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Diverting google-chrome script with DPKG
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dpkg-divert.txt
sudo apt-get remove --purge google-chrome-stable
cd ~/Downloads
wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
sudo apt-get update
sudo dpkg-divert --divert /usr/bin/original-google-chrome-stable --rename /usr/bin/google-chrome-stable
dpkg-divert --list
sudo dpkg-divert --remove --rename /usr/bin/google-chrome-stable
# Now need to reset the symlink in /usr/bin/google-chrome
ln -s /usr/bin/google-chrome-stable /usr/bin/google-chrome
ln -s /opt/google/chrome/google-chrome /usr/bin/chrome
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