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I have installed the 14.04 LTS in clean. then I use wget the chrome.deb for 64 bit from Google and dpkg -i *.deb to install the chrome in my Ubuntu 14.04,however I can't launch it and get errors as below, could you please help me to solve this problem?

$ google-chrome
[2697:2697:0616/211443:ERROR:process_singleton_linux.cc(394)] readlink failed: no authority
[2697:2697:0616/211443:ERROR:process_singleton_linux.cc(240)] readlink(/home/frank/.config/google-chrome/SingletonLock) failed: no authority
[2697:2697:0616/211443:ERROR:process_singleton_linux.cc(240)] readlink(/home/frank/.config/google-chrome/SingletonLock) failed: no authority
[2697:2697:0616/211443:ERROR:process_singleton_linux.cc(264)] Failed to create /home/frank/.config/google-chrome/SingletonLock: no authority
[2697:2697:0616/211443:ERROR:process_singleton_linux.cc(394)] readlink failed: no authority
[2697:2697:0616/211443:ERROR:process_singleton_linux.cc(240)] readlink(/home/frank/.config/google-chrome/SingletonLock) failed: no authority
[2697:2697:0616/211443:ERROR:chrome_browser_main.cc(1209)] Failed to create a ProcessSingleton for your profile directory. This means that running multiple instances would start multiple browser processes rather than opening a new window in the existing process. Aborting now to avoid profile corruption.
Avinash Raj
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Correct the ownership, assuming frank is your username:

chown -R frank:frank /home/frank

and the permissions for all folders:

find /home/frank -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 775

775 - These are the default permissions when you create a new folder.

A.B.
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  1. Open a terminal and run sudo -i nautilus

  2. Press Ctrl + H

  3. Navigate to .config/ and right click on google-chrome. Select permissions, and ensure you are the owner.

  4. Run chrome.

Tim
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Mark
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I run 14.04 x64 and it works just fine, from the repos. I personally prefer to install programs from repos, since it's much easier to remember to update it. Delete the google-chrome you have now, and install it from Google's repos(taken from http://www.ubuntuupdates.org/ppa/google_chrome)

Setup the key with:

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

Enable the repo with:

sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google.list'

Then update the repos with:

sudo apt-get update

Then finally install Google Chrome with: 

sudo apt-get install google-chrome-stable

Alternatively you could install the beta with

sudo apt-get install google-chrome-beta

Or the unstable with:

sudo apt-get install google-chrome-unstable
Promille
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