Re: Starting Google Chrome

[Kumar Appaiah <a.kumar@alumni.iitm.ac.in>]

On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 11:08:44PM -0400, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote:
> On 04/15/2013 07:59 PM, Kumar Appaiah wrote:
> >On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 07:48:39PM -0400, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote:
> >>Kumar -
> >>
> >>Thanks.
> >>
> >>  It would be useful to know how you installed Google Chrome. If you
> >>  have installed it from the deb file, google-chrome should be the
> >>  executable.
> >>
> >>Package Manager.
> >
> >I installed the Google Chrome deb file downloaded from the Chrome
> >website¹, and that did put a file called google-chrome in /usr/bin
> >
> >To check the contents of the package, you can use dpkg -L google-chrome-stable
> >
> >Hope this helps.
> >
> >Kumar
> >
> >¹: https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/browser/
> 
> =============
> Kumar -
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> rosenberg:/home/ethan/Desktop#  dpkg -L google-chrome-stable
> dpkg-query: package 'google-chrome-stable' is not installed

Then download it from here:

https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/browser/

Get the deb, and run dpkg -i <debfile>

That should install it.

Kumar
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