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I am trying to install Google Chrome,or Chromium Web Browser on Ubuntu 15.04, I tried:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install google-chrome-stable

in Terminal,but it says:

E: Unable to locate package google-chrome-stable

So what do I do to install Chromium Web Browser on Ubuntu 15.04?

Tim
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You can install Chromium Browser by running:

sudo apt-get install chromium-browser
Tim
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Pilot6
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Don't mix chromium and chrome. What you wrote was a command to install google chrome, but it isn't available as you didn't add their ppa into your repository:

add-apt repository ppa:[chrome ppa]

Chromium is good and accessible from the Software Center, but i suggest you directly download the google chrome .deb from their site, it detects linux automatically and downloads the latest .deb package version, which is opened with the software center.

delyodobrev
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Just go to Google Chrome's website and download the DEB version of it. Once that DEB file is downloaded you can simply double-click it to install it. If, for whatever reason, you want Chromium instead of Chrome, just do what Pilot6 said, which I'll put here. 

sudo apt-get install chromium-browser

The advantage of Chrome over Chromium is that Chrome has a few more features and (I believe) gets security updates and the like sooner.

Here's a direct download for the 64-bit DEB in case you have trouble finding it: https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb

Tim
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