Re: Install Google Chrome

[Alois Mahdal <Alois.Mahdal.1-ndmail@zxcvb.cz>]

On Sun, 17 Nov 2013 23:40:49 -0500
erosenberg@hygeiabiomedical.com wrote:

> Dear List -

Dear Ethan,


> I have done the following -
> 
> Downloaded chrome from site into /opt
> 
> root@meow:/opt# ls
> google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb


First, do you really need the Chrome from the site?  Chrome is
available in Debian repositories under name Chromium, so you
should not need to download manually anything, just simple

  root@meow:~# apt-get install chromium

should do.  (And `apt-get purge google-chrome-stable` to undo
the half-installed Chrome).


OK, if you know what you are doing and *really* need their
stable version, continue reading.


> now I get
> 
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of
> google-chrome-stable:
> [...]
>  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured

This is normal and it's because dpkg does not solve the
dependencies for you.  That's what APT does.

> 
> What should I do?
> 

So *if* the missing dependencies are in Debian repos, all you
should need to do is 

   root@meow:~# apt-ger install -f

which will try to fix the broken dependencies.



Thanks,
aL.