What command should I type to run Chrome from the terminal?

Question

I have remote box accessed by VNC and jwm desktop.
No menus, not desktop icons, only a terminal window.

I have downloaded Chrome's .deb package and installed it.

How can I run it from the terminal window?

You might be interested in this generalised question: How can I know which commands were installed with a package? — Flimm, Dec 31 '12 at 16:00
What do you mean what command should you run? If you're vnc'd in, just call the command by the name. If you don't know the name you can always run x-www-browser and it'll run the default browser. — Evan Carroll, Nov 23 '18 at 21:33

score 148 · Answer 1 · edited Mar 15 '18 at 13:55

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Well simply typing google-chrome works fine for me. It might not work if you installed Chromium. chromium-browser is for Chromium.

For Chrome:
```
google-chrome
```
For Chromium:
```
chromium-browser
```

However if it's a remote box... At least via ssh you must use -X when option connecting to be able to run windowed apps. Like this:

ssh -X username@server.lt

edited Mar 15 '18 at 13:55

galoget

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answered Dec 31 '12 at 13:04

Karolis

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google-chrome-stable may also be the command. – Dodgie Mar 07 '16 at 06:35
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chromium is command in Ubuntu 22.04 – Nasimuddin Ansari Apr 23 '22 at 01:14
google-chrome-unstable if you have download an unstable version such as Dev or Canary – Jono Oct 26 '22 at 08:24

score 22 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 23 '13 at 19:46

If you get the path where the application is installed then you can run the application from there

For example to know the path where google-chrome is located run this command:

whereis google-chrome

You will get the path like:

google-chrome: /usr/bin/google-chrome /usr/bin/X11/google-chrome /usr/share/man/man1/google-chrome.1

Now you can run chrome by either executing two commands:

/usr/bin/google-chrome
/usr/bin/X11/google-chrome

Note: it will be applied for all installed applications. Also, It would be possible that you would not get the path /usr/bin/X11 or would get something different.

Hope you like this way to find the path and run chrome :)

score 8 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 20 '16 at 06:52

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In Ubuntu 15.10 this command works very well

google-chrome www.google.com

for more options you can use

google-chrome --help

answered Apr 20 '16 at 06:52

killer_bee

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score 3 · Answer 4 · answered Apr 20 '16 at 07:30

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Type

google-chrome-stable

I use this command and it works for me. I too installed it using the .deb package. So this should work for you too. Typing an url after the command opens the url.

answered Apr 20 '16 at 07:30

Kevin Selva Prasanna

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ASIL · Answer 5 · 2018-02-01T15:42:43.357

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Enter to opengoogle-chrome, and exit google-chrome to close the Chrome browser

edited Feb 01 '18 at 15:42

answered Jul 11 '16 at 01:23

ASIL

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What command should I type to run Chrome from the terminal?

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