Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, Google Chrome 39 has been recently released, coming with a bunch of changes for all the platforms. Among others, it comes with support for new apps and extensions APIs, a bunch of stability changes and 42 security fixes.
In this article I will show you how to install Google Chrome 39 Stable on Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Pinguy OS, Elementary OS, LXLE, Linux Lite, Peppermint, Deepin, Debian, Crunchbang, SparkyLinux, Fedora, CentOS, OpenSUSE, Mageia and OpenMandriva.
Follow the instructions for your system and architecture exactly, in order to get a successful installation:
How to install Chrome 39 Stable on Ubuntu, Debian and derivative systems:
Instructions for bot 32 bit and 64 bit systems:
$ sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google.list'
$ wget -q -O - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | sudo apt-key add -
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install google-chrome-stable
Optional, to remove Chrome 39 stable, from both 32 bit and 64 bit systems, do:
$ sudo apt-get remove google-chrome-stable
How to install Chrome 39 Stable on Fedora and CentOS systems:
Instructions for 32 bit systems:
$ sudo sh -c 'echo -e "[google-chrome]\nname=google-chrome - 32-bit\nbaseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/i386\nenabled=1\ngpgcheck=1\ngpgkey=https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub" >> /etc/yum.repos.d/google-chrome.repo'
$ sudo yum update
$ yum install google-chrome-stable
Instructions for 64 bit systems:
$ sudo sh -c 'echo -e "[google-chrome]\nname=google-chrome - 64-bit\nbaseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/x86_64\nenabled=1\ngpgcheck=1\ngpgkey=https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub" >> /etc/yum.repos.d/google-chrome.repo'
$ sudo yum update
$ yum install google-chrome-stable
Optional, to remove Chrome 39 stable, from both 32 bit and 64 bit systems, do:
$ sudo yum remove google-chrome-stable
How to install Chrome 39 Unstable on OpenSUSE systems:
Instructions for 32 bit systems:
$ sudo zypper ar http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/i386 Google-Chrome
$ sudo zypper refresh
$ sudo zypper install google-chrome-stable
Instructions for 64 bit systems:
$ sudo zypper ar http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/x86_64 Google-Chrome
$ sudo zypper refresh
$ sudo zypper install google-chrome-stable
Optional, to remove Chrome 39 stable, from both 32 bit and 64 bit systems, do:
$ sudo zypper remove google-chrome-stable
How to install Chrome 39 Unstable on Mageia and OpenMandriva systems:
Instructions for 32 bit systems:
$ sudo rpm --import https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub
$ sudo urpmi.addmedia --update chrome_i386 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/i386
$ sudo urpmi google-chrome-stable
Instructions for 64 bit systems:
$ sudo rpm --import https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub
$ sudo urpmi.addmedia --update chrome_x86_64 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/x86_64
$ sudo urpmi google-chrome-stable
Optional, to remove Chrome 38 stable, from both 32 bit and 64 bit systems, do:
$ sudo urmpe google-chrome-stable