Installing Google Chrome on Linux Mint 13 Maya

Simply downloading and running the .deb software package for Google Chrome results in an error with missing dependencies and a broken cache.  Running the suggested “apt-get install -f” does not resolve the situation either.

To get the browser up and running start by downloading and adding Google signing key:

wget -q -O – https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | sudo apt-key add –

Now lets download the deb file:

 wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb (change stable to beta if you wish)

Finally install the Google Chrome package.  This should also add the Google Chrome repositories which will allow updates to Chrome in future.

 sudo dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb (change stable to beta if you wish)

Check out the following page for more information:

http://www.google.com/linuxrepositories/

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