[lug] Issue updating google chrome

[Davide Del Vento]

I use Chromium too (and Firefox also), but that is for different purposes.
I wish I did not need them all, but life is complicated.

Anyway, the problem was this one
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1078813/the-repository-http-dl-google-com-linux-chrome-deb-stable-release-does-not-h
which when solved exposed this other one
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1173427/how-to-update-google-chrome-past-v70
When that was fixed too, Chrome updated and the problem with that website
disappeared.

The idiot GUI who manages updates NEVER says anything about these
problems..... Days like this let me miss the good ole days when you could
get things done without X (back then I used pine as an email client... but
I digress)


On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 11:27 AM David L. Willson <dlwillson at thegeek.nu>
wrote:

> 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 <
> 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/ (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
>>
>> *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/ 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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