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To be honest, I'm new to Ubuntu and 've heard that this OS more advanced rather than Windows. But why the installation of the simple browser became so complicated is out of my mind. So I downloaded google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb. After running sudo apt-get install google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb and after running sudo apt-get install google-chrome-stable_current_amd64 and after running sudo apt-get install google-chrome-stable in the terminal nothing happens, but the message Couldn't find any package by glob and Couldn't find any package by regex. Trying to install it normally through UI brings Ubuntu Software window to a frozen state. Has anything might be done to install the browser on the Ubuntu? Tried to navigate to Downloads folder where my google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb is located and run sudo apt install command - didn't work. Terminal shows Unable to locate package google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb Thanks.

President
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Google chrome is not available in Ubuntu official software repositories, you can install chromium instead of Google chrome.

to install chromium run:

sudo apt install chromium-browser

And to install Google chrome, you should download its deb installer from here. which you already did.

then to install it run:

sudo dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb

If you encounter to any errors related to dependencies; run:

sudo apt install google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
Ravexina
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That is because .deb files are installed with a different command!

In order to install a package from a .deb file you should use the following command: sudo dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb in your case.

As I remember it, that's all installing chrome requires, that said, as a general fyi sometimes dpkg will not work the first time and it will inform you to run sudo apt-get install -f. But after you do just that, you will be able to run dpkg -i again and it will work.

Quinn Jones
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