Installing *and* Maintaining an updated chrome browser on Slackware is now made easier with this small program, "google-chrome-the-latest". It is a simple python script that checks what is the latest version available and updates it on your Slackware box directly from Google. It does this by parsing the web-page at https://www.whatismybrowser.com/guides/the-latest-version/chrome and comparing with the chrome version currently installed. Chrome is downloaded directly from Google and converted to txz using the standard rpm2txz command. You can run this script manually or automatically with the provided cron.hourly script. This cron script will attempt to identify which user to notify, otherwise you can force the variable to USERNAME=’your username’ In order to avoid excessive hits on whatismybrowser.com actual checks are limited to "once a day", but you can bypass this with the arguments "install" or "upgrade". These allow the user to force a download from Google and perforam an install or an upgrade, if one is required. Normally it is asked if you want to install the new version, but providing the argument "silent" will just update with no human intervention. Examples: If you don't have yet Chrome installed you can do so by simply by running: /opt/google-chrome-the-latest/google-chrome-the-latest.py install At any time you can force a download from Google site and upgrade without any pop-up window with: /opt/google-chrome-the-latest/google-chrome-the-latest.py silent upgrade This package installs to /opt/google-chrome-the-latest