0000311: Google Chrome Web-browser Install

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0000311	Kali Linux	New Tool Requests	public	2013-04-28 15:12	2025-07-14 09:18

Reporter	noobKID	Assigned To	dookie
Priority	normal	Severity	minor	Reproducibility	have not tried
Status	closed	Resolution	no change required
Platform	x64	OS	Kali	OS Version	1.0

Summary	0000311: Google Chrome Web-browser Install
Description	i have been trying to install google-chrome web-browser, but was not succesfully in this. i got the error: GDBus.Error:org.gtk.GDBus.UnmappedGError.Quark._pk_5ftransaction_5ferror.Code4: SimulateInstallFiles not supported by backend
Steps To Reproduce	1. google and searched google chrome as always... 2. downloaded chrome tool for my OS version: amd64 (always worked in the past...) 3. tryed to download/install by icon, usually also works fine... 4. the error than came... now i dont have a clue what to do...
Additional Information	downloaded like i said earlier, the version 64BIT of Chrome so it would fit for debian AMD64 i have on my laptop.

Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2013-04-28 15:12	noobKID	New Issue
2013-06-03 17:29	dookie	Note Added: 0000497
2013-06-03 17:29	dookie	Status	new => closed
2013-06-03 17:29	dookie	Assigned To	=> dookie
2013-06-03 17:29	dookie	Resolution	open => no change required
2025-07-14 09:18	g0tmi1k	Priority	low => normal

dookie 2013-06-03 17:29 reporter ~0000497	We don't package the Chrome browser. Debian has a package for it that you can try but I believe Chrome is always problematic when running as root.