

Follow what we did in the mentioned methods. Note: If you don’t find any of these settings in the exact same place on your smartphone (because it depends on the OS and phone model), then you can use the search option inside settings to find them faster.Įx., go to settings, search for time or date, and you get similar options. Now, just head to the play store and try updating the app, if it still doesn’t update then, go on to the next one. Now, turn the toggle on for Use network-provided time and Use network-provided time zone, make sure both these are turned on. Navigate Time and Date options from the Additional Settings. Here is how you can reset the time on your Android device, The cause of not being able to update Chrome or any other app too might be inaccurate time and date.

Time and Date on Android devices have to be accurate all the time which enables the OS to run properly.

Try it, if it doesn’t work go on to the next solution. Restarting the device clears all the corrupted cached data in the RAM and tends to refresh the phone software which clears all the unnecessary data in the RAM. Certainly, it might fix the issue of Google Chrome not updating on the device. Such basic actions like restarting the smartphone can solve a lot of issues irrespective of the kind of error the software is facing. Clear App Data Of Play-Store or Update It I’ve updated Google Chrome for my Linux Mint. Verifying the addition of the Google Chrome repository Which gave this listing: No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.listĪctive apt repos in: /etc/apt//google-chrome.list If you had exited the command prompt, you may be asked to enter the admin password again.įinally, I confirmed that the Google Chrome repository was added, using: inxi -r Then I run the installation using (file name, as it was saved/downloaded, is bolded – in my case I used “b”): sudo dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_current_b In my case that was “Pictures,” but I suppose most normal people will put that into “Downloads,” so: 🙂 cd Downloads Then I used the command prompt to open the directory where I had downloaded the package. Then I downloaded the latest version “64 bit. When you are typing the password, the command prompt may not move, as if nothing is happening, but once you hit “Enter,” all’s good – or you get a notification that you’ve entered an incorrect password if you mistype. I had to do it “manually,” using the command prompt (CTRL+ALT+T).įirst I removed the existing installation using the command:

This solution should work with any Debian (and Ubuntu as its child) Linux distro – but I haven’t tested it (feedback is welcome). But the usual update methods didn’t work. I had a problem with Google Chrome on Linux Mint warning me there is a new version and that I should update.
