Thursday, March 12, 2026

Debian 13: installing google chrome

google chrome system requirements for debian

  • Release: Debian 10+
  • Processor: Intel Pentium 4 or later that is SSE3 capable 64-bit
  • RAM: 2GB is a minimum in some contexts, 4GB or more is recommended.
  • Storage: At least 16GB, though 32GB or more is recommended for optimal performance. 

 Download key 

~# wget -q -O - https://dl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | sudo tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/google.asc >/dev/null
~# ls /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/ | grep google
google.asc
google-chrome.gpg

Update repository

~# apt update
Hit:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie-backports InRelease
Hit:2 https://deb.debian.org/debian trixie InRelease   
Hit:3 https://deb.debian.org/debian trixie-updates InRelease
Hit:4 https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease       
Hit:5 https://security.debian.org/debian-security trixie-security InRelease
Hit:6 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian trixie InRelease
All packages are up to date
~# ls /etc/apt/sources.list.d/
google-chrome.list

Installing google chrome stable

~# apt install  google-chrome-stable 
Installing:                     
  google-chrome-stable

Summary:
  Upgrading: 0, Installing: 1, Removing: 0, Not Upgrading: 0
  Download size: 127 MB
  Space needed: 413 MB / 18.9 GB available

Get:1 https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable/main amd64 google-chrome-stable amd64 146.0.7680.71-1 [127 MB]
Fetched 127 MB in 57s (2,254 kB/s)                                             
Selecting previously unselected package google-chrome-stable.
(Reading database ... 189434 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../google-chrome-stable_146.0.7680.71-1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking google-chrome-stable (146.0.7680.71-1) ...
Setting up google-chrome-stable (146.0.7680.71-1) ...
update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/google-chrome-stable to provide /usr/bin/x-w
ww-browser (x-www-browser) in auto mode
update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/google-chrome-stable to provide /usr/bin/gno
me-www-browser (gnome-www-browser) in auto mode
update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/google-chrome-stable to provide /usr/bin/goo
gle-chrome (google-chrome) in auto mode
Processing triggers for man-db (2.13.1-1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.28-1) ...

Done....