How to Install Google Chrome from the Command Line

I have used a script like this to copy applications from disk images:

temp=$TMPDIR$(uuidgen)
mkdir -p $temp/mount
curl  > $temp/1.dmg
yes | hdiutil attach -noverify -nobrowse -mountpoint $temp/mount $temp/1.dmg
cp -r $temp/mount/*.app /Applications
hdiutil detach $temp/mount
rm -r $temp

• Without -mountpoint the dmg is mounted to a directory like /Volume/Google\ Chrome/.
• -nobrowse doesn't show the volume in Finder.
• If the dmg has a license agreement, yes | skips it.
• cp preserves extended attributes (which includes resource forks) and ACLs by default. As far as I know, ditto is no longer needed for copying application bundles.

Or using brew-cask:

brew install brew-cask
brew cask install google-chrome

brew-cask installs applications to /opt/homebrew-cask/Caskroom/ and creates aliases to ~/Applications/ by default.

edit 2022: brew install can now do casks by default

brew install google-chrome

(Thanks to wisbucky for bringing it up in a comment below)

edit 2019: homebrew has a new syntax for casks:

brew install --cask google-chrome

original: brew cask install google-chrome also works if you have homebrew.

(It basically does the same thing as your final solution)

I was interested in being able to download any of their branches. If you look at the file, you'll see the links you need. Here is an excerpt.

Pn(a,"win64")?"/update2/installers/ChromeStandaloneSetup64.exe":"/update2/installers/ChromeStandaloneSetup.exe":"/update2/installers/ChromeSetup.exe";else if(Wn(a))if(a.sb)a="/chrome/mac/beta/GoogleChrome.dmg";else if(a.ta)a="/release2/q/canary/googlechrome.dmg";else if(a.Sa)a="/chrome/mac/dev/GoogleChrome.dmg";else{a="GGRO";var b=new Y(location.href),b=qk(b,"brand");if(b=b.length&&b[0])for(var c=0,d=Gn.length;c<d;c++){var f=Gn[c],h=f.ki;if(f.Vj.test(b)){a=h;break}}a=pa("/chrome/mac/stable/%s/googlechrome.dmg",a)}else a=Xn(a)?An[a.Bj+(a.sb?"-b":a.Sa?"-d":"")]:"/update2/installers/ChromeSetup.exe";return a}e.Rr=function(a){this.sm=a};

As you can see from doing a simple search on the minified code above, you'll find the last half of the links that should be concatenated with

The way to install Google Chrome will be to download & install it manually through click and install. Download appropriate Google Chrome Deb package. Then sudo dpkg -i . ... Add the key. Set Repository. Update package. Install chrome.

Because at the first install you don't have wget or brew, you can use curl, this works for me:

curl  --output googlechrome.dmg

Here is a way to download it for Macs using Intel or Apple Chips.

        if
            [[ `arch` == arm64 ]]; then
            echo "Architecture is Apple ARM"
            curl  --output googlechrome.dmg
        else
            echo "Architecture is Intel X86"
            curl  --output googlechrome.dmg
        fi