Ubuntu – Can’t launch google-chrome-stable. Getting Out of date NSS (Libnss3)

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I can't seem to open google-chrome-stable. When I attempt to launch the application I get the following:

[7465:7499:0911/174740.042852:FATAL:nss_util.cc(632)] NSS_VersionCheck("3.26") failed. NSS >= 3.26 is required. Please upgrade to the latest NSS, and if you still get this error, contact your distribution maintainer.
Aborted

I have run the following commands to fix:

sudo apt-get-upgrade
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libnss3

(That says I have the newest version.)

Here is what I get when I run sudo apt-cache policy libnss3:

libnss3:
  Installed: 2:3.19.2.1-0ubuntu0.15.04.2
  Candidate: 2:3.19.2.1-0ubuntu0.15.04.2
  Version table:
 *** 2:3.19.2.1-0ubuntu0.15.04.2 0

I have uncommented everything in /etc/apt/source.list.

Best Answer

If you are running 15.10 and below, the proper way is to upgrade the distro. However if you need to stick to your current version for whatever reason, here is what I have done.

I have force install the libnss3 from the upgraded version .deb file along with a dependency requirements.

Here is the dependency

sudo dpkg -i libnspr4_4.13.1-0ubuntu0.16.10.1_amd64.deb

from http://launchpadlibrarian.net/317146464/libnspr4_4.13.1-0ubuntu0.16.10.1_amd64.deb

Then, install the libnss3

sudo dpkg -i libnss3_3.26.2-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb

from http://launchpadlibrarian.net/295856174/libnss3_3.26.2-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb

You still need to install one more, libnss3-nssdb, which is required for the Chrome as well

sudo dpkg --force-all -i libnss3-nssdb_3.26.2-0ubuntu0.16.04.2_all.deb

from http://launchpadlibrarian.net/296542005/libnss3-nssdb_3.26.2-0ubuntu0.16.04.2_all.deb

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I have taken the precaution by backing up these packages from system before installing the upgraded version in case something break and I cannot find the original .deb. In my case, I cannot find the deb for libnss3-nssdb

sudo apt-get install dpkg-repack
sudo dpkg-repack libnss3-nssdb
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