This tutorial is going to show you how to install Google Chrome on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Focal Fossa. The Ubuntu software app in 20.04 doesn’t support installing local deb packages anymore, so we have to use the command line to install deb packages.

Personally I don’t think this is a good direction for Ubuntu. In my opinion, we should use deb package by default, and only use Snap package when there’s no native deb package for a software application. Dropping support for deb packages would make users use the command line, which is not very user friendly for Linux beginners. This leads me to think that we should recommend Linux Mint rather than Ubuntu to Linux newbies.

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