battleoverflow/How to Install Google Chrome on Kali Linux using a Bash Script

Created Sun, 20 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Modified Sat, 18 May 2024 06:18:45 +0000
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Linux Bash Development

Description:

Today I will be showing you how to install Google Chrome on Kali Linux by writing a bash script from scratch.

GitHub Link (Remember to follow me if you liked this code!): https://github.com/battleoverflow/chrome-install

Setting up environment

First, create a file called chrome-install.sh, and then open the file in your preferred IDE or editor.

After this file is created, we can begin writing the code.

The first few lines we will want to add:

echo "Downloading Google Chrome..."

This command will check if you already have Google Chrome installed on your system

if command -v google-chrome &> /dev/null;
then
    echo "Google Chrome is already installed"
    exit
fi

Now that we’ve made sure Google Chrome isn’t installed, we can actually install it ourselves.

mkdir ~/Desktop/chrome_install && cd ~/Desktop/chrome_install

You will use the wget command to get the Google Chrome installation link.

wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb

This snippet will check whether the user trying to use the script is root or not. If you are not root, then you will at least need sudo privileges to run the next command in the script.

if [ "$EUID" -ne 0];
then
    echo "Sudo needs to be enabled"
    exit
fi

Finally, lets grab the Google Chrome package that we downloaded earlier and finally install it!

sudo dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb

echo "Congrats, you now have Chrome!"

echo "Version downloaded: " && google-chrome --version

Now we are going to open Google Chrome to verify a successful installation.

google-chrome &

Extra - Uninstall Google Chrome

This is a simple script. All you will need to uninstall Google Chrome are the following commands:

sudo apt remove google-chrome-stable

rm -r ~/.config/google-chrome

Thank you so much for getting to the end of my blog post on How to install Google Chrome using a Bash Script. Here is the full source code w/ comments (also available on my GitHub) if you’re a tl;dr type.

#!/bin/bash

# Creator: battleoverflow
# Created: 08/07/2021
# Project: https://github.com/battleoverflow/chrome-install

# Remember to make this file an executable by using: chmod +x chrome-install.sh

echo "Downloading Google Chrome..."

# Checks to see if you already have it installed

if command -v google-chrome &> /dev/null;
then
    echo "Google Chrome is already installed"
    exit
fi

# Creates a directory to store the .deb file

mkdir ~/Desktop/chrome_install && cd ~/Desktop/chrome_install

# Grabs the Chrome install from Google servers

wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb

echo "Checking if you can use sudo..."

# Will ask for your password to make sure you have sudo permissions

if [ "$EUID" -ne 0];
then
    echo "Sudo needs to be enabled"
    exit
fi

# Installs Google package

sudo dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb

echo "Congrats, you now have Chrome!"

echo "Version downloaded: " && google-chrome --version

# Opens the browser for you. I know I'm so cool for doing this for you.

google-chrome &

# Uncomment these lines if you want to uninstall Google Chrome from your system

# Remember to comment all of the other lines before doing this

# sudo apt remove google-chrome-stable

# rm -r ~/.config/google-chrome