How to Install Google Chrome from the command line
I found this after mucking around with the page source:
https://dl.google.com/chrome/mac/stable/GGRO/googlechrome.dmg
I have used a script like this to copy applications from disk images:
temp=$TMPDIR$(uuidgen)
mkdir -p $temp/mount
curl https://dl.google.com/chrome/mac/stable/GGRO/googlechrome.dmg > $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.
brew cask install google-chrome
also works if you have homebrew.
(It basically does the same thing as your final solution)
edit: homebrew has a new syntax for casks:
brew install --cask google-chrome