Google-chrome disappeared

[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?

[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]

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:~$

[Snowhog]

How did you install Google-Chrome?

[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.

[oshunluvr]

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

[oshunluvr]

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

[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.

[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.

[oshunluvr]

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

[Snowhog]

What PC? Do you have more than one HDD in it? Is it possible that the application was installed to another drive (if you have more than one)?

[TwoFistedJustice]

Chrome is gone. But Chromium somehow was able to import my settings from the ghost of Chrome.

Is it possible that Chrome is still there but I can't see or access it?

[TwoFistedJustice]

What PC? Do you have more than one HDD in it? Is it possible that the application was installed to another drive (if you have more than one)?

It's a thinkpad x201. Only one drive.

[chimak111]

Chrome is gone. But Chromium somehow was able to import my settings from the ghost of Chrome.

Is it possible that Chrome is still there but I can't see or access it?

Maybe it was "sync" doing its stuff?

Also, if you have inxi installed, the output of inxi -Fxrz may reveal something.

[claydoh]

Maybe it was "sync" doing its stuff?

Also, if you have inxi installed, the output of inxi -Fxrz may reveal something.

No, it won't, at least in this case.
We probably need to see the apt logs ( /var/log/apt/) to see when (and maybe why) Chrome was uninstalled