Starting Google Chrome
Dear list -
This will be a combined reply to all the suggestions I received:
ethan@rosenberg:~/Desktop$ ls -l /usr/bin /usr/local/bin | grep -F chrom
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3256 Apr 2 09:30 chromium
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 Apr 6 01:13 google-chrome ->
/opt/google/chrome/google-chrome
ethan@rosenberg:~/Desktop$ dpkg -l \*google\* | grep ^i
ii google-chrome-stable 26.0.1410.63-r192696
i386 The web browser from Google
Installing Google Chrome with dpkg doesn't install the dependencies
that the package needs to work. Have you tried running aptitude and
applied the suggested solution to do that?
Yes - See below
rosenberg:/home/ethan# apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 259 not upgraded.
dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb
works w/ errors.
apt-get -f install
completes the installation
Found a desktop file and converted to run the Credits/Purchases program
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Name=Credit/Purchases Program
GenericName=Web Browser
X-GNOME-FullName=Google Chrome
Comment=Web browser from Google
Exec=/opt/google/chrome/google-chrome localhost/choice.php
Icon=/opt/google/chrome/product_logo_48.png
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=GNOME;GTK;Network;WebBrowser;
StartupNotify=true
Actions=Chrome;Incognito;Separator;Amazon;AOLMAIL;Facebook;FreeTv;Drive;GooglePlayMusic;Gmail;Torrentz;UbuntuOne;Youtube;Separator2;GoogleR$
Name[en_US]=Credit/Purchases Program
X-Ayatana-Desktop-Shortcuts=Chrome;
X-Desktop-File-Install-Version=0.20
[Desktop Action Chrome]
Name=Chrome
Exec=/opt/google/chrome/google-chrome
DONE!!!!!!!
THANKS TO ALL!!!!!!!!!
Ethan
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