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mFat
Asked: 2015-12-30 08:17:03 +0800 CST

Can't update Google Chrome in Iran

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Google lets users in Iran to download chrome deb from google.com/chrome, however the repo dl.google.com/linux is inaccessible!

So running apt-get update and upgrade results in a lot of error messages.

Is there an alternate repo for Chrome?

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2 Answers

  1. Using Tor and torify

    sudo apt-add-repository universe
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install tor
sudo apt-get install torsocks

    If tor and torsocks is also not available, run (for Ubuntu Trusty)

    wget https://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/universe/t/tor/tor_0.2.4.27-1build0.14.04.‌​1_amd64.deb
wget https://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/universe/t/torsocks/torsocks_1.3-3_amd64.d‌​eb
sudo dpkg -i tor*.deb

    After that use torify

    sudo torify apt-get update
sudo torify apt-get install google-chrome-stable
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  2. I managed to do it using tsocks and shadowsocks:

    sudo apt-get install tsocks
sudo tsocks apt-get update
sudo tsocks apt-get upgrade

    Anyway this is still slow and annoying. I wish Canonical could work with Google to unblock the repo, or host chrome debs somewhere else.

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