Google chrome removal after deleting /opt/google

I had installed google-chrome and there was a folder named google in /opt.
For some reason I accidentally removed /opt.
Now I have trouble removing google-chrome-stable with apt-get.
Any ideas on how to completely remove it from the system?

sudo apt-get remove or sudo apt-get purge fails with:

dpkg: error while cleaning up:
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

Does the removal of all folders associated with google chrome and then somehow remove it from the dpkg list of installed packages sufficient enough for it to be completely removed from the system?

1 Answer

It is a wrong way to manually remove any files or folders installed by dpkg.

The solution is to re-install google-chrome via a deb package.

Download deb file from google.com, then install it using

sudo dpkg -i <file_name>

then remove it

sudo apt-get purge google-chrome*