Switching between dev and beta Chrome channels on Linux

Switching between dev and beta Chrome channels on Linux: "

If you’re on Linux (say Ubuntu 10.04, also known as Lucid Lynx), you can switch between the developer (dev) and beta channels of Chrome like this:

Switch from Beta to Dev:

sudo apt-get install google-chrome-unstable

Switch from Dev to Beta:

sudo apt-get install google-chrome-beta

That’s easier for me than going back for the .deb file and doing something with it.

Also, if you want to check whether a new dev version of Chrome is out, you can just repeat the same command:

sudo apt-get install google-chrome-unstable

and if there’s no new version, you’ll get something like this back:

Reading package lists… Done

Building dependency tree

Reading state information… Done

google-chrome-unstable is already the newest version.

0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

I figured I’d document this in case I needed to remember how to do it in the future.

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