<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hi Dave,<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
I always install chrome as admin from the terminal, like this:-<br>
wget <br>
<a href="https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb</a><br>
to download the deb file, then<br>
sudo gdebi google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb<br>
to install it.<br>
<br>
I just tested wget with your Vivaldi download link which worked fine,<br>
so try the above?<br></blockquote></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">I hadn't heard of gdebi so I am pleased you mentioned it (btw it, itself, needs to be installed - at least on my Ubuntu 20.04.2). <br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">If I download a .deb file, I would tend to use:-</div><div class="gmail_quote">sudo dpkg -i file_name_of_package.deb<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Would dpkg work with installing a .deb file just as well as the gdebi command?<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">TIA,</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Ian</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">-- <br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div>-- ACCU - Professionalism in programming - <a href="http://www.accu.org" target="_blank">http://www.accu.org</a><br></div>-- My writing - <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/ianbruntlett/" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/site/ianbruntlett/</a><br><div>-- Free Software page - <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/ianbruntlett/home/free-software" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/site/ianbruntlett/home/free-software</a><br></div><br> </div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>