Installing Google Chrome (Stable + Beta) at the same time..

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Khalid

Installing Google Chrome (Stable + Beta) at the same time..

Post by Khalid »

Is there a way to do that? I just installed Google Chrome from the website, the stable version, now I'm trying to get the beta version from Chromium, I downloaded it and trying to install it but it's saying:

Error: Conflicts with the installed package 'google-chrome-stable'

I thought I read somewhere here: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=90&t=55091 that I can install both of them at the same time?

Some information you might want to know:
I'm running Linux Mint 6 Gloria (Gnome) 32-bit + I installed the stable version from a file called:

google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb

So the other one is:

google-chrome-beta_current_i386.deb

Also, I did not use Terminal to do anything.. I just double clicked the .deb it runs a package manager that installs everything for me.

Thank you for reading and trying.
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Craig_Dem

Re: Installing Google Chrome (Stable + Beta) at the same tim

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When I switched to the dev version I just uninstalled via synaptic then installed the dev via .deb.
Khalid

Re: Installing Google Chrome (Stable + Beta) at the same tim

Post by Khalid »

Craig_Dem wrote:When I switched to the dev version I just uninstalled via synaptic then installed the dev via .deb.
Okay and what? o_O
Craig_Dem

Re: Installing Google Chrome (Stable + Beta) at the same tim

Post by Craig_Dem »

Google Chrome has 4 release channels; stable, beta, dev and a bleeding-edge one. I used to use the stable build, but I have switched to the dev channel. To do that I uninstalled google-chrome from synaptic package manager. I then installed google-chrome dev channel by downloading the .deb from the chrome website. I do not think you can install stable and beta side by side but in my experience, even the dev build is highly stable.
Khalid

Re: Installing Google Chrome (Stable + Beta) at the same tim

Post by Khalid »

Are you sure of that? Because someone else said that it is possible!
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