The new Elementary OS 5.1 is now available for download. It comes with pretty minimal software. But don’t worry, installing the software in Elementary OS is pretty much easy. There are many software that can be installed through the AppCenter directly. But, sometimes we also need to install the software manually. So, in this article, I am going to install Google Chrome on Elementary OS 5.1 Hera. The main reason I want to switch to Chrome from Epiphany is that the Epiphany is very slow and uncomfortable.
Steps to Install Google Chrome on Elementary OS 5.1
Step 1. Download Google Chrome package
First, you will need to download the DEB file from this official download link. Choose DEB from the list. You should get a new file called : google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
Step 2. Install the DEB file
Now, open Files and browse to your download directory. Open Terminal and cd to the download directory. In my case I put the file in /home/dhani/Downloads
cd /home/dhani/Downloads
sudo dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
In most cases, you will see the following error:
dhani@dhani-virtual-machine:~/Downloads$ sudo dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb [sudo] password for dhani: Selecting previously unselected package google-chrome-stable. (Reading database … 141265 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb … Unpacking google-chrome-stable (79.0.3945.88-1) … dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of google-chrome-stable: google-chrome-stable depends on fonts-liberation; however: Package fonts-liberation is not installed. dpkg: error processing package google-chrome-stable (--install): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-11ubuntu1.1) … Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.23-1ubuntu3.18.04.2+elementary2~ubuntu5.0.1) … Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.3+18.04.20180207.2-0ubuntu1) … Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index… Processing triggers for mime-support (3.60ubuntu1) … Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.3-2ubuntu0.1) … Errors were encountered while processing: google-chrome-stable
To fix this error, use this command
sudo apg-get -f install
Output:
dhani@dhani-virtual-machine:~/Downloads$ sudo apt-get -f install Reading package lists… Done Building dependency tree Reading state information… Done Correcting dependencies… Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: gir1.2-vte-2.91 libido3-0.1-0 Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them. The following additional packages will be installed: fonts-liberation The following NEW packages will be installed: fonts-liberation 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 47 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 822 kB of archives. After this operation, 2,139 kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y Get:1 http://jp.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main amd64 fonts-liberation all 1:1.07.4-7~18.04.1 [822 kB] Fetched 822 kB in 6s (127 kB/s) Selecting previously unselected package fonts-liberation. (Reading database … 141377 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack …/fonts-liberation_1%3a1.07.4-7~18.04.1_all.deb … Unpacking fonts-liberation (1:1.07.4-7~18.04.1) … Setting up fonts-liberation (1:1.07.4-7~18.04.1) … Setting up google-chrome-stable (79.0.3945.88-1) … update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/google-chrome-stable to provide /usr/bin/x-www-browser (x-www-browser) in auto mode update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/google-chrome-stable to provide /usr/bin/gnome-www-browser (gnome-www-browser) in auto mode update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/google-chrome-stable to provide /usr/bin/google-chrome (google-chrome) in auto mode Processing triggers for fontconfig (2.12.6-0ubuntu2) …
Now Google Chrome should works properly.
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