Chrome on Ubuntu

eddy — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 00:08:22 +0000

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.

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

Ubuntuforums-How to install google chrome for ubuntu

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eddy — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 07:25:02 +0000

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