I am on Kubuntu 24.04 and I see when I open my Chrome browser the indication that
New Chrome available
and Chrome is out of date
I don't see chrome reported in my software updates so I run the following command:
$sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get --only-upgrade install google-chrome-stable
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
google-chrome-stable is already the newest version (129.0.6668.70-1).
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
mailcap
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove it.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
My browser was closed when I run this and when I reopened it I still see the indication on my top right part New Chrome available
. When I check in the help menu the version reported is Version 129.0.6668.70 (Official Build)
So what is the issue here? Is there a way to fix this? If not, how can I re-install Chrome and can I do it without losing my accounts that I log in?
**UPDATE in response to the answer from user10489**
There is a file named: google-chrome.list.distUpgrade and when I see the content it says:
### THIS FILE IS AUTOMATICALLY CONFIGURED ###
# You may comment out this entry, but any other modifications may be lost.
# deb [arch=amd64] https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main # deactivated during upgrade in noble
Asked by smith
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Dec 1, 2024, 01:26 PM
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