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Chrome says I should update but apt-get says I have the latest version. When I run "sudo apt-get --only-upgrade install google-chrome-stable" I get "google-chrome-stable is already the newest version (90.0.4430.93-1)." I am running Ubuntu 20.04. How can I stop the Google nag screen to update?

Paul Miller
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  • Does this answer your question? How to install Google Chrome as the latest Chrome version is 92.0.4515.107-1, so you have disabled Google's repository. – N0rbert Jul 24 '21 at 07:19
  • Does this answer your question? How to install Google Chrome – karel Jul 27 '21 at 00:58
  • I'm having this issue as well, although apt tells me that I have 90.0.4430.212-1 and claims that it is the latest version. I'm assuming that the google-chrome-stable package hasn't been updated to match Google's latest release. Also, when I click on "Update" in the browser, and then "Chrome is out of date", I get "Can't update Chrome" and a suggestion to "Reinstall Chrome" – Brian Borchers Jul 31 '21 at 22:59
  • I'm having the same issue Brian describes – Mark Aug 22 '21 at 02:23
  • It's a month later, and I'm still having this problem on one of my 20.04 machines. However, ubuntu's google-chrome-stable has updated to 92.0.4515.159-1 on my other 20.04 machines and won't upgrade on this machine. – Brian Borchers Aug 30 '21 at 23:52

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I'm on Ubuntu 20.04 as well and apt show google-chrome-stable didn't find anything. That probably means that you installed Chrome from a third party apt repository which contains an outdated version of Chrome, or manually from a .deb file.

If you don't mind snaps you can install the latest, stable Chromium (92.0.4515.107) with sudo snap install chromium.

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  • paul@CarolineEycks:~$ apt show google-chrome-stable Package: google-chrome-stable Version: 90.0.4430.93-1 Status: install ok installedpaul@CarolineEycks:~$ sudo snap install chromium [sudo] password for paul: snap "chromium" is already installed, see 'snap help refresh' – Paul Miller Jul 24 '21 at 20:10
  • Ok, so you have installed both versions of Chrome. Try to launch Chromium instead of Google Chrome. You can just search for it in the activities overview. If Chromium is outdated as well, run sudo snap refresh. – MWin123 Jul 25 '21 at 16:12