser.

Method 2

Run the following commands in Terminal to install Google Chrome on Linux Ubuntu Systems, via DEB package:

$ sudo apt-get update
$ wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
$ google-chrome-stable

Once installed, open Google Chrome from Ubuntu Dash or Terminal. To open Google Chrome from Terminal, run the following command:

$ google-chrome

Please note that installing Google Chrome will add the Google repository so your system will automatically keep Google Chrome up to date. If you don’t want Google’s repository, do “sudo touch /etc/default/google-chrome” before installing the package.

Uninstall Google Chrome

To uninstall and remove Google Chrome from Ubuntu Linux Systems, run the following commands:

$ sudo apt-get purge google-chrome-stable
$ sudo apt-get autoremove
$ sudo apt-get update