Chrome Browser in Ubuntu 17.04
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While I usually agree, Chrome isn't in the repos, just Chromium. So if you need to install Chrome you can download the .deb and use gdebi, which will pull in all dependencies for you.
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@stacksofplates said in Chrome Browser in Ubuntu 17.04:
While I usually agree, Chrome isn't in the repos, just Chromium. So if you need to install Chrome you can download the .deb and use gdebi, which will pull in all dependencies for you.
You are right, Chromium != Chrome (they just share the same engine).
But one shouldn't use a manually installed browser at all. They are a huge attack surface and should be kept updated, which is hard enough on Linux, but next to impossible for a Linux newcomer who installs a specific version outside of the package managers control.
I think it's much
bettersafer to either add Google's repo for installs and updates (https://www.google.com/linuxrepositories/) or just use Chromium. Either way, installing Chrome via a flat deb is usually a pretty bad idea. -
Installing Google Chrome automatically add the Google repo. So no worries about huge attack surface and it's kept up to date.
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@black3dynamite said in Chrome Browser in Ubuntu 17.04:
Installing Google Chrome automatically add the Google repo. So no worries about huge attack surface and it's kept up to date.
That's what I said.
I just want to make sure that @Lakshmana understands that installing a deb file means: no updates. And that's dangerous.
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@thwr There is no internet in my machine as MTS is not working in the machine.So downloading the file from another machine and installation
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@Lakshmana said in Chrome Browser in Ubuntu 17.04:
@thwr There is no internet in my machine as MTS is not working in the machine.So downloading the file from another machine and installation
Using an alpha future release of Ubuntu for this is definitely not going to make that easy. Why are you doing this in such a hard way?
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What you need to do is download the entire installer either as a DVD ISO or as a repo. Don't try to do all of this one package at a time. You are misunderstanding Ubuntu.
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@scottalanmiller said in Chrome Browser in Ubuntu 17.04:
Why are you doing this in such a hard way?
You seriously have to ask this question?
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@thwr said in Chrome Browser in Ubuntu 17.04:
@stacksofplates said in Chrome Browser in Ubuntu 17.04:
While I usually agree, Chrome isn't in the repos, just Chromium. So if you need to install Chrome you can download the .deb and use gdebi, which will pull in all dependencies for you.
You are right, Chromium != Chrome (they just share the same engine).
But one shouldn't use a manually installed browser at all. They are a huge attack surface and should be kept updated, which is hard enough on Linux, but next to impossible for a Linux newcomer who installs a specific version outside of the package managers control.
I think it's much
bettersafer to either add Google's repo for installs and updates (https://www.google.com/linuxrepositories/) or just use Chromium. Either way, installing Chrome via a flat deb is usually a pretty bad idea.Not that I care about votes / likes / whatever, but -1 for this?
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@thwr said in Chrome Browser in Ubuntu 17.04:
@thwr said in Chrome Browser in Ubuntu 17.04:
@stacksofplates said in Chrome Browser in Ubuntu 17.04:
While I usually agree, Chrome isn't in the repos, just Chromium. So if you need to install Chrome you can download the .deb and use gdebi, which will pull in all dependencies for you.
You are right, Chromium != Chrome (they just share the same engine).
But one shouldn't use a manually installed browser at all. They are a huge attack surface and should be kept updated, which is hard enough on Linux, but next to impossible for a Linux newcomer who installs a specific version outside of the package managers control.
I think it's much
bettersafer to either add Google's repo for installs and updates (https://www.google.com/linuxrepositories/) or just use Chromium. Either way, installing Chrome via a flat deb is usually a pretty bad idea.Not that I care about votes / likes / whatever, but -1 for this?
Ya I don't know why either.
Without a working internet connection, this is going to be very difficult unless you install from the ISO, but even then you might hit dependency issues with 3rd party packages. Chrome is probably the least of your concerns if you can't even get a working network connection.
I'd go back to 16.04/16.10 and see if you can get the internet working on that first.
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First thing you should do is drop 17.04 since it is still alpha, and start using either 16.04 or 16.10, as @stacksofplates recommends, get you base system ready and then start installing your desired third-party applications.
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@Romo Ok I will try
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@Lakshmana said in Chrome Browser in Ubuntu 17.04:
@Romo Ok I will try
And download that full DVD, it'll make things SO much easier.
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@scottalanmiller Full DVD means all iso in the ubuntu page?
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@scottalanmiller Whether the same issue will occur in Ubuntu 16.10 OS.The reinstallation proceesss?
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@Lakshmana said in Chrome Browser in Ubuntu 17.04:
@scottalanmiller Full DVD means all iso in the ubuntu page?
After a quick glance at the alternate downloads for Ubuntu, it doesn't appear that they have an "Everything DVD" like Debian provides.
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@travisdh1 said in Chrome Browser in Ubuntu 17.04:
@Lakshmana said in Chrome Browser in Ubuntu 17.04:
@scottalanmiller Full DVD means all iso in the ubuntu page?
After a quick glance at the alternate downloads for Ubuntu, it doesn't appear that they have an "Everything DVD" like Debian provides.
Ya you would probably have to make a local repo for everything. Never done it on Ubuntu, but it's relatively easy with RHEL.
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Ubuntu never makes things easy, does it.
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@Lakshmana said in Chrome Browser in Ubuntu 17.04:
@scottalanmiller Whether the same issue will occur in Ubuntu 16.10 OS.The reinstallation proceesss?
Possible. But at least it is stable, supported and known. 17.04 isn't ready to be used at all yet.
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I am with the crowd, use 16.10.
