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How to install Google Chrome on PearOS 8

This quick tutorial is going to show you how to install Google Chrome on PearOS 8. Google Chrome 30.0 is now available for Linux users. To install Google Chrome on PearOS 8 is very simple. Please read the following steps to get Google Chrome installed.
Step 1. Install libxss1
Google Chrome requires libxss1 to work. So we need to install this package first before installing Google Chrome package.
sudo apt-get install libxss1

Step 2. Download Google Chrome DEB package from here.  Make sure you download the correct architecture for your system.
Step 3. Install Google Chrome
sudo dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb
Once finished, Google Chrome should be available on Launchpad.

Comments :

2 comments to “How to install Google Chrome on PearOS 8”

Lucas said... on 

This error show when i try this.
dpkg: error processing google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb (--install):
cannot access archive: No such file or directory
Errors were encountered while processing:
google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb

Fitri said... on 

Hi Lucas, make sure you've downloaded the Google Chrome .deb package from the link I gave you. Also make sure you execute the command in the same directory with the package. execute this command first: cd /your_download_directory