I believe most of you have heard of Chrome before. Chrome is Google’s promising browser, based on Chromium project, which is considered to be really fast. Until recently Chrome was available only for Windows and Mac users. But now Google has released a version of Chrome for developers in order to test it. Of course I was curious to see it running natively on Linux (without using wine or crossover office) and therefore I installed it on Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope. According to the developers site:
Chrome requires Intel Pentium 4 / Athlon 64 or later CPU, and 32 or 64 bit Ubuntu 8.04 or later, or 32 bit Debian 5. Support for other Linux distributions is planned; unpacking the .deb files by hand may work.
Installing Google Chrome will add the Google repository so your system will automatically keep Chrome up to date. (If you don’t want Google’s repository, do
sudo touch /etc/defaults/google-chrome
before installing the package.)
To test it on your own download and install the appropriate package depending on your computer’s Linux installation. Clicking on it should do the job
- Dev channel (for 32 bit systems): google-chrome-unstable_current_i386.deb
- Dev channel (for 64 bit systems): google-chrome-unstable_current_amd64.deb
**Note: you can do this also manually by downloading the appropriate package, open a terminal, cd to where you keep it and type:
sudo dpkg -i google-chrome-unstable*
You can find it under Applications > Internet -> Chromium Web Browser .
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