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So I understand that the "right way" to get google chrome is to simply hit the button to download and install it from their web page. That said I like the idea of having all my basic setup requirements in a script so that if I ever have to start on a fresh install of Ubuntu I can simply run that script and have all my favorite software. That said when I took the bash commands listed here and put them in a script (as seen below) running the script as sudo user did not result in google-chrome-stable installing... What gives?

wget -q -O - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | sudo apt-key add -
sh -c 'echo "deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list'
apt-get update 
apt-get install google-chrome-stable -y

I ran the script by typing it's fully qualified location into the terminal.

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kpie
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  • How did you run your script? What commands did you use to run it? You could be missing a shebang in your script. – edwinksl Sep 23 '16 at 08:09
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    What happened when you ran the command? What errors did you see? Please [edit] your question and clarify. And why are you using sh -c ' echo . .. instead of just echo ...? – terdon Sep 23 '16 at 08:36
  • try wget --no-check-certificate -q -O - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | apt-key add - && \ – Mellester Aug 02 '21 at 13:23

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Try this.

cd /tmp
wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb

If you get errors, use sudo apt-get -f install

Mustafa Yılmaz
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  • The trouble is that I have already installed it at this point by jsut bashing the commands through terminal rather than running the script, I am really just trying to better understand why it didn't work as is. The Nuances between writing something line by line into the terminal and having the same the verbatim in a script are still a bit beyond me. Thanks for the input though! I'm curious, why do you think changing directory would help? I didn't think any of those commands were sensitive with the present working dir... – kpie Sep 23 '16 at 08:05
  • What error did your script give? How did you run it? Can't give much thought without knowing those.

    I didn't realize that you were trying to install it via script, my answer was for classic shell installation.

     – Mustafa Yılmaz Sep 23 '16 at 08:21
  • No errors, I ran it and nothing happened. – kpie Sep 23 '16 at 08:34