I have looked in the default software installer but it's not there. I saved it to my downloads from the website and go to 'open the folder' but it doesn't work.
It says "the MIME type of this file is 'application/x-debian-package' and can not be installed on this system. Any help?
You can visit this link, or, go to google and search for "chrome".
Click the download link, and choose your required version (64bit deb).
You can save it, and then afterwards open the file in Nautilus, or, just choose "Open File" with your current browser to open it with your package installer.
You could also install it from Terminal:
wget -q -O - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | sudo apt-key add -
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google.list'
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install google-chrome-stable
This will fetch the signing keys from Google's servers, then create a file that enables updating through Software Updater and apt, then retrieve the newest information about software versions and last but not least install Google Chrome.
You can paste this into Terminal one by one, or paste it in all at once. chromium-browser is the open source browser on which Google Chrome is based and is available from the Software Center by default. Chromium also works on 32-bit systems.
