Install Chrome Remote Desktop Debian

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Chrome Remote Desktop on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. For those of you who didnt know, Chrome Remote Desktop is a excellent tool to allow you to access your computers desktop remotely over the Internet a protocol called Chromoting on Google Chrome browsers.

This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add sudo to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you the step-by-step installation of the Chrome Remote Desktop on Ubuntu 20.04 [Focal Fossa]. You can follow the same instructions for Ubuntu 18.04, 16.04, and any other Debian-based distribution like Linux Mint.

Install Chrome Remote Desktop on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Focal Fossa

Step 1. First, make sure that all your system packages are up-to-date by running the following apt commands in the terminal.

sudo apt update sudo apt upgrade

Step 2. Installing Google Chrome.

Run the following command to download the latest Google Chrome .deb package:

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

Once downloaded, running the following command to install the Chrome .deb package on your system:

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

Step 3. Installing Chrome Remote Desktop on Ubuntu 20.04.

Now we grab the source code from Github to install Chrome Remote Desktop:

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