[Solved]How can I update google-crome if I can't find the pa

[mvjap3]

I tried to identify the package name with urpmf and/or urpmq but can't seem to find an evocation that will list the current package name. There doesn't seem to be a what provides option that can work with the command line invocation of the browser...

I use different browsers for different tasks. The only things I use google-chrome for is netflix & pandora.
I also use Chromium but only for facebook. And then since I don't trust FB, every time I log out I clear ALL browsing data...
I'm using Mageia 6 and netflix complained about my browser needing to be updated for some advanced feature. the last time that happened it was soon followed by no longer being able to view any of the videos {TV episodes and or movies } until I figured out how to upgrade google-chrome. But I've lost my notes on how I did that. I'm hoping to find out how before netflix stops letting me watch anything...

Any suggestions or links to a good how-to?

[isadora]

As where it concerns updating Chrome, i would suggest:
https://support.google.com/chrome/answe ... ktop&hl=en

[vinylninja]

Google Chrome normally adds its own repo and thus will be updated when you update your system if there is a new version of Chrome.
First of all I do not use Chrome but I think the package is called google-chrome-stable, therefore you could try to find it:

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rpm -q google-chrome-stable

and it will tell you if is installed or to see information about the package with:

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urmpq -i google-chrome-stable

If you do not know the exact name of the package you can search it with this command:

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urpmf chrome

It will list all packages containing chrome in its filename.

If you do not trust Facebook then you should consider using Firefox with the Facebook Container add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/a ... container/
Firefox now since a long time is perfectly capable of playing DRM protected content like on Netflix, you just have to enable it, either from preferences or if asked on the Netflix site.

[mvjap3]

Google Chrome normally adds its own repo and thus will be updated when you update your system if there is a new version of Chrome.
First of all I do not use Chrome but I think the package is called google-chrome-stable, therefore you could try to find it:

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rpm -q google-chrome-stable

and it will tell you if is installed or to see information about the package with:

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urmpq -i google-chrome-stable

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 ~
UnderTree=-> rpm -q google-chrome-stable
google-chrome-stable-75.0.3770.80-1
 ~
UnderTree=-> urpmq -i  google-chrome-stable
No package named google-chrome-stable
 ~
UnderTree=-> urpmq -i  $(rpm -q google-chrome-stable)
No package named google-chrome-stable-75.0.3770.80-1
 ~
UnderTree=->


If you do not know the exact name of the package you can search it with this command:

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urpmf chrome

It will list all packages containing chrome in its filename.

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 ~
UnderTree=-> urpmf --uniq chrome >> ~/chrome_urpmf
<snip>
 ~
UnderTree=-> wc -l ~/chrome_urpmf
130228 /root/chrome_urpmf
 ~
UnderTree=->


None of which are about the google chrome browser...

If you do not trust Facebook then you should consider using Firefox with the Facebook Container add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/a ... container/
Firefox now since a long time is perfectly capable of playing DRM protected content like on Netflix, you just have to enable it, either from preferences or if asked on the Netflix site.

Except that Firefox with the noscript add-on is the browser I use to access things like my online banking (after which I close Firefox which dumps all cookies etc... And when NOT connected to things like that no script helps protect me from undesired 3rd party javascript sites. But I'm very uncomfortable with trusting it's developers to contain a moving target like facebook. And If I used it to access netflix, I wouldn't feel safe unless I logged out of netflix and restarted firefox before checking my bank balance etc...

No I prefer to keep those things in separate browsers...

So I used google to do a web search looking for how to download a Mageia safe rpm what I found was:
[url]
https://www.google.com/chrome/?brand=CH ... aign-promo
[/url]
But the only rpm listed is for:

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 64 bit .rpm (For Fedora/openSUSE)

then it says: [qoute]Not Debian/Ubuntu or Fedora/openSUSE? There may be a community-supported version for your distribution here.[/quote]
which does list Mageia on:
[url]
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chrom ... ackages.md
[/url]
but that only leads to chromium not Chrome...
So would it be safe to try to install that Fedora/openSUSE rpm ???
And since urpmq doesn't seem to see google-chrome-stable-75.0.3770.80-1 will it get in the way? In which case how would I purge it before installing the above listed rpm?
Or
How else do I start the process that should lead to actually having the Google repository ? {Which I don't think I do. Though I can't remember how to get a list of installed media sources which if I remember right is what Mageia calls it's repositories.}

[mvjap3]

As where it concerns updating Chrome, i would suggest:
https://support.google.com/chrome/answe ... ktop&hl=en

Thank you... Though that link seems to have more info for non-linux installations than linux
ones.
The updateing instructions involve the menu I'd access with alt+f but are visually labled with
three dots.
The link says:

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To update Google Chrome:

    On your computer, open Chrome.
    At the top right, click More More.
    Click Update Google Chrome.
        Important: If you don't see this button, you're on the latest version.
    Click Relaunch.


But even if I click or right click on the three dots it doesn't lead to any choices about updating
or relaunching...

When I expand the section labled "More information for Mac, Linux, & Windows 8 users" I get:

Linux users: To update Google Chrome, use your package manager.

