Chrome won't install

[Beerislife]

I'm testing the latest Kubuntu on an old but reliable machine. So far everything seems OK, except Google Chrome will
not install!

After de-snapping Kubuntu I installed the Falkon browser so I could download the DEB file but after double-clicking
on it and waiting an age I get a "Cannot satisfy dependencies" error!

I should have noted down what was missing but forgot to!

Am I alone in this?

[Schwarzer Kater]

What is the output in Konsole when you sudo dpkg -i chromium_name.deb ?
Perhaps even a simple sudo apt install --fix-broken afterwards could fix it… Otherwise you should at least know what the problem is.

[Beerislife]

Sigh....

Installing it from Konsole worked with no errors! Double clicking on it gives this error:

[srasoul]

Sigh....

Installing it from Konsole worked with no errors! Double clicking on it gives this error:

I leave in iran and i have to use vpn that is not in repo. In 23 kubuntu and mint it was working but gave same error on 24 gdebi fixed it but you have to do it with terminal it does not show up in open with menu.And g debi is available in deb repo in discover.

[kyonides]

I suspect the dependency error is caused by Ubuntu devs who chose to add some t64 suffix to several distro packages. Others like Chrome devs weren't expecting this to ever happen so they have never been able to compile the browser against those libraries.

I downloaded Chromium from this website: https://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/c/chromium/
Yet, I still had to download an additional package, namely libjpeg62-turbo_2.1.5-2_amd64, from Debian because Kubuntu didn't include it.

There's a caveat: you might need to create a file in the /etc/apparmor.d directory and name it chromium.
Here's the one I'm currently using:

# This profile allows everything and only exists to give the
# application a name instead of having the label "unconfined"

abi <abi/4.0>,
include <tunables/global>

profile chromium /usr/lib/chromium/chromium{,-browser} flags=(unconfined) {
userns,

# Site-specific additions and overrides. See local/README for details.
include if exists <local/chromium>
}
​

[claydoh]

I suspect the dependency error is caused by Ubuntu devs

No, Qapt is just old and crusty.
Qapt has had issues handling deps for a package here and there over the years.
I am sort of surprised it is still used, since Discover handles debs well.

[kyonides]

It's curious that you mention qapt but I had issues while trying to install both google chrome and a couple of chromium browsers. And I was using both the GUI and CLI then. That's why I was glad to find a version of chromium packaged as DEB files that really worked on my PC.

[Beerislife]

Next time I boot my test machine I'll remove Qapt and let Discover handle things! I don't know
why it was installed by default!

[Xiao Liu]

Same issue. I can't install Google Chrome in Kubuntu 24.04.
How to solve this problem?

[Schwarzer Kater]

Welcome.

Installing it from Konsole worked with no errors!

Use e.g. sudo dpkg -i …

[Xiao Liu]

Thanks, I am surprised that I can find Chrome in /usr/share/applications, but I can't find Chrome in kubuntu application launcher.
I solved this problem by deteleting /home/xiao/.share/applications and recreate the same folder.

[Schwarzer Kater]

A simple kbuildsycoca5 could have been enough - or logging out and in again - or deleting the caches…
I cannot reproduce this, though, because I don't use Google's spyware browser but an individually configured Brave instead if I need something Chromium-based.