Article Title: Chrome under Ubuntu !. Linux is a technology channel of the IT lab in China. Includes basic categories such as desktop applications, Linux system management, kernel research, embedded systems, and open source.
A few days ago, Google officially announced that Google Chrome for Linux will adopt GTK + for development, and revealed that the relevant version will be released in May. There are three months left. Can you wait? If you are a Ubuntu user, congratulations! As long as the legendary third-party source is enabled, the latest development status of Chrome can be instantly tracked!
1. Enable the third-party source of Chrome
We recommend that you use Ubuntu Tweak's "third-party source" for operations, so that the source and Key will be set at one time.
You may wonder: "I am using the latest Ubuntu Tweak. Why didn't I see Chrome ?" Indeed, I just discovered that Chrome was recently added to a third-party source in Firefox.
Therefore, enable the Firefox source as shown in:
If you plan to manually start, access: https://launchpad.net /~ Fta/+ archive/ppa
Ii. Install Chrome
After enabling and refreshing the source, you can install Chrome. Open the terminal and enter the following command to install Chrome.
Sudo apt-get install chromium-browser
Because it is a PPA source and Chrome is large, please be patient. After installation, you can find it in the application and Internet!
3. Use Chrome
Of course, Chrome is in a very early stage of development, and even Alpha is not.
After it is started, the terminal debugging interface will be enabled at the same time, such:
But its real interface is indeed the same as Chrome on other platforms: is the blue style incompatible with Ubuntu?
Menu item
Unfortunately, this version cannot even open basic web pages, just like Chrome for Mac.
Chrome folder, which occupies about 40 MB of space.
Although Chrome for Linux is not available yet, it looks like it already exists.
With its continuous development, who can say that Chrome will not be available a month later?