Google chrome install/updation issues

[Ramachandra Iyer]

I have installed google chrome on fossapup64. When new version of google chrome released, i am getting message that your browser is incompatible and new version is available for download. Existing google -also shows updation message on panel. As no auto updation ? is available for google chrome, I have downloaded the google chrome and tried to install the same. However, it asked spot password. I have given password as spot. It was not accepted. On searching the forum, I have enabled new password for spot in terminal like root# passwd spot
Changing password for spot, New password:xxxx. Given new password and installed the google chrome. Still not able to get new version of google chrome and getting reinstall notification every time while launching google chrome browser. Also note that I have uninstalled the earlier versions, still the problem persists. So how to install/update google chrome and libre office etc.

[bigpup]

Do not ask about more than one program in a topic.
Keep the topic on subject.
This topic is asking about Chrome browser.

You need to provide us some specific info on what you did.
You say you uninstalled older versions of Chrome.
Specifically how did you do that?

You say you have downloaded the google chrome and tried to install the same.
You did this how?
Specific details?
Downloaded from where, what Chrome package, what Chrome version?

For Puppy Linux it is better if you can get a newer version of Chrome from those posted in the forum Additional Software->Browsers and Internet
See if this topic has what you are looking for.
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[xenial]

I usually go into the PPM and uninstall the chrome installation and then re-run the get chrome browser from within the internet section and it should fetch the new version,although i should add i do this with chromium and not chrome.

[Ramachandra Iyer]

New version directly downloaded from google website (google chrome stable current amd64 .deb.) I have uninstalled old version through PPM. See I have faced current problem only in fossapup. I have been using google-chrome for the several years on puppy linux.

[mikewalsh]

@Ramachandra Iyer :-

New version directly downloaded from google website (google chrome stable current amd64 .deb.) I have uninstalled old version through PPM. See I have faced current problem only in fossapup. I have been using google-chrome for the several years on puppy linux.

Oh gawd, NO. No, no, NO. While you can happily install the Chrome .deb in mainstream, multi-user distros without any issues, this is one thing you should never, EVER do in Puppy.....under any circumstances.

Why? I hear you say. Much of it revolves around the fact that Puppy does not possess the true separation between the root user and the 'normal' user that you get in mainstream distros. Google-Chrome is packaged to make use of this 'root' separation. Since Puppy is basically a single-user distro (the single, primary user is always "root"), with provision for running certain items as a sort of 'restricted' user, we usually take the .deb package & re-build it, changing things, modifying permissions, etc, so that it will work correctly with Puppy.

One of the long-standing peculiarities of installing the .deb package directly into Puppy, as-is, is that it changes permissions on the /initrd/pup_rw layer of the AUFs 'layering' file-system that Puppy has always used. Amongst other things, this almost invariably breaks your printer installation, since it modifies many of CUPS permissions/ownerships as it does so.

As m'colleague says, you'll usually find packages run better when they've been specifically built to work with Puppy. You're not the first to discover this, and I very much doubt you'll be the last, either..!

Mike.

[Ramachandra Iyer]

See Quickpet also routed to google-chrome website. So normally people will download deb package only. Any way I have been using debian package almost since inception of Puppy Linux. I have not faced any issue till date. Even my Canon network printer is also working fine.

Update: I have once again uninstalled google chrome current stable.deb through PPM and downloaded once again google chrome.deb and installed in fossapup64. Now it is working and everything fine !!!!. New version 93.0.4577.63 .