Google chrome installation error on stretch !

[berjani]

I am using Debian 9 with Gnome desktop and tried to install chrome but i get below error. How can i install chrome successfully?

• XXX@dell:~$ wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/goog ... _amd64.deb
  --2017-08-14 12:05:58-- https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/goog ... _amd64.deb
  Resolving dl.google.com (dl.google.com)... 172.217.18.78, 2a00400d:808::200e
  Connecting to dl.google.com (dl.google.com)|172.217.18.78|:443... connected.
  HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
  Length: 58348198 (56M) [application/x-debian-package]
  Saving to: ‘google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb’
  
  google-chrome-stabl 100%[===================>] 55.64M 1.22MB/s in 47s
  
  2017-08-14 12:06:46 (1.17 MB/s) - ‘google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb’ saved [58348198/58348198]
  
  XXX@dell:~$ sudo dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
  [sudo] password for XXX:
  Selecting previously unselected package google-chrome-stable.
  (Reading database ... 131198 files and directories currently installed.)
  Preparing to unpack google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb ...
  Unpacking google-chrome-stable (60.0.3112.90-1) ...
  dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of google-chrome-stable:
  google-chrome-stable depends on gconf-service; however:
  Package gconf-service is not installed.
  google-chrome-stable depends on libgconf-2-4 (>= 3.2.5); however:
  Package libgconf-2-4 is not installed.
  google-chrome-stable depends on libappindicator1; however:
  Package libappindicator1 is not installed.
  
  dpkg: error processing package google-chrome-stable (--install):
  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
  Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.6.1-2) ...
  Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-9) ...
  Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.23-1) ...
  Processing triggers for mime-support (3.60) ...
  Errors were encountered while processing:
  google-chrome-stable

[kopper]

Just in case, have you considered installing Chromium instead, or is there a specific reason to use Chrome instead? I'd really advise you to use software found in official Debian repositories (i.e. not downloading .deb packages) when possible. You can install Chromium with:

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apt-get install chromium

Error you're encountering refers to missing dependencies. You can run below command to install missing packages, though I'd strongly suggest you to go with option described above.

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apt-get install -f

[None1975]

This is because dpkg not intelligently resolved dependencies. You can manualy download google chrome deb package from google chrome site ant install it with Gdebi. Gdebi lets you install local deb packages resolving and installing its dependencies.

[kedaha]

Hi,
I too recommend Debian packages, not from third-party sources.
However, if the package still doesn't get installed, post what the following commands show in your user terminal (wrapped in code blocks, please):

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apt-cache policy gconf-service libgconf-2-4 libappindicator1
aptitude install --simulate gconf-service libgconf-2-4 libappindicator1
aptitude install --simulate chromium

[berjani]

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apt-get install -f

This command fixed the issue, Thank you all for your time.

[stevepusser]

You can also now just use the apt command in Stretch instead of gdebi to install a standalone deb and pull in missing dependencies.

[VentGrey]

A word to the wise tho, if you learn dpkg correctly you can also learn how to use gebi (cli), it installs dependencies automatically and does a lot more like checking lintian outputs, etc, etc.