Cannot find Chrome. Try setting CHROME_EXECUTABLE to a Chrome executable. Flutter 2.0

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I updated My flutter Version from 1.22 to 2.0. There are some errors in Flutter Doctor. How Could I solve this. That happen Afer Updated my Flutter Version.

I am Using Android Studion 4.1.2, Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS(64 bit)

Hi, I faced with the same problem. But it turned out that for MOBILE development it's not a problem at all - everything works well for Android and iOS. Looks like Chrome is necessary only for WEB development. — Dmitriy Mitiai, Sep 10 '21 at 10:31
Please don't post a screenshot of the terminal, copy the text instead https://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/285557/1816774 — Tim, Jun 07 '22 at 10:34

score 48 · Answer 1 · edited Jan 27 '22 at 06:05

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For Ubuntu 20.04, chromium is managed by snap. I set the environment variable as shown below.

CHROME_EXECUTABLE=/snap/bin/chromium
export CHROME_EXECUTABLE

Try 'type chromium' to make sure of the location on your system. I assume something similar will work for chrome.

edited Jan 27 '22 at 06:05

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answered Jun 05 '21 at 12:07

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I'm using Linux Mint 20.02 so I use chromium but I've same problem and I'm unable to fix it. `type chromium` output is: `chromium is /usr/bin/chromium` `echo $CHROME_EXECUTABLE` output is: `/usr/bin/chromium` Do you know how can I fix it? BTW, I'v the same issue with snap version (I uninstalled it) – mbnoimi Sep 07 '21 at 14:57
this solution proposed here, indeed solved it for me !!! – Daniel Henry Thomas Oct 31 '21 at 18:00
also if you installed via apt, ou can set the path as: /user/bin/chromium-browser – Williams Bobadilla Jun 17 '22 at 19:30
`echo $CHROME_EXECUTABLE` nothing shows up, the output is empty – coco bar Feb 10 '23 at 05:05
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This works but everytime I close and reopen vscode this comes again!! what should I do – Benyamin Jul 20 '23 at 15:02

score 38 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 16 '21 at 09:03

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For ones who use MacOS and with another chromium-based browser than Google Chrome (Brave in my case). You can set in .zshrc or .bashrc

export CHROME_EXECUTABLE="/Applications/Brave Browser.app/Contents/MacOS/Brave Browser"

After that, don't forget to source ~/.zshrc or source ~/.bashrc in the current terminal window.

flutter doctor -v

Now, "Chrome" will be seen as "Brave".

answered Sep 16 '21 at 09:03

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For Brave on windows, see CoderBlues Post below, but add C:\Program Files (x86)\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\Application\brave.exe Obviously also check if that is indeed your path :) – DORRITO Jan 20 '23 at 17:14

score 25 · Answer 3 · answered May 25 '21 at 19:40

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I had the same error in Windows 10, Using VS Code even after setting CHROME_EXECUTABLE system environmental variable to the path of chrome.exe. I solved it by removing the double quotes around the path:

answered May 25 '21 at 19:40

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This worked for me, and I put the Microsoft edge path instead since it's also based on Chromium. – Apps 247 Jun 08 '21 at 09:38
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I gave my Brave browser's .exe path and I'm happy to debug with Brave browser for my flutter web app. Thanks a lot – Rajesh Oct 12 '21 at 06:30
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or run powershell as admin this `SetX CHROME_EXECUTABLE "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge\Application\msedge.exe"` – Junior Mayhé Sep 16 '22 at 18:05
Thanks @JuniorMayhé. This helped me to set edge in the CHROME_EXECUTABLE – Alfred Manoj Oct 16 '22 at 16:28

score 15 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 17 '21 at 01:28

I'm on a Chromebook. I installed Flutter and Android Studio. When I ran $flutter doctor -v, I got the same error message that you got.

I didn't need to export the file path to my path environment. I just needed to install Chrome so that Flutter could find it on my Chromebook.

