1. Objective
The objective is to install the Google Chrome web browser on Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver Linux
2. Operating System and Software Versions
- Operating System: – Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver 64-bit
3. Requirements
Privileged administrator/root access is required to install this software.
4. Install prerequisites
The simplest way to install an external package, like in this case the Google CHrome web browser, is by use of the gdebi command. Open up terminal and install the gdebi package using the following linux command:
sudo apt install gdebi-core
5. Download Google Chrome
Next, use the wget command to download the Google Chrome package:
wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb 6. Install Google Chrome
To install the Google Chrome package on Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver using the gdebi command is as simple as:
sudo gdebi google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb When asked Do you want to install the software package? [y/N] answer y.
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