Re: Starting Google Chrome - resend
On Friday 05 July 2013 17:14:20 Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote:
> I'm not sure that this ever got to the list, so I am resending.
> ================
> Dear list -
>
> I apologize for having to revisit this, but I can't get it to work,
> which I cannot understand. I followed the instructions I used
> previously, and no luck.
>
> Download from Google.
>
> cd /home/ethan/Downloads
>
> dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb
>
> works w/ errors.
I.e., Google-chrome is installed (or there would have been errors, since -i
tells dpkg to install it).
>
> apt-get -f install
So why are you trying again to install it? I don't use apt-get, but in
aptitude you would have to say what you wanted installed. But google-chrome
is already installed.
What makes you think it isn't?
> No luck. No executable found.
Mine is in /usr/bin/google-chrome - found by typing:
$ locate google-chrome | less
> Created the directory /opt.
Why?
Lisi
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