Ok, I have manged to reproduce on another machine. When trying to install the 64 bit deb for Chrome, software-center pops up a dialog with the following info... The package is of bad quality The installation of a package which violates the quality standards isn't allowed. This could cause serious problems on your computer. Please contact the person or organisation who provided this package file and include the details beneath. Details Lintian check results for /home/tony/Downloads/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb: W: google-chrome-stable: extended-description-line-too-long E: google-chrome-stable: file-in-etc-not-marked-as-conffile /etc/cron.daily/google-chrome Can't call method "data" on an undefined value at /usr/share/lintian/checks/deb-format line 63. internal error: cannot run deb_format check on package google-chrome-stable warning: skipping check of binary package google-chrome-stable md5sum: ./opt/google/chrome/chrome-sandbox: No such file or directory md5sum: ./opt/google/chrome/chrome.pak: No such file or directory md5sum: ./opt/google/chrome/default-app-block: No such file or directory md5sum: ./opt/google/chrome/google-chrome: No such file or directory md5sum: ./opt/google/chrome/google-chrome.desktop: No such file or directory md5sum: ./opt/google/chrome/libffmpegsumo.so: No such file or directory md5sum: ./opt/google/chrome/libpdf.so: No such file or directory md5sum: 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