I have the same problem. I was unable to uninstall, but I was able to go to System>Administration>Software Sources, select the Third Party Software tab and unchecked the Google box. I am now able to update Ubuntu for my Dell.
On Dec 4, 1:30 am, soujiro <[email protected]> wrote: > my status: > ubuntu 8.04 Dell version > google-chrome-unstable_current_i386.deb > > Hi. I have recently learned that the installation of Chrome to this > Dell version of Ubuntu causes a little problem when checking for > upgrades. I have encountered such error messages as the automated > upgrade system gets booted up. > > The problem is due to the repository thing (which I am yet to > understand), and there is a way to avoid the problem by "sudo touch / > etc/default/google-chrome" before the installation. > > In order to do that, I need to uninstall Chrome first. But I > cannot. > sudo apt-get remove google-chrome > gives "cannot find package google-chrome" > > When I downloaded the package, the installation manager did the job, > so I expected that Chrome would show up on the list of applications > installed on the computer. But never! I don't know why. > > I simply changed the file "/etc/default/google-chrome" to > repo_reenable_on_distupgrage="false" > but it does not do anything. > > Could anyone help me out for either uninstalling Chrome or changing > the repository status? -- Chromium Discussion mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-discuss
