[lug] Issue updating google chrome

[David L. Willson]

Consider trying chromium. It's in the main repos, and it's up-to-date. 

``` 
$ docker run -it ubuntu:18.04 
... 
root at c38b6cf4101f:/# apt update && apt search chromium 
... 
chromium-browser/bionic-updates,bionic-security 84.0.4147.105-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 amd64 
``` 


From: "Jonathan Eidsness" <jonathan.eidsness at gmail.com> 
To: "BLUG" <lug at lug.boulder.co.us> 
Sent: Monday, August 31, 2020 11:01:36 AM 
Subject: Re: [lug] Issue updating google chrome 

I remember dealing with an issue similar to this a while ago on fedora. I think they may have changed the package name for the stable builds. 

The fix for me involved either installing the new package name or downloading the rpm from Google again and installing from there. 

On Mon, Aug 31, 2020, 10:50 AM Davide Del Vento < [ mailto:davide.del.vento at gmail.com | davide.del.vento at gmail.com ] > wrote: 



On my Linux Desktop I've been experiencing a problem with a website (which I need for work) and I think I triaged the problem to my Google Chrome being at Version 70.0.3538.67 (Official Build) (64-bit) whereas according to [ https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/ | https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/ ] (and other sources) I should be at least at 84. 

According to [ https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95414?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en | https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95414?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en ] 

Linux users: To update Google Chrome, use your package manager. 

which is what I've always done and has worked well in the past (I clearly remember it updating in the past). Obviously this stopped quite a while ago without me noticing, since I am at 70 and not a number closer to 84. 

Checking the settings for my package manager it contains and has the checkbox tick for 
[ http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ | http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ ] main 

and when I launch the update, it says that everything is up to date. I am running Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS. 

Any clues on what might be wrong? 

Thanks, 
Davide 


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