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At one point I was using Chrome and then one day it just stopped working. All of a sudden it would open but the "Oh Snap" warning would come up. It doesn't matter what I do, it only shows the "Oh Snap" page.
I wanted to uninstall Chrome and then re-install it but as much as it shows up in Dash Home as installed, it does not show up in the Software Center so I can un-install it. I did find the Chrome folder (filesystem/opt/google) but even when I try to trash it (shift+delete) it does nothing and I can't delete it.

Is there a way to get rid of it (cleanly) so I can attempt to re-install it? If I attempt to install a new version of Chrome does it overwrite the old one? (and how do I do that since it's not showing up on USC?) Is there a kind of compatibility issue having both browsers installed?

I am using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS from an USB on a HP Pavillion Laptop.

S1 Removing Chromium Terminal

S2 New Search After S1

S3 Chromium Install Attempt

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To uninstall it, open a Terminal with alt+t or by searching for "Terminal" in Finder. Then run:

sudo apt-get remove google-chrome-stable

and enter your password when prompted.

You'll need to add Chrome to your repo sources. Run the following in the terminal:

  • Add Chrome to your sources list:

echo deb http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/ stable non-free main >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list

  • Add Google's public key:

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

  • Update your sources:

sudo apt-get update

You now can then reinstall it with:

sudo apt-get install google-chrome-stable

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  • Thanks! I uninstalled it but have decided not to bother re-installing Chrome.
    – Buskieboy
    May 14, 2013 at 4:11
  • No worries, I hope the response helped. Chrome is a good browser (I use it myself). Not that I'm advising against Firefox or anything, it's also very nice.
    – dfarrell07
    May 15, 2013 at 5:50
  • Yeah, I liked Chrome but don't like Google being intrusive and spying on me. Chrome seemed slower than Chromium too. I like Firefox but it's a pig on the CPU and memory. Cheers! BTW, how do you make a question read as "answered"?
    – Buskieboy
    May 15, 2013 at 21:50
  • @dfarrell07NOW my Chromium is acting up, doing EXACTLY the same thing that Chrome was doing; the nasty "AW SNAP" error message and tabs crashing! Odd that it never did this before until I uninstalled "CHROME"! Ok, I now have to uninstall "Chromium" so can I use the same terminal verbage and just substitute Chromium for Chrome? If I do this I'll re-install Chrome after all. Also,PURGE is supposed to get rid of all the files REMOVE leaves behind. Do you recommend PURGE or REMOVE? If remove, then how can I get rid of the other files manually since they are usually hidden.
    – Buskieboy
    May 17, 2013 at 23:06
  • @Buskieboy To your first post: accept one of the answers to your question. To your second: Chromium is in the default repos, so you can just use sudo apt-get remove chromium-browser and sudo apt-get install chromium-browser
    – dfarrell07
    May 19, 2013 at 2:15
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Why don't you try using the terminal to uninstall chrome ?

Open a terminal (Ctrl+Alt+t) and type

sudo apt-get remove google-chrome-stable

I don't think you should have problems with this. After that I always like to purge.

sudo apt-get purge google-chrome-stable

To reinstall, download the DEB from Google Chrome website and install from the terminal.

sudo dpkg -i ./Downloads/google-chrome.deb

Change "./Downloads/" to where you saved the DEB file and "google-chrome.deb" with the real name of the file.

That should do it. Give it a try and let us know if it worked.

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  • How does updating work with this method? I remember something about Chrome doing silent updates, which should be okay using this method, but what about apt-get updates? I think I've seen Chrome updates with apt. How would the user get those without having Chrome in their sources? Or are silent updates all that are necessary?
    – dfarrell07
    May 6, 2013 at 23:09

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