I think I have fixed the post now:

I have installed Google chrome v 77.0.3865.10 (Official Build) dev (64-bit)
>> in Debian buster.
>>
>> It's not chromium.  If that is still OK I did as follows:
>>
>> Go here and download the dev channel version of chrome:
>>
>> https://www.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel
>>
>> You should see a file like this in your download directory:
>>
>> google-chrome-unstable_current_amd64.deb
>>
>> then install gdebi.
>>
>> Now run
>> gdebi google-chrome-unstable_current_amd64.deb
>>
>> You will get a res
>>
>
> Should say "You will get a result like this:"
>
>>
>> Do you want to install the software package? [y/N]:y
>> /usr/bin/gdebi:113: FutureWarning: Possible nested set at position 1
>>   c = findall("[[(](\S+)/\S+[])]", msg)[0].lower()
>> dpkg: warning: 'ldconfig' not found in PATH or not executable
>> dpkg: warning: 'start-stop-daemon' not found in PATH or not executable
>> dpkg: error: 2 expected programs not found in PATH or not executable
>> Note: root's PATH should usually contain /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin and
>> /sbin
>>
>> Then run
>>
>> echo $PATH
>>
>
> In my case it listed a bunch of path entries except one that I added with
> the next command:
>
>>
>> Then run
>>
>> export PATH="$PATH:/sbin"
>>
>> Then run
>> gdebi google-chrome-unstable_current_amd64.deb
>>
>> This will cure the pesky dpkg PATH errors
>>
>
> You will still get a future warning IIRC but it's not critical it would
> seem:
>

I missed the last piece in the last post:

then run

/usr/bin/google-chrome-unstable as user

and it should start up OK.

Posting this stuff here was harder than installing chrome 77 itself it
seems......

Regards

MF

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