2 Ways to Install Google Chrome on Ubuntu 16.04 and Ubuntu 17.10

Then select the first option (64 bit .deb for Debian/Ubuntu), click Accept and Install.

When Firefox asks you how to open this deb file, choose the default option to open it in Ubuntu Software (formerly Ubuntu Software Center).

If you choose the first option, Google Chrome deb package will be downloaded to /tmp/mozilla_$username directory. Once the download is complete, Ubuntu Software will automatically open. Click the Install button to install google-chrome-stable to Ubuntu 16.04/17.10. The version and installation size information can be seen in the Details section. 189.4MB of disk space! That’s huge for a Web browser.

Because software installation on Linux requires root privilege, so you have to enter your password to authenticate.

Once the installation is complete, you can start Chrome browser in the Unity Dash or by typing the following command in the terminal.

google-chrome-stable

Install Google Chrome on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS/Ubuntu 17.10 from the Command Line

For those of you who like to hone their command line skills, here is how to install Google Chrome on Ubuntu 16.04/17.10 using terminal.

Press CTRL+ALT+T to open a terminal window, then edit sources.list file with nano text editor. You need to enter your password.

sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

Use the down arrow key to scroll to the bottom of this file. Copy the following APT line and paste it at the end of the file.

deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main

To save the file in Nano text editor, press Ctrl+O, then press Enter to confirm. Next, press CTRL+X to exit out of this file. After that, enter the following command to download Google’s signing key.

wget https://dl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub

Then use apt-key to add it to your keyring so the package manager can verify the integrity of Google Chrome package.

sudo apt-key add linux_signing_key.pub

Now update package list and install the stable version of Google Chrome.

sudo apt update

sudo apt install google-chrome-stable

If you want to install the beta or unstable version of Google Chrome, use the following commands:

sudo apt install google-chrome-beta

sudo apt install google-chrome-unstable

Google Chrome browser Linux version ships with a built-in flash player called Pepper Flash installed under /opt/google/chrome/PepperFlash directory.

You may see the following warning message when issuing sudo apt update command.

Target Packages (main/binary-amd64/Packages) is configured multiple times

That’s because the Google Chrome package created an APT line in file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list. You can remove the warning message by deleting that file.

sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list