Installing Chrome on Ubuntu 14.04 [duplicate]

I am trying to install Chrome on my system but instead of installing it says 'reinstall' and never actually opens or loads. This is also the case when I try to install Flash Player - I can see the file in software centre but it doesn't actually install.

Sorry I am very new to Ubuntu.

My laptop has the following processor:

Intel® Pentium(R) M processor 1.70GHz 
748.3mb RAM

Thank you

Solution 1:

To install google chrome Either download from PPA or using .deb

PPA

Using terminal. run those commands, you can open termianl by searching from dash or keyboard shortcut CTRL+Alt+t

wget -q -O - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | sudo apt-key add -
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google.list'
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install google-chrome-stable

using .deb

wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg –i google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb

Solution 2:

How are you trying to install it? I recommend running this command from a terminal:

sudo apt-get install google-chrome-stable

Solution 3:

Try and totally remove chrome using the following code

sudo apt-get --purge remove google-chrome-stable

You also need to delete or rename /home/your_name/.config/google-chrome (.config is hidden. You'll need to press ctrl+H to see it)

then finally run this in your terminal to install chrome, as found on the following link

if [[ $(getconf LONG_BIT) = "64" ]]
then
    echo "64bit Detected" &&
    echo "Installing Google Chrome" &&
    wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb &&
    sudo dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb &&
    rm -f google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
else
    echo "32bit Detected" &&
    echo "Installing Google Chrome" &&
    wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb &&
    sudo dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb &&
    rm -f google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb
fi