I am trying to install Chrome on my system but instead of installing it says 'reinstall' and never actually opens or loads. This is also the case when I try to install Flash Player - I can see the file in software centre but it doesn't actually install.

Sorry I am very new to Ubuntu.

My laptop has the following processor:

Intel® Pentium(R) M processor 1.70GHz
748.3mb RAM

Thank you

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4 Answers

To install google chrome Either download from PPA or using .deb

PPA

Using terminal. run those commands, you can open termianl by searching from dash or keyboard shortcut CTRL+Alt+t

wget -q -O - | sudo apt-key add -
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb [arch=amd64] stable main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google.list'
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install google-chrome-stable

using .deb

wget
sudo dpkg –i google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb

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How are you trying to install it? I recommend running this command from a terminal:

sudo apt-get install google-chrome-stable

Try and totally remove chrome using the following code

sudo apt-get --purge remove google-chrome-stable

You also need to delete or rename /home/your_name/.config/google-chrome (.config is hidden. You'll need to press ctrl+H to see it)

then finally run this in your terminal to install chrome, as found on the following link

if [[ $(getconf LONG_BIT) = "64" ]]
then echo "64bit Detected" && echo "Installing Google Chrome" && wget && sudo dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb && rm -f google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
else echo "32bit Detected" && echo "Installing Google Chrome" && wget && sudo dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb && rm -f google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb
fi

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GO to google chrome site and download, save file in downloads. Do not let it open in software center yet. GO to downloads and right click on the chrome downloaded file and select let program run as install (Executable) . Close that and double click the file, should open software center and install.

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