Chrome Update does not work

[Liam Proven]

On Thu, 27 Mar 2025 at 14:12, Jay Ridgley <jridgley2 at austin.rr.com> wrote:
>
> I got a message that CHROME was out of date. A popup window appears in
> te upper right hand corner that contains the word UPDAET.

You mean "Update"?

> I clicked on
> that and a download window appears however the download fails to do any
> thing but download. IT DOES NOT INSTALL.

How do you know?

>   I am running Ubuntu 24.04 lTS.

You mean LTS?

> I use four instances of the browser, each on
> a different desktop, there are four desktops, open at all tines. Each
> works as expected.

What on earth... why?

Oh well. Never mind. You must close them all, all at the same time.
Then, for good measure, reboot.

> Version 94.0.4606.71 (Official Build) (64-bit)

OMG, what?

That is from September 2021. It is beyond ancient. I am amazed it
still works at all!

> What have I done wrong?

Many many things. Among which is not installing it properly and not updating.

Remove it totally.

You need to work out how you installed it, by APT or by Snap.

Try:

sudo snap search chrome

and...

apt search chrome

See which finds it.

But first:

1. Reboot your PC

2. Do a full update of everything. Open a terminal. Type:

sudo apt update
sudo apt full-upgrade -y

3. Reboot.

_Then_ try Chrome.

Make details notes of what the update does. I suggest you take photos.

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