Could someone kindly either give me the incantation to install this
.deb, or point me at a concise resource containing the basic package
management information.
wget -q -O - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | sudo apt-key add -
Then I think I did aptitude install google-chrome-stable
Aptitude will add the dependencies and periodically it will download chome updates for you.
Regards
Michael Fothergill
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