How to update Chrome in Ubuntu 20.04

What is the right way to update chrome on Ubuntu 20.04. My installation was with .deb file

I started getting update chrome warning messages on my chrome now. I do not want to uninstall and then reinstall to save my bookmarks and saved credentials.

is Google Sync a safe option for this?

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3 Answers

These are a couple of ways to update Google Chrome on Ubuntu 20.04 when the installation is done through the .deb file:

1. Open Software Updater. Select and install the available Google Chrome update.
2. Through Terminal. Type sudo apt-get update and then sudo apt-get --only-upgrade install google-chrome-stable.

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Hope this helps

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

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context: you've already installed Chrome and can't seem to update it - where the command line tells you that you already have the latest, Chrome keeps complaining you need to update - and when you relaunch Chrome it fails to update.

Try the following...

Check /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list

If it looks like this:

### THIS FILE IS AUTOMATICALLY CONFIGURED ###
# You may comment out this entry, but any other modifications may be lost.
# deb [arch=amd64] stable main

uncomment the last line, so that it looks like this:

### THIS FILE IS AUTOMATICALLY CONFIGURED ###
# You may comment out this entry, but any other modifications may be lost.
deb [arch=amd64] stable main

Then do:

sudo apt update

And then:

sudo apt-get --only-upgrade install google-chrome-stable

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