It was long time since Google Chrome first release. But until today, I haven’t found a stable release for linux, especially ubuntu. I mean “stable release” not as they claimed, but stable as I installed and try by my self. Since it was released last year, on December 2008, I love this browser with its fast response, better than firefox I think. The problems is, since I was ubuntu user, there aren’t stable version for ubuntu, yet.Chrome for linux, known as chromium, was very disappointing at first. It was very unstable, longtime-loaded, and shortly crashed. I think it was because in fact, this is “windows version” emulated with wine.
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Nowdays, chromium become more stable. Follow this step-by-step tutorial that I quoted from ubuntugeek, to install chrome in ubuntu, using PPA ubuntu deb package.
First of all, make sure you were in the root account by using :
#sudo su
You need to edit /etc/apt/source.list
#gedit /etc/apt/source.lilst
Then add following two line :
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu karmic main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu karmic main
Thus for karmic version. For other release, just change “karmic” with your release. Then save and exit.
Add the GPG key
#sudo apt-key adv
--recv-keys--keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 0xfbef0d696de1c72ba5a835fe5a9bf3bb4e5e17b5
Update source list
#apt-get update
Last, install chromium with this command :
#apt-get install chromium-browser
Well done, installation complete. You can find it at Application –> Internet –> Chromium
I found another tutorial, using google repositoris, in ubuntu forums. It was different in third step :
Add following line in source list :
deb http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/ stable main
Save and exit. Add signing key :
#wget -q -O - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | sudo apt-key add -
Update source list
#apt-get update
And install google chrome
#aptitude install google-chrome-unstable
I just tried first way and It was success. Until now, it was stable.
I’ll give any report after.
Source :
Ubuntugeek-How to install chromium in ubuntu using deb package
