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Google Chrome Alpha on Ubuntu: A step by step installation guide!

March 24th, 2009 | Comments | Posted in Featured, How to, Technology, Ubuntu | 8,469 views |

google-chrome-icon-executiveI use chrome for general purpose browsing on Windows. I mean seriously I don’t see it as a complete browser at least for someone like me who can’t live without extensions. As a result of which my favorite is still Firefox. However, I cannot ignore the utility of this browser. We are going to see how to install this browser on Ubuntu so that you can install and play around with it yourself.

Home page

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/

Description

Chromium is the open-source project behind Google Chrome. We invite you to join us in our effort to help build a safer, faster, and more stable way for all Internet users to experience the web, and to create a powerful platform for developing a new generation of web applications.

Installation

Following is a step by step process to install Google’s Chrome browser (Alpha) on your Ubuntu machine:

1. First you’ll have to add, Google Chrome PPA to your software sources list. To do so go here and select your version of Ubuntu. Once you have selected your version you’ll see the PPAs as follows:

ppachrome

2. To add these to your software sources list, open software sources by going to System > Administration > Software Sources

softwaresources

In the following window click Third-Party Sources and add the following lines one by one clicking the Add.

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
thirdparty

3. The next step in the process is to add the PPA keys for security. To do this open gedit and copy paste the following text and save it on your desktop with some name:

-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: SKS 1.0.10
 
mI0ESaSPtAEEAK1nJtoDZ0ewpOOf0ET6Vp28LqO9mB4ubWjzXyRSbiha5pCvnnSIU1K+7Gzb
t3r0iUV9eKLUmf8pqfF/9kwsoqFqFSCjp+XjUzXsEChcGBWvyfGdTX8ClFfwNxSVLvGSqmdX
gZhs0F8tQB0lPWHGy3VvEt7wG/VHqpcOYpdNYRqxABEBAAG0IExhdW5jaHBhZCBQUEEgZm9y
IGNocm9taXVtLWRhaWx5iLYEEwECACAFAkmkj7QCGwMGCwkIBwMCBBUCCAMEFgIDAQIeAQIX
gAAKCRBam/O7Tl4XtV/2BACs/RTpEWB/NUlluJmp1e6iFoyyfbT+HOD3hg35aQMzbdcmijsA
iY9MvIfZ0YKWyqNUdGpDj5n0bUNO0IcvKBBkOn5o4CiBsMp4DJHdrgJU4S00nAJK00E8I/yA
v+x4C9uOacW3yrzSHs7Hv/vG6Z1Jh+1JrabK13hdhwOL8+aY6Q==
=3GDx
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

Now, we have to import this PPA key. To do so, go to the Authentication Tab in Software sources window and click import key file. Now import the file that you just saved.

ppaauthenticationkey

4. Reload the repository list by clicking Reload.

5. Now all you have to do is to click the following link to install chrome on your Ubuntu machine.

chromium-browser
chromium-browser-dbg
chromium-testsuite
chromium-testsuite-dbg
 python-tlslite

6. Once you have installed the packages to start using chrome go to Applications > Internet > Chromium Web Browser

chromium

Following is how it looks:

chromiunbrowser


Leave a Reply 26370 views, 26 so far today |
  • kishuak
    when i click the chromium browser link in the 5th step, it shows, could not find packaga 'chromium browser'! what am i supposed todo to resolve this?
  • sven
    Good read, thanks. Always looking out for weird and wonderful stuff to read :)
  • Interesting!
  • Hi Prince, I am afraid the package is delivered through channel only and there's no deb package!
  • Immortaly007
    Works flawlessly. Thank you!
  • Prince
    cant i just download the .deb package and install it? just curious mate. hope for a reply. thanks.
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