running google-chrome-stable, v. 111.0.5563.64-1, in Ubuntu 16.04.7 LTS (past maintenace)

[William F Hammond]

To Chrome Linux Team:

My previous version of Chrome kept yelling at me about needing an upgrade.  So on March 15 I followed my nose via the old version's Help menu to "google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb" and installed it using Ubuntu's "dpkg".  In so doing I eluded "apt" enforcement of package dependencies, specifically in regard to "libu2f-udev", which is not available for Ubuntu 16.04.7 LTS.

I noticed, however, there seemed to be no unsatisfied runtime library links.  And 111.0.5563.64-1 has been running for me these past 8 days.  My guess is that the "libu2f-udev" must not be truly required, but, rather, should be shown in the package manager as a suggestion.  If that were done, then my "apt" would be happy.  On the other hand, if "libu2f-udev" is truly required, I'd like to inquire whether it would be difficult for you to supply it with chrome.  My impression is that I am not the only one hanging on to Ubuntu 16.04 for now.

Many thanks.

          -- Bill

[Lei Zhang]

There is no guarantee that future updates will have the same runtime dependencies. The Chrome Linux binary could start using newer libc features in accordance with the product's minimum requirements. For libu2f-udev, crbug.com/1191755 is the relevant issue. The dependency will be removed eventually going forward.

Please consider upgrading your OS, as Ubuntu 16.04 is past EOL.

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