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 po

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 local

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 r

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 s

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 fr

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 t

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 apt-get

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 th

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 Chrome

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 wo

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 ap

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 b