Install Chrome or Chromium 32 Bit on Ubuntu 64 Bit – Step-by-Step Guide

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I am unable to find any advice how to install either Chrome or Chromium 32 bit on Ubuntu 64 bit 12.10. I installed ia32-libs, downloaded Chrome install package google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb and tried to install with command:

dpkg -i --force-architecture google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb

…but it failed with errors:

# dpkg -i --force-architecture /home/stepank/Downloads/google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb
Selecting previously unselected package google-chrome-stable.
(Reading database ... 253612 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking google-chrome-stable (from .../google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of google-chrome-stable:
 google-chrome-stable depends on libgconf2-4 (>= 2.27.0).
 google-chrome-stable depends on libnss3-1d (>= 3.12.3).
 google-chrome-stable depends on xdg-utils (>= 1.0.2).

dpkg: error processing google-chrome-stable (--install):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 google-chrome-stable

Any advice would be helpful.

Edit: I forgot to mention guide I was using: https://superuser.com/questions/346775/errors-on-attempting-to-install-32-bit-chrome-in-64-bit-ubuntu

Edit 2: I lost my reason to install 32 bit version – memory consumption will sadly be the same. See Alvar's answer bellow.

Best Answer

I just want to clarify why you are doing this. The basic idea is wrong since it will use the same amount of RAM as the 64-bit version.

32-bit consume less ram on a 32-bit system, this is a fact. But it will allocate more RAM on a 64-bit system because the 32-bit packages will be carried through the cpu as 64-bit packages and therefor allocate the same RAM as the 64-bit version. If you are worried about RAM install the 32-bit version. I just did a report on this 32/64 bit problem for school.

So my answer to you is to install any version of 64-bit or 32-bit both will use the same amount of RAM. IF you want to use less RAM install the 32-bit version or upgrade the hardware of your computer.

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