O que resultou tentando pelas duas maneiras foi isso:
kleiton@kleiton-HP-Pavilion-dv4-Notebook-PC:~$ cd Downloads
kleiton@kleiton-HP-Pavilion-dv4-Notebook-PC:~/Downloads$ sudo dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb
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Selecting previously deselected package google-chrome-stable.
(Reading database ... 168137 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking google-chrome-stable (from google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of google-chrome-stable:
google-chrome-stable depends on libnspr4-0d (>= 4.7.3-0ubuntu1~); however:
Package libnspr4-0d is not installed.
google-chrome-stable depends on libnss3-1d (>= 3.12.3); however:
Package libnss3-1d is not installed.
google-chrome-stable depends on libcurl3; however:
Package libcurl3 is not installed.
dpkg: error processing google-chrome-stable (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf.index...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Processing triggers for python-gmenu ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/desktop.en_US.utf8.cache...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for python-support ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
google-chrome-stable
kleiton@kleiton-HP-Pavilion-dv4-Notebook-PC:~/Downloads$ sudo sh -c 'echo "deb
http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google.list'
kleiton@kleiton-HP-Pavilion-dv4-Notebook-PC:~/Downloads$ wget -q -O -
https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | sudo apt-key add -
OK
kleiton@kleiton-HP-Pavilion-dv4-Notebook-PC:~/Downloads$ $sudo apt-get install google-chrome-stable
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13: Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?
Seria isso algum problema na configuração de permissões de usuário, firewall ou coisas do tipo qeu impeçam o Chrome de instalar?