[doktor5000]

@mvjap3 Please have a look at our MAQeia for Chrome: viewtopic.php?f=36&t=2053
As you already have it installed, you should also have the repository for it configured automatically. To confirm that, please post the output of

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urpmq --list-media active --list-url

You should get updates offered as they are released by Google, the same way as you do for Mageia updates. If you have more questions just ask.

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rpm -q google-chrome-stable

and it will tell you if is installed or to see information about the package with:

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urmpq -i google-chrome-stable

If you do not know the exact name of the package you can search it with this command:

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urpmf chrome

It will list all packages containing chrome in its filename.

I'd like to add some more context information on those. rpm -q packagename will only show you the name+version of the package that you provide as "packagename", and this only is for installed packages.
If you want information on an installed package, just use rpm -qi packagename as urpmq -i will query the available packages from the currently configured repositories, not the installed packages, and it will add multiple outputs for multiple versions of the same package.

urpmf chrome would query the available packages from the currently configured repositories for a file that has "chrome" as part of a filename in that package, so that is not what you want.

If you want to search for packages by name, either use urpmq -y searchstring which will query the available packages from the currently configured repositories for a package that has "searchstring" in the packagename and it will also do a fuzzy search.

What I usually use when searching for package names is urpmf -f -m --name searchstring which will query the available packages from the currently configured repositories for a package that has "searchstring" in the packagename and it will also show from which repository that package comes.

For more details please have a look at our software management MAQeia viewtopic.php?f=36&t=4231 or the sections in the wiki regarding urpmf/urpmq:
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/URPMI#urpmf and https://wiki.mageia.org/en/URPMI#urpmq

[mvjap3]

@mvjap3 Please have a look at our MAQeia for Chrome: viewtopic.php?f=36&t=2053
As you already have it installed, you should also have the repository for it configured automatically. To confirm that, please post the output of

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urpmq --list-media active --list-url

You should get updates offered as they are released by Google, the same way as you do for Mageia updates. If you have more questions just ask.

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 ~
UnderTree=-> urpmq --list-media active --list-url
Core Release http://mirror.math.princeton.edu/pub/mageia/distrib/6/x86_64/media/core/release
Core Updates http://mirror.math.princeton.edu/pub/mageia/distrib/6/x86_64/media/core/updates
Nonfree Release http://mirror.math.princeton.edu/pub/mageia/distrib/6/x86_64/media/nonfree/release
Nonfree Updates http://mirror.math.princeton.edu/pub/mageia/distrib/6/x86_64/media/nonfree/updates
Tainted Release http://mirror.math.princeton.edu/pub/mageia/distrib/6/x86_64/media/tainted/release
Tainted Updates http://mirror.math.princeton.edu/pub/mageia/distrib/6/x86_64/media/tainted/updates
Core 32bit Release http://mirror.math.princeton.edu/pub/mageia/distrib/6/i586/media/core/release
Core 32bit Updates http://mirror.math.princeton.edu/pub/mageia/distrib/6/i586/media/core/updates
Nonfree 32bit Release http://mirror.math.princeton.edu/pub/mageia/distrib/6/i586/media/nonfree/release
Nonfree 32bit Updates http://mirror.math.princeton.edu/pub/mageia/distrib/6/i586/media/nonfree/updates
Tainted 32bit Release http://mirror.math.princeton.edu/pub/mageia/distrib/6/i586/media/tainted/release
Tainted 32bit Updates http://mirror.math.princeton.edu/pub/mageia/distrib/6/i586/media/tainted/updates
 ~
UnderTree=->


[mvjap3]

@mvjap3 Please have a look at our MAQeia for Chrome: viewtopic.php?f=36&t=2053
As you already have it installed, you should also have the repository for it configured automatically. To confirm that, please post the output of

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urpmq --list-media active --list-url

You should get updates offered as they are released by Google, the same way as you do for Mageia updates. If you have more questions just ask.

Actually even though I'm fairly sure I never followed the manual installation process described in that MAQeia link I did NOT have the repo. So I followed the directions in the same link to add the repo, import google's signing key and then associate said key with the repo so that I was finally successful when I used a root terminal to run the

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urpmi google-chrome-stable


command...
Now If I understand it, this means that the next time I run a

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urpmi --auto-update

command, Chrome should be among the packages that would be updated.
Right???
Thanks

[mvjap3]

If you do not trust Facebook then you should consider using Firefox with the Facebook Container add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/a ... container/

While I don't think I'm likely to use that facebook-container I did find the concept interesting enough to check out the link.
But:

Hindern Sie Facebook daran, Sie durch das Internet zu verfolgen. Mit dem Facebook-Container-Add-on

Unfortunately I don't speak {that's German right?}
Though I was able to find an English version via Firefox's Add-ons Manager.
It's an interesting Idea. But it's definitely not for me. Even so I thank you for telling me about it.

[vinylninja]

Now If I understand it, this means that the next time I run a

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urpmi --auto-update

command, Chrome should be among the packages that would be updated.
Right???

Exactly.