![]() Assuming the application was now actually gone and that the icon was just a leftover, I installed "chromium-browser" again from the Software Manager. In doing so, I found that Linux did not remove the launch icon from my desktop panel, but Chrome *was* gone from my list of Applications. I thought perhaps it had regressed to a different version? Clueless at this point, I removed "chromium-browser" through the Software Manager to try to uninstall the application completely. I assume this may be because the browser itself was removed along with the "chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra" update, but when I checked "chromium-browser" in Software Manager, it listed it as still being installed. This time, instead of acting like it would launch, it did absolutely nothing. Updated removed (at the possible expense of my browser), I tried launching Chrome from the icon embedded in the panel at the bottom of my desktop. I told it to go ahead and remove the update. I started with "chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra", since "chromium-browser" appeared to be the actual browser itself, and when I clicked on Remove, the Update Manager informed me that if I removed this update, "chromium-browser" would also be removed. So I decided I'd best remove these updates. As I have my Chrome bookmarks synced and was able to access them from the Windows partition of my hard drive, I felt secure in unistalling and reinstalling Chrome if I had to. I went into the Update Manager and looked at my history, and sure enough, there were two updates that appeared related to Chrome (the rest were Thunderbird and Adobe): "chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra" and "chromium-browser". ![]() So I'm stuck there.Īs I installed some level 2 updates just yesterday, it seemed reasonable that the updates had somehow screwed Chrome up. ![]() If I try to type in my password and press enter, I either get "Sorry, try again" or "sudo: chromium: command not found". If I entered it with the keys, it simply did not appear on the screen, and when I pressed enter on the bizarre off-chance that somehow my password was there even if I couldn't see it, it didn't accept it. I also tried typing in "sudo chromium" to see if I could get the application to launch from there - terminal requested my password with password for me: (and this is where it gets weirder), and although the cursor sat there flashing like normal, terminal would not allow me to type my administrative password. I saw firefox, and a couple of Web Content listings, but nothing that looked like Chrome. Based on some suggestions I saw there, I opened terminal and entered the "top" command to see if Chrome was running and I just couldn't see it. I launched Firefox instead (which is working fine) and searched through some forum questions trying to figure this out. However, after several seconds, both vanished and nothing happened - Chrome did not seem to launch. its little tab stating "Starting Chromium W." appeared in the panel and the little loading circle began. When I clicked the icon this morning, Chrome *appeared* to be starting to launch. I'm running the 32-bit version of Linux Mint Serena (MATE 1.16.2) and I have the Chrome launch icon embedded in the panel at the bottom of the desktop for convenience. My attempts to fix this issue have been stymied and I don't know where to go next, so I'm hoping someone can give me an idea of what to do. ![]() So far I've used Chrome without any problems, but today it refuses to launch. I am relatively new to Linux, so there's much I'm sure I don't know, but I have generally been enjoying it.
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