Adding Google Chrome to Kali Linux

Coming from a PC support background the first thing I used to insist on installing was the Google Chrome browser. Primarily due to bad practice all my shortcuts and passwords were stored in my google account, so it was a fast way of getting a new PC up and running.

So upon installing Kali Linux for my learning experience I wanted a browser with that familiar look and feel, so I set about learning to install the software.

To begin with, its best practice to update the system repositories and package, so from a terminal window type the following:

sudo apt update

Next, we need to download the Chrome Package. Bare in mind that Kali Linux is Debian based so we need the Debian version. this can be done

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

Finally, we run the apt package manager against the file we have downloaded to install Chrome.

sudo apt install ./google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb

Once complete Chrome can be found in the Kali application menu simply by searching Chrome.

Thank you for reading