How to Install Google Chrome on Debian 11 Bullseye

This is a quick guide on how to install Google Chrome on Debian 11 Bullseye / Buster 10. The best way to install and keep up-to-date with the Google Chrome browser is to use Google’s own APT repository. All Google-Chrome-Stable, Google-Chrome-Beta and Google-Chrome-Unstable are available.

Install Google Chrome on Debian 11 Bullseye / Buster 10

1. Change to root user.

sudo -i
## OR ##
su -

2. Enable Google APT repository

Debian Sid / Bullseye 11 / Buster 10

Run following command (copy & paste all lines to console) to create /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list file:

cat << EOF > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list
deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
EOF

3. Add Google Linux Package Signing Key

This uses currently recommend approach (/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d), because apt-key command is deprecated.

wget -O- https://dl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub |gpg --dearmor > /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/google.gpg

4. Update list of available packages

apt update

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5. Install Google Chrome using APT

5.1 Install Google Chrome Stable Version

## Debian Sid / Bullseye 11 / Buster 10 ##
apt install google-chrome-stable

5.2 Install Google Chrome Beta Version

## Debian Sid / Bullseye 11 / Buster 10 ##
apt install google-chrome-beta

5.3 Install Google Chrome Unstable Version

## Debian Sid / Bullseye 11 / Buster 10 ##
apt install google-chrome-unstable

6. Start google-chrome

Simply run following command (as normal user):

google-chrome

Or find Google Chrome launcher from application menus.

7. Google Chrome Stable running on Debian Bullseye 11