chrome install "The package is of bad quality"

[DaleEMoore]

Binary package hint: software-center

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=73422#c2

Ubuntu Software Center
Google-chrome-stable The web browser from Google
Version 9.0.597.98-r74359 (google-chrome-stable)
The package is of bad quality
The installation of a package which violates the quality standards isn't allowed. This could cause serious problems on your computer. Please contact the person or organisation who provided this package file and include the details beneath.
Lintian check results for /home/dalem/Downloads/google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb:
Can't call method "data" on an undefined value at /usr/share/lintian/checks/deb-format line 63.

internal error: cannot run deb_format check on package google-chrome-stable

warning: skipping check of binary package google-chrome-stable

root@JenOvo:/home/dalem/Downloads# ll
total 52296
drwxr-xr-x 2 dalem dalem 4096 2011-02-28 09:30 ./
drwxr-xr-x 24 dalem dalem 4096 2011-02-28 09:27 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 dalem dalem 26769040 2011-02-25 17:04 google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb

root@JenOvo:/home/dalem# cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu natty (development branch) \n \l

That's Ubuntu 11.04a2.

Please let me know if there's any other information I can gather for you.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: software-center 3.1.20
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-5.32-generic 2.6.38-rc6
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-5-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Feb 28 09:43:33 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha i386 (20101202)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: software-center
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[P Cantwall (p-cantwell)]

"chromium" is getting better with embedded Flash and java, but it isn't perfect yet. I'm just used to installing Chrome instead.

I'm getting odd lockups when running chromium, though I usually have other things running, too. I haven't been able to pinpoint the cause to start a new bug report. I lose my cursor arrow; it stays as the vertical line like I'm inputting text somewhere. It ignores my mouse clicks to open or close anything else, until I push the power button to get the shutdown/reboot/logout window. It will somesometimes not even do that, forcing me to hold the power button.

[DaleEMoore (daleemoore)]

Hi P;

How did you install the Google Chrome Web Browser on Ubuntu 11.04a2?

I look forward to hearing from you,
Dale

[P Cantwall (p-cantwell)]

Dale,
Chrome is on the Google website as a 64-bit ".deb" available for downloading: http://www.google.com/chrome/ (from a browser on Linux baecause it detects what OS you have.) However, Ubuntu installs a flavor of Chrome called chromium. I believe it has also been in 10.04 and 10.10, but my memory is untrustworthy. It just didn't seem to be kept as upto date as Chrome was, so I have always installed Chrome with those older releases. chromium is installed automatically in 11.04a2, too.

If you tell me to just use chromium (which I have been using because I'm not allowed to install Chrome) and not worry about Chrome, I will obey! ;) I would begin reporting chromium problems, instead.

-peter

[Kiwinote (kiwinote)]

Hi! Thanks for your bug report. We are tracking this issue over at bug 712377. Please continue to report any bugs you may find in software-center. Thanks again for your help!

[P Cantwall (p-cantwell)]

Thank you for the update. I will monitor the info on 712377. This can be closed as a duplicate.