How to Install or Upgrade Google Chrome 63 on Linux Mint 18.3

To Install or Upgrade Google Chrome 63 on Linux Mint 18.3

Ever since Google Chrome 63 was released last December, it has been slowly gaining momentum.   It is a freeware web browser developed by Google Inc which is why it is one of the most popular browsers and used by millions of users. It is simple to install, or upgrade to Google Chrome 63 and this tutorial covers the method to install/upgrade Google Chrome 63 on Linux Mint 18.3. 

Installing Google Chrome

First, add the Google Chrome repository on your system using the following command

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

Now add the PPA URL to the /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google.list file as per your system architecture.

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

Once it is done, you need to update your repo with the help of the following command. 

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]                            
Hit:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease                                           
Get:5 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable/main amd64 Packages [1,385 B]                  
Ign:6 http://packages.linuxmint.com sylvia InRelease                                              
Hit:7 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease                                
Get:8 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease [102 kB]                     
Get:9 http://packages.linuxmint.com sylvia Release [24.2 kB]                   
Get:10 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease [102 kB]     
Get:11 http://packages.linuxmint.com sylvia Release.gpg [819 B]                                
Get:12 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/main amd64 Packages [437 kB]
Get:13 http://packages.linuxmint.com sylvia/upstream amd64 Packages [45.5 kB]  
Get:14 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease [102 kB]                       
Get:15 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/main i386 Packages [393 kB]
Get:16 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/main Translation-en [190 kB]
Get:17 http://packages.linuxmint.com sylvia/upstream i386 Packages [44.8 kB]          
Get:18 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/universe amd64 Packages [202 kB]
Get:19 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/universe i386 Packages [163 kB]
Get:20 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/universe Translation-en [103 kB]
Get:21 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 Packages [715 kB]
Get:22 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main i386 Packages [665 kB]                
Get:23 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main Translation-en [297 kB]               
Get:24 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe amd64 Packages [582 kB]           
Get:25 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe i386 Packages [540 kB]            
Get:26 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe Translation-en [235 kB]           
Get:27 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports/main amd64 Packages [4,836 B]            
Get:28 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports/main i386 Packages [4,840 B]             
Get:29 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports/universe amd64 Packages [6,628 B]        
Get:30 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports/universe i386 Packages [6,620 B]         
Fetched 4,969 kB in 10s (491 kB/s)                                                                
Reading package lists... Done

If you already have installed an older version, it will upgrade to the currently installed version with recent stable version.

linuxhelp ~ # apt-get install google-chrome-stable
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  google-chrome-stable
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 183 not upgraded.
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me-www-browser) in auto mode
update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/google-chrome-stable to provide /usr/bin/google-chrome (google-chrome) in auto mode

This tutorial comes to an end with this.