Installing Google Chrome on Kali Linux

In this short article you will see how easy it is to install Google Chrome on the Kali Linux operating system. You will also see some errors that may occur during installation, and how to fix them.

Note: For installation, you will need the SuperUser password or access from the administrator account (root).

>> The “ # ” before the command indicates that symbol to execute the command you must have “root” privileges or use the sudo command

>> The “$“ before the commandindicates that you do not needprivileged rights to execute this command.

Download:

Use the wget command to download the latest Debian of Google Chrome. To do this, open a Terminal and type:

# wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb

Installation:

The easiest way to install Google Chrome is to use gdebi which will download all the necessary packages. To install gdebi, open a Terminal and then type the following command:

# apt install gdebi-core

Then, install the debian package you downloaded earlier:

# gdebi google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb

Start:

To start the program, first open a terminal and type:

$ google-chrome --no-sandbox

Errors:

1. No SandBox: ERROR:zygote_host_impl_linux.cc(89)] Running as root without –no-sandbox is not supported.

The solution to avoid this problem is to simply run Google Chrome with the –no-sandbox extension, like the following:

# google-chrome –no-sandbox

2. Illegal Instruction: The message “illegal Instruction” appears when you run the google-chrome command as privileged root usera.

To fix the problem, you need to create another privileged user , e.g. linuxconfig. To create another user, type:

# useradd -m -d /home/linuxconfig linuxconfig

Then, restart Google Chrome, using the new linuxconfig user:

# su linuxconfig -c google-chrome

3. The libappindicator1 package is not installed: dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of google-chrome-stable: google-chrome-stable depends on libappindicator1; however: Package libappindicator1 is not installed.

To avoid this problem, you need to use gdebi for installation, as we mentioned earlier.