Unable to run google chrome in a fresh kali installation

[gopukrishnantec]

Hi all,

This is my first post to this forum. I have tried to install google chrome in my fresh kali installation and not able to get it run successfully. When I ran it as root, got error to run as normal user. I have created another user and tried again. This time getting error : Gtk: cannot open display : : 0.0
I Googled a lot and not able to find the exact solution. Hope I will get assistance from here.
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Thanks,
G

[itzzmeshashi]

Probably you are running as root and this problem has already been solved.go to /usr/bin there you can find google-chrome.open with your favourite editor and add this to the last line(without any spaces and in the same line)

--user-data-dir

save the file and restart chrome!!!

[YankoNach]

I was running Google Chrome as root user in Kali Linux with adding "--user-data-dir" on 64 bit Kali without any problems untill version google-chrome-stable 42.0.2311.90-1 . Now it stop working: no pop-up window, nothing… Now I’m running Chrome as standard user with “gksu -u chromeuser google-chrome”, but I like much more previous solution. Any help?

[demobill]

Same here.

[ddos]

open terminal and type:

adduser -u chrome

run google chrome use command:
gksu -u chrome google-chrome

[demobill]

root@kali:~# adduser -u chrome
Value "chrome" invalid for option uid (number expected)
adduser [--home DIR] [--shell SHELL] [--no-create-home] [--uid ID]