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# 1  
Old 10-13-2014
Debian Chrome browser no longer working on my debian lenny 5
Hi All,

My chrome browser was working correctly on my Debian Lenny 5 PC..Today i downloaded the version from google and tried to install the deb from command line as follows:

Code:
dpkg -i <latest-chrome-package>

The installation failed but now my existing old chrome browser is not starting.

I tried a lot of things and eventually found the /opt/google/chrome/ directory is no longer on my system.

the shortcut which launched the browser was
Code:
/opt/google/chrome/google-chrome %U

Please help me install and run this again.
# 2  
Old 10-13-2014
How was the old browser installed? Part of the Debian install or installed afterwards?

Can you not reinstall the original version again?
# 3  
Old 10-13-2014
Debian
it was installed afterwards.
but i dont remember if i had installed using dpkg -i or using apt-get install.

I just tried the following:

Code:
my-debian:/# dpkg -l | grep chrome

below are the outputs
Code:
rc  google-chrome-stable                 38.0.2125.101-1                      The web browser from Google
ii  xserver-xorg-video-openchrome        1:0.2.902+svn579-4                   X.Org X server -- VIA display driver

i tried to remove but could not:

Code:
my-debian:/# apt-get remove google-chrome-stable
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package google-chrome-stable is not installed, so not removed
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 149 not upgraded.

---------- Post updated at 04:45 PM ---------- Previous update was at 02:28 PM ----------

I managed to get it working finally Smilie Am Happy

This document is a life saver.

Chrome Version 12 is the latest version supported on Debian Lenny.

The required deb packages are:

Code:
google-chrome-stable_12.0.742.112-r90304_amd64.deb

- if you have 64bit

or

Code:
google-chrome-stable_12.0.742.112-r90304_i386.deb

- if you have 32bit

The link given on the above page does not work so you need to google for "google-chrome-stable_12.0.742.112-r90304_i386.deb"

The package installation went very nicely without any errors or complaints:

Code:
my-debian:/home/my/Downloads# dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_12.0.742.112-r90304_i386.deb 
Selecting previously deselected package google-chrome-stable.
(Reading database ... 117354 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking google-chrome-stable (from google-chrome-stable_12.0.742.112-r90304_i386(1).deb) ...
Setting up google-chrome-stable (12.0.742.112-r90304) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for menu ...

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