Ubuntu – Installing Chrome Remote Desktop

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I'm trying to install chrome Remote Desktop on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, but keep on getting the following error:

The package is of bad quality.
The installation of a package which violates the quality standards isn't allowed. This could cause serious problems on your computer. Please contact the person or organisation who provided this package file and include the details beneath.
Lintian check results for /home/sarahellen/Downloads/chrome-remote-desktop_current_amd64 (3).deb:
E: chrome-remote-desktop: dir-or-file-in-etc-opt etc/opt/chrome/
E: chrome-remote-desktop: dir-or-file-in-etc-opt etc/opt/chrome/native-messaging-hosts/
E: chrome-remote-desktop: dir-or-file-in-etc-opt etc/opt/chrome/native-messaging-hosts/com.google.chrome.remote_assistance.json
E: chrome-remote-desktop: dir-or-file-in-etc-opt etc/opt/chrome/native-messaging-hosts/com.google.chrome.remote_desktop.json

Any help would be much appreciated: please note that I'm a Ubuntu newb!!

Best Answer

You get such kind of errors when the package doesn't meet the Debian policy, then it is considered to be of a poor quality.

So a better way of going round this is to use the terminal to install it. So remove all traces of what you did and go through these steps:

cd ~/Downloads (or where the chrome remote .deb file is found) 

sudo dpkg -i *.deb

where *.deb is for example "chrome-remote-desktop_current_amd64.deb" 

sudo apt-get install -f

But make sure you have the dependencies installed for a clean installation.

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