Installing Chrome onto Ubuntu 16.04

Question

When trying to install Chrome onto my AWS Ubuntu instance, I ran the following command:

sudo curl -sS -o - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | apt-key add

And got: This command can only be used by root

Answer 1

Put sudo in front of apt-key, since that's the command that needs root. You also need - as the filename for apt-key add:

curl -sS -o - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | sudo apt-key add -