Here was the command that worked for me:

wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb

Then I installed it using the Linux beta command (right click on the downloaded file, install using Linux beta). It installed it to this directory:

/usr/bin/

(Alternatively, for the install, I could've used this command:

sudo apt install ./google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb)

I ran flutter doctor -v and now it finds Chrome.

Yes, it works for me. I hadn't install google chrome. I think chromium also working for that. — Kasun Hasanga, Mar 27 '21 at 06:30
I didn't even do much, I just installed Chrome and everything was fine. — Codedman, Nov 11 '21 at 09:11

Manoj Paramsetti · Answer 5 · 2023-01-27T00:14:22.807

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Even though you have a google chrome app in your system. It may have command like google-chrome-stable or chrome or any name to open chrome browser from terminal. Just duplicate the file with google-chrome name in /usr/bin/

Eg: I have google-chrome-stable as executable so my approach is like

sudo cp /usr/bin/google-chrome-stable /usr/bin/google-chrome

You may have bin in snap folder or some other folder depending on your installation way

If you're not having chrome as executable from terminal then create a symbolic link. Find your chrome binary file and use this command

sudo ln -s $PATH/[google-chrome-bin] /usr/bin/google-chrome

Replace [google-chrome-bin] with your binary file name

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answered Aug 19 '21 at 17:42

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This was it for me (Artix, Arch Based distro). Thank you very much. – Lucas Miguel Jan 04 '22 at 19:06
This answer works on Manjaro Linux – Ian Andwati May 26 '22 at 08:48

score 7 · Answer 6 · answered Jun 05 '21 at 17:00

you can export PATH in your .bashrc or .zshrc if you use Linux or MAC OS you can found installed chrome PATH using which

for example

which google-chrome
# example result : /opt/google/chrome/google-chrome

then add to .zshrc or .bashrc like this

# Chrome PATH
export PATH=$PATH:/opt/google/chrome

then restart source

source .zshrc # change if you use .bashrc

running the flutter doctor

you will see the output like this

Doctor summary (to see all details, run flutter doctor -v):
[✓] Flutter (Channel stable, 2.2.1, on Linux, locale en_US.UTF-8)
[✓] Android toolchain - develop for Android devices (Android SDK version
    30.0.3)
[✓] Chrome - develop for the web
[✓] Android Studio (version 4.2)

score 6 · Answer 7 · edited Nov 17 '21 at 23:13

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The answers here have helped me setup Flutter on Mac with Microsoft Edge instead of Chrome. For that, you simply run from your terminal:

export CHROME_EXECUTABLE="/Applications/Microsoft Edge.app/Contents/MacOS/Microsoft Edge"

If you want to make this permanent, you should add the above line to the file

~/.zshenv or ~/.zshrc

Then save and restart terminal.

edited Nov 17 '21 at 23:13

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score 4 · Answer 8 · answered Jan 07 '22 at 11:48

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For Linux users, you can add Edge Browser like this...

first, add this path in .bashrc file path

PATH=$PATH:/usr/bin/microsoft-edge-stable

then execute this command

export CHROME_EXECUTABLE="/usr/bin/microsoft-edge-stable"

answered Jan 07 '22 at 11:48

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score 1 · Answer 9 · answered Aug 23 '22 at 13:34

For MacOS Users

cd to /Users/<your user>
sudo nano ~/.zshenv
Add the following:

export PATH="$PATH:/Applications/Microsoft Edge.app/Contents/MacOS/Microsoft Edge"
export CHROME_EXECUTABLE="/Applications/Microsoft Edge.app/Contents/MacOS/Microsoft Edge"

Save the file and restart the IDE terminal
Run flutter doctor

Manoj Shrestha · Answer 10 · 2023-03-21T10:57:39.537

For MacOs User (Vivaldi Browser or Brave Browser)

This command sets your PATH variable for the current terminal window only. To permanently add CHROME_EXECUTABLE to your path

For Vivaldi Browser USer

export CHROME_EXECUTABLE="/Applications/Vivaldi.app/Contents/MacOS/Vivaldi"

