Google Chrome on Kali Linux will not launch

Question

I'm using Kali Linux amd64 and installed Google Chrome stable release from the official Google Chrome site but it is not launching nor showing any errors

i have tried launching it from the command line but it won't give any output.

System information:

• Intel Core i3 64bit
• 4 GB Ram

What I have tried:

• reinstalled many times no luck
• removed pepper-flash no luck

Answer 1

Create standard user (root is default) and run it with him. If you want other solutions please use google. There are many but this is the simplest.

EDIT (as root):

1. cd /opt/google/chrome

2. Launching chrome simply will not work because in Kali linux we are the root user, chrome wants us to be another user. So launch it like this First make a directory for the chrome user storage mkdir /root/chrome

   Then start it like this: ./chrome --user-data-dir /root/chrome &

   The & so that we can continue using the shell while chrome is open.

3. Anyhow close chrome and lets setup the shortcuts and alias. By now /opt/google/chrome is not on your PATH so just typing chrome from anywhere wont launch it. Easy fix set an alias or a symlink.

   First though lets make a start script for step 8 to always happen

   cd /opt/google/chrome touch startchrome.sh chmod +x startchrome.sh vim startchrome.sh

4. In the script just put this:

   /opt/google/chrome --user-data-dir /root/chrome &

5. Now make the alias - but we wont go that way because we will also need to make that permanent in /root/.bashrc and thats a bigger hassle then the next symlink method:

   alias chrome=/opt/google/chrome/startchrome.sh

   Or make the symlink:

   ln -s /opt/google/chrome/startchrome.sh /usr/local/bin/chrome

6. Now to make the desktop shortcut, this app comes with Kali linux but double check

   apt-get install gnome-panel gnome-desktop-item-edit /root/Desktop/ --create-new

7. Now Leave the type as Application and set the Name to "Chrome" and the Command type out or browse to /opt/google/chrome/startchrome.sh and hit OK

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Answer 2

You can open google chrome with a terminal like this using this command,

google-chrome --no-sandbox

OR

You can follow these steps if you want to open it directly.

1) open the terminal and type nano google-chrome.

2) In the last line use exec -a "$0" "$HERE/chrome" "$@" --no-sandbox instead of exec -a "$0" "$HERE/chrome" "$@".

Answer 3

1. Open google-chrome script using the following command:

   nano /opt/google/chrome/google-chrome

2. At the end of the file, you will see something like this:

   exec -a "$0" "$HERE/chrome" "$@"

Just add --no-sandbox at the end of line. Make it look like below:

exec -a "$0" "$HERE/chrome" "$@" --no-sandbox

This worked for me with Kali 4.19.0 (2019-06-20) version.

Answer 4

I faced the same problem as I am a new to Kali Linux.

I followed the following steps to run applications as low privileged (non-root) user as some are recommended to run as low privileged (non-root) user for safety reasons, e.g. browsers and editors etc.

1. Create a low privileged user account.

2. Run command service ssh restart.

3. Run command ssh nonrootuser@rootuser -X Here nonrootuser is your low privileged username and rootuser is your root user name . After that it is going to ask your low privileged user account password.

4. Next command to run application. For e.g. in my case google-chrome to run the Chrome browser and now you run Chrome as non root user.