Google Chrome 64 install breaks existing RESOLVED

[Gary J. Kirkpatrick]

On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 6:38 PM, Gary J. Kirkpatrick <garyartista at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 2:21 PM, Andrew Constantine <
> andrewconstantine at outlook.com> wrote:
>
>> What I would do is open a terminal and run:
>>
>> $ sudo apt-get purge google-chrome-stable
>> $ sudo apt-get autoremove
>>
>> Then go to google.com/chrome and download the 64 bit .deb
>> (debian/ubuntu) version. Open your friend the terminal again.
>>
>> $ sudo dpkg -i --force-depends
>> ./Downloads/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
>> $ sudo apt-get -f install
>>
>> Then you should be up and running with 64 bit chrome.
>>
>> --
>> Andrew Constantine
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>>
>> ------------------------------
>> Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2016 07:33:05 +0100
>> Subject: Google Chrome 64 install breaks existing
>> From: garyartista at gmail.com
>> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
>>
>>
>> Upon loading Chrome I get a message that I will no longer get updates to
>> Chrome, and to install the 64 bit version.  When I do so, Software Center
>> opens and will not install the package.
>>
>> "Breaks existing package 'google chrome stable:i386' conflict: google
>> chrome stable ()
>>
>> I have not removed the 32 bit version.  Just wanted to check to see if
>> that would be the thing to do.  I could not find any references to install
>> problems so I imagine this would be fine.
>>
>> Thanks for any advice
>>
>>
>> garyk
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> I removed it using software center and that worked fine.  This method
> might be a bit more thorough.
>
> garyk
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