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Google chrome will not open at all. When I click on the icon for it in the launcher it flashes like it will open, the shortly after it closes. I have purged chrome from the system and re-installed it which worked, until I rebooted, then the same problem again.

Trying to launch it from the terminal it just appears to sit there until I manually quit it.

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  • Using chromium now seems to be a viable workaround
    – Kurt Goepel
    Sep 16, 2017 at 6:09
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    Did you try to launch it from the terminal using google-chrome? What output did you get? Please edit and add the output in a code block ({} button).
    – dessert
    Sep 16, 2017 at 6:11
  • Try askubuntu.com/questions/898694/…. It helped when I had a similar problem
    – user689314
    Sep 16, 2017 at 6:53

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This is a known bug in the Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (GNOME) Software application, but you can install Google Chrome in an alternative way ... open a terminal and execute the following commands :

echo "deb http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list  

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

sudo apt-get update  

sudo apt-get install google-chrome-stable
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