For Chrome User

export CHROME_EXECUTABLE="/Applications/Brave Browser.app/Contents/MacOS/Brave Browser"

To Find Path of browser

Go to Activity monitor and Double click the browser you want a pop up will come choose open Files and port to see the location as seen below

To permanently add CHROME_EXECUTABLE to your path

Open (or create) the rc file for your shell. Typing echo $SHELL in your Terminal tells you which shell you’re using. If you’re using Bash, edit $HOME/.bash_profile or $HOME/.bashrc. If you’re using Z shell, edit $HOME/.zshrc. If you’re using a different shell, the file path and filename will be different on your machine.
If you are using zsh create .zshrc enter a command touch .zshrc which will create a .zshrc file at your hardisk and vice versa for bash.
Go to your finder and press shift + command + H after that again hit a command shift + command + . you will find .zshrc file.
now open .zrch file and add your path of your browser as i am using brave browser browser I will Use,

export CHROME_EXECUTABLE="/Applications/Brave Browser.app/Contents/MacOS/Brave Browser"

Check the summary.

I am using vivaldi browser. – Manoj Shrestha Mar 21 '23 at 10:16 — Manoj Shrestha, Mar 21 '23 at 10:16

score 1 · Answer 11 · answered May 02 '23 at 07:36

For Microsoft Edge users on Ubuntu or spinoffs. You just need to give environment variable the 'path' of edge executable, for that we will see user

 export CHROME_EXECUTABLE="/usr/bin/microsoft-edge-beta"

Right now edge on Linux is in beta, you can check /usr/bin to locate correct executable in future. Then don't forget to reload environment variable by

source ~/.bashrc

Or whatever environment you use like zshrc etc.

Run command flutter doctor, you must see Chrome path now.

score 0 · Answer 12 · answered Mar 21 '22 at 14:06

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in my case it was because the name of my chrome was "google chrome 2.app" i renamed it to "google chrome.app"

answered Mar 21 '22 at 14:06

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score 0 · Answer 13 · answered Mar 28 '22 at 11:53

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You can also try with just chrome instead of google-chrome.

answered Mar 28 '22 at 11:53

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score 0 · Answer 14 · answered Mar 25 '23 at 12:47

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I am using Garuda Linux and this worked for me

sudo cp /usr/bin/google-chrome-stable /usr/bin/google-chrome

answered Mar 25 '23 at 12:47

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score 0 · Answer 15 · answered Jun 01 '23 at 06:48

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In my case Google chrome was not installed in my MacBook Pro M1 chip. Installing google chrome and allowing all recommended permissions resolve my issue.

answered Jun 01 '23 at 06:48

Zain

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score 0 · Answer 16 · answered Jun 23 '23 at 19:35

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Solution for me on Manjaro with ZSH

which google-chrome-stable

For me: /usr/bin/google-chrome-stable

vim ~/.zshrc

Add the following:

export CHROME_EXECUTABLE="/usr/bin/google-chrome-stable"

Then save file and do:

source ~/.zshrc

answered Jun 23 '23 at 19:35

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Jorgehel · Answer 17 · 2023-07-20T18:53:07.000

I have simple ran: sudo snap install chromium

After that, I ran command "flutter doctor" back again and chrome error was gone

:~$ flutter doctor
  Doctor summary (to see all details, run flutter doctor -v):
 [✓] Flutter (Channel stable, 3.10.6, on Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS 5.19.0-46-                                                generic, locale en_US.UTF-8)
 [✓] Android toolchain - develop for Android devices (Android SDK version 34.0.0)
 **[✓] Chrome - develop for the web**
 [✓] Linux toolchain - develop for Linux desktop
 [✓] Android Studio (version 2022.2)
 [✓] VS Code
 [✓] Connected device (2 available)
 [✓] Network resources

Cannot find Chrome. Try setting CHROME_EXECUTABLE to a Chrome executable. Flutter 2.0

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