Re: need google chrome installation instructions that work

2018-11-23 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 10:07:51AM -0600, David Wright wrote: > It works fine for me, as shown by the output below. However, I notice > there's a line: > > Note, selecting 'xtoolwait' instead of ' … … /xtoolwait_1.3-6.2_amd64.deb' Yeah, my own tests always gave me that too, so I decided not to

Re: need google chrome installation instructions that work

2018-11-22 Thread David Wright
On Wed 21 Nov 2018 at 11:44:02 (-0800), Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Wed, 21 Nov 2018 11:21:15 -0500 > Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 08:02:23AM -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > I use gdebi (it's in the repos) to install locally saved .deb files. > > > Apt-get won't install

Re: need google chrome installation instructions that work

2018-11-22 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 11/21/18, Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Wed, 21 Nov 2018 11:21:15 -0500 > Greg Wooledge wrote: > >> On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 08:02:23AM -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: >> > I use gdebi (it's in the repos) to install locally saved .deb files. >> > Apt-get won't install local files, that is, not in a

Re: need google chrome installation instructions that work

2018-11-21 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Wed, 21 Nov 2018 11:21:15 -0500 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 08:02:23AM -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > I use gdebi (it's in the repos) to install locally saved .deb files. > > Apt-get won't install local files, that is, not in a repo. > > Yes, it will. But you have to

Re: need google chrome installation instructions that work

2018-11-21 Thread Robert Crawford
On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 7:46 AM Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 04:44:14AM -0500, Felix Miata wrote: > > It seems Curt's instructions to use dpkg to install the downloaded deb > > resulted in > > creation of /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list containing > > > > deb

Re: need google chrome installation instructions that work

2018-11-21 Thread Felix Miata
Greg Wooledge composed on 2018-11-21 11:50 (UTC-0500): > On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 11:31:53AM -0500, Felix Miata wrote: >> I did try ./google-chrome... but apt wouldn't find it. > In stretch, right? What was the exact command you used, and the exact > output? Sorry, I thought I had, but NAICT

Re: need google chrome installation instructions that work

2018-11-21 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 11:31:53AM -0500, Felix Miata wrote: > I did try ./google-chrome... but apt wouldn't find it. In stretch, right? What was the exact command you used, and the exact output?

Re: need google chrome installation instructions that work

2018-11-21 Thread Felix Miata
Greg Wooledge composed on 2018-11-21 11:21 (UTC-0500): > On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 08:02:23AM -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: >> I use gdebi (it's in the repos) to install locally saved .deb files. >> Apt-get won't install local files, that is, not in a repo. > Yes, it will. But you have to supply

Re: need google chrome installation instructions that work

2018-11-21 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 08:02:23AM -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: > I use gdebi (it's in the repos) to install locally saved .deb files. > Apt-get won't install local files, that is, not in a repo. Yes, it will. But you have to supply the filename with a leading / or ./ or ../ prefix. sudo

Re: need google chrome installation instructions that work

2018-11-21 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Wed, 21 Nov 2018 03:30:26 -0500 Felix Miata wrote: > (Stretch) > Downloading Chrome is easy. Installing is not. The download page says > "download and install", > but all that happens is firefox fetches, and no auto install via apt* or dpkg > is attempted. Apt > and aptitude won't install

Re: need google chrome installation instructions that work

2018-11-21 Thread Dejan Jocic
On 21-11-18, Felix Miata wrote: > john doe composed on 2018-11-21 10:06 (UTC+0100): > > > Felix Miata wrote: > > >> (Stretch) > >> Downloading Chrome is easy. Installing is not. The download page says > >> "download and install", > >> but all that happens is firefox fetches, and no auto install

Re: need google chrome installation instructions that work

2018-11-21 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 04:44:14AM -0500, Felix Miata wrote: > It seems Curt's instructions to use dpkg to install the downloaded deb > resulted in > creation of /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list containing > > deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main >

Re: need google chrome installation instructions that work

2018-11-21 Thread rhkramer
One suggestion (and, yes, I'm intentionally top posting) -- why don't you repost you're reply with: * the Subject changed to say Solved (was: need G...) * Top post the solution in as concise a fashion as you can -- my first feeble partial attempt: "I had trouble installing Google

Re: need google chrome installation instructions that work

2018-11-21 Thread tomas
On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 04:44:14AM -0500, Felix Miata wrote: [...] > It seems Curt's instructions to use dpkg to install the downloaded deb > resulted in > creation of /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list containing > > deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable

Re: need google chrome installation instructions that work

2018-11-21 Thread Felix Miata
Curt composed on 2018-11-21 09:15 (UTC): > Felix Miata wrote: >> (Stretch) >> Downloading Chrome is easy. Installing is not. The download page says >> "download and install", >> but all that happens is firefox fetches, and no auto install via apt* or >> dpkg is attempted. Apt >> and aptitude

Re: need google chrome installation instructions that work

2018-11-21 Thread Felix Miata
john doe composed on 2018-11-21 10:06 (UTC+0100): > Felix Miata wrote: >> (Stretch) >> Downloading Chrome is easy. Installing is not. The download page says >> "download and install", >> but all that happens is firefox fetches, and no auto install via apt* or >> dpkg is attempted. Apt >> and

Re: need google chrome installation instructions that work

2018-11-21 Thread Curt
On 2018-11-21, Felix Miata wrote: > (Stretch) > Downloading Chrome is easy. Installing is not. The download page says > "download and install", > but all that happens is firefox fetches, and no auto install via apt* or dpkg > is attempted. Apt > and aptitude won't install the local file because

Re: need google chrome installation instructions that work

2018-11-21 Thread john doe
On 11/21/2018 9:30 AM, Felix Miata wrote: > (Stretch) > Downloading Chrome is easy. Installing is not. The download page says > "download and install", > but all that happens is firefox fetches, and no auto install via apt* or dpkg > is attempted. Apt > and aptitude won't install the local file

need google chrome installation instructions that work

2018-11-21 Thread Felix Miata
(Stretch) Downloading Chrome is easy. Installing is not. The download page says "download and install", but all that happens is firefox fetches, and no auto install via apt* or dpkg is attempted. Apt and aptitude won't install the local file because it "isn't found". The