Ubuntu – Install Google Chrome Ubuntu 12.04 without sudo

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I was wondering if I could install google chrome without using the sudo command.

I've tried to use the tutorials from google but I couldn't read it because I accidently downloaded the french version of Ubuntu, so I basically don't know what's happening, also, I'm a complete noob at Ubuntu… so if anyone could give me a very very basic tutorial on how to do it, it would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Best Answer

I guess without sudo you cannot install google chrome. Because google chrome will try to install it in directory /opt and few other root directory, which needs sudo privilege.

But the alternative way is to install the chrome portable app. But to run a portable app you must have RUNZ framework

Follow the procedures in this link to install google chrome portable.

But I would recommend you to install the Google chrome with sudo permissions using the below commands

Add PPA to

wget -q -O - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | sudo apt-key add -

sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google.list'

Install Google chrome

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install google-chrome-stable

Hope this helps