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teedee

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SOLVED - Installing Chrome
« on: October 23, 2014, 04:34:53 AM »
How do I install Chrome browser on wattOS?
I tried to download Debian package from Google and install it using GDebi but it doesn't seem to work properly. Just asks for password and does nothing :(
« Last Edit: October 23, 2014, 11:27:46 AM by teedee »
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Re: Installing Chrome
« Reply #1 on: October 23, 2014, 05:42:41 AM »

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Re: Installing Chrome
« Reply #2 on: October 23, 2014, 09:34:49 AM »
@teedee; just out of curiosity, why not Chromium from the repos?
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Re: Installing Chrome
« Reply #3 on: October 23, 2014, 11:13:22 AM »
@blaze
I use mostly chrome on Windows and now I've installed wattOS on my netbook so I don't want to change everything.
Do you think Chromium is good enough? One day I tried to use Chromium but I quit. What is the difference between both?
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Re: SOLVED - Installing Chrome
« Reply #4 on: October 23, 2014, 11:28:58 AM »
Thank you cheiron. It was a problem with dependencies. Now it works!
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Re: SOLVED - Installing Chrome
« Reply #5 on: October 23, 2014, 12:01:35 PM »
Good to hear you got things going. Here is a link to an explanation about the differences between Chrome and Chromium.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_%28web_browser%29
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