How to install Google-chrome V 66.0 on Linux Mint 18.03

To install Google Chrome 66.0 on Linux Mint 18.03

Google Chrome is a freeware web browser developed by Google and it was first released in September 2008. it is one of the most popular browsers and used by millions of users. Although it was initially developed for Microsoft Windows, it was later ported to the most operating system such as Linux, macOS, iOS, and Android.

Installing Google Chrome 66.0

First, we have to download the Google signing key.

linuxhelp ~ # wget -q -O - https://dl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | sudo apt-key add -
OK 

And then we have to add the repository of Google-chrome.

linuxhelp ~ # echo " deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main"  | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list
deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main

Before starting your installation you should update our system repository.

linuxhelp ~ # apt-get update 
Ign:1 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease
Get:2 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable Release [1,189 B]                      
Get:3 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable Release.gpg [819 B]                                 
Get:4 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable/main amd64 Packages [1,351 B]                       
Ign:5 http://packages.linuxmint.com sylvia InRelease                                                   
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Get:14 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/universe i386 Packages [299 kB]
Get:15 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/universe Translation-en [129 kB]
Get:16 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 Packages [765 kB]
Get:17 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main i386 Packages [706 kB]
Get:18 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe amd64 Packages [623 kB]                
Get:19 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe i386 Packages [574 kB]                 
Fetched 3,748 kB in 8s (446 kB/s)                                                                      
Reading package lists... Done

Now we can install the Google-chrome application using the following command.

linuxhelp ~ # apt-get -y install google-chrome-stable
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Recommended packages:
  libu2f-udev
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  google-chrome-stable
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 318 not upgraded.
Need to get 52.2 MB of archives.
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Setting up google-chrome-stable (66.0.3359.117-1) ...
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

if you want to check the check the version of Google-chrome you can make use of the following command.

linuxhelp ~ # google-chrome --version
Google Chrome 66.0.3359.117

After installation, you can access the application from the menu.

The application is opened now and looks similar as shown in the image

With this, the method to install Google Chrome 66.0 on Linux Mint 18.03 comes to an end.