Cannot install Chrome on Ubuntu 16.04

Question

Doenloaded the .deb package of Chrome from Google's site. The installation doesn't work when trying to install from the GUI. What's up with that?

Solution 1

Google Chrome requires some missing dependencies as can be seen when trying to install from the terminal using dpkg -i. Prior to installing Chrome, run:

sudo apt-get install libindicator7 libappindicator1

After that, Chrome installation works fine.

Solution 2

Its very simple to install google chrome on ubuntu . Type the following commands in the terminal

Step 1 : Download the latest Google Chrome .deb package with wget:

wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb

Step 2 : Install the Google Chrome .deb package

sudo apt install ./google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb

Hope this helps!

Solution 3

Update the packages first in Ubuntu by below command.

$ sudo apt-get update

Install Required Dependices for Google Chrome as shown below.

$ sudo apt-get install libnss3-1d libxss1 libgconf2-4 libappindicator1 libindicator7

Download the Google Chrome command using below command.

$ wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb

still during installation if you get some error that some dependency is not installed run the below command and it will install all required dependencies.

$ sudo apt-get -f install

Now let's go ahead and install Google Chrome by below command.

$ sudo dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb

And its done....

To open it just run below command command

$ google-chrome

Comments

[GillesC]

Just had the issue myself on a fresh ubuntu built (17). The following dependencies were also needed gconf-service-backend gconf-service gconf2-common and libgconf-2-4 - best call is to install from cmd line so one can see error if any. Pretty poor UX on Ubuntu part for not showing errors in the GUI.