This tutorial is going to show you How to install Google Chrome on Kubuntu 12.10 via Google repository. The benefit of using Google repository is we can easily get the updated version of Google Chrome in the future. Also, the dependency files will be automatically resolved and installed on Kubuntu 12.10.
Steps to install Google Chrome on Kubuntu 12.10
1. Add Google repository to Kubuntu 12.10. To add Google repo to Kubuntu 12.10, edit the file /etc/apt/sources.list and add the following line to it
deb http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/ stable main
sudo wget -q -O - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | apt-key add -3. Now update Kubuntu
sudo apt-get update4. Install Google Chrome on Kubuntu 12.10
sudo apt-get install google-chrome-stableEnjoy
3 comments
This guide is wrong and needs to be corrected. In mean time here is one that actually works:
http://www.ubuntuupdates.org/ppa/google_chrome
Thanks Dan. Your method worked great.
can anyone help how to install google chrome in linux?
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
google-chrome-stable : Depends: gconf-service but it is not installable
Depends: libgconf-2-4 (>= 2.31.1) but it is not installable
Depends: libnss3 (>= 3.14.3) but 3.12.9+ckbi-1.82-0ubuntu2 is to be installed
Depends: libstdc++6 (>= 4.6) but 4.5.2-8ubuntu4 is to be installed
Depends: libx11-6 (>= 2:1.4.99.1) but 2:1.4.2-1ubuntu3 is to be installed
Depends: libappindicator1 but it is not installable
Depends: libcurl3 but it is not installable
E: Broken packages