Google-chrome disappeared

[oshunluvr]

Yeah, impossible for us to figure out what happened. I've not seen anything like this reported anywhere.

[Snowhog]

The OS is. Really. Something else must have gone on that we don't know about. Installed programs don't just disappear or magically uninstall themselves.

[TwoFistedJustice]

I'm perfectly happy to try Chromium.

But I'm still concerned that an installed application simply disappeared from my drive.

Not only is that downright weird, it leads me to doubt the reliability of the OS.

[oshunluvr]

Why not Chromium?
https://www.howtogeek.com/202825/wha...um-and-chrome/

[oshunluvr]

Sounds like time to re-install. https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/g...rent_amd64.deb

[TwoFistedJustice]

I believe I installed it from the .deb package...

I don't remember what specific steps I took after that. But I didn't do anything particularly complex, because I don't know how.

[Snowhog]

How did you install Google-Chrome?

[TwoFistedJustice]

Here is my output:

hoo@BadWolf:~$ apt policy google-chrome-stable
google-chrome-stable:
 Installed: (none)
 Candidate: (none)
 Version table:
    72.0.3626.96-1 -1
       100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
hoo@BadWolf:~$ which google-chrome-stable
hoo@BadWolf:~$

[chimak111]

What do you see with apt policy google-chrome-stable?

I have

$ apt policy google-chrome-stable
google-chrome-stable:
 Installed: 72.0.3626.96-1
 Candidate: 72.0.3626.96-1
 Version table:
*** 72.0.3626.96-1 500
       500 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable/main amd64 Packages
       100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
$

And which google-chrome-stable shows

$ which google-chrome-stable
/usr/bin/google-chrome-stable
$

BTW, I have the same .desktop file you have in ~/.local/share/applications.

[TwoFistedJustice]

I had google-chrome installed.

I was using it. Then I closed it. And immediately after, went to start it again, and got the message
`KDEInit could not launch '/usr/bin/google-chrome-stable`

There is a desktop file in .local/share/applications

 
#!/usr/bin/env xdg-open
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Name=Google Drive
Exec=/opt/google/chrome/google-chrome --profile-directory=Default --app-id=apdfllckaahabafndbhieahigkjlhalf
Icon=chrome-apdfllckaahabafndbhieahigkjlhalf-Default
NoDisplay=true
StartupWMClass=crx_apdfllckaahabafndbhieahigkjlhalf

When I looked in /usr/bin AND /opt there was no reference in either one to google that I could find.

I didn't do anything else between shutting it down and going to reopen it. There was about a second in between.

I rebooted, and it is still gone.

The only browsers on my system were Firefox and Chrome. Now just Firefox...

What happened?