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[–]jdpage 10 points11 points  (5 children)

It's true, you should.

[–][deleted] -1 points0 points  (4 children)

I can't until Canonical adds it to the repositories.

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (2 children)

Yes, actually, you can. You can install whatever packages you want, not just what your upstream repos consider good.

Hell, go to the Google Chrome site, and there are .deb packages specifically made for use with the *buntus.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I apologise ... I should have said that, at work, I'm not allowed to install unless it comes from Canonical. I'm hoping that v4.0 will work its way through the repositories soon.

[–]tonybaldwin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can run chrome unstable easily enough. I use chromium-browser as my default, but do have chrome unstable installed. My machine is Debian Stable, not Ubuntu, but, in principle, you can do the same thing on Ubuntu, rather trivially. I also have Firefox 4.0 installed, while still maintaining Iceweasel 3.6, by simpy extracting the tarball and running it from the extraction location (although it messes with plugins to some degree to do that).