i'm on Manjaro. i've install google-chrome from AUR and it shows up in flutter doctor , flutter devices when executed from terminal. the problem is when i run flutter doctor from vscode it says
[✗] Chrome - develop for the web (Cannot find chrome executable at google-chrome) ! Cannot find Chrome. Try setting CHROME_EXECUTABLE to a Chrome executable.
First you need to switch master channel
flutter channel master
Then run
flutter upgrade
Enable Web support by running
flutter config --enable-web
Find installation path of chrome by running
which chrome
set an Environment variable to chrome's installation path. If your installed using AUR it will in /opt/google/chrome/chrome
export CHROME_EXECUTABLE=/opt/google/chrome/chrome
Finally run
flutter devices
You can see chrome as a connected device.
To use chrome or chromium on Linux(Manjaro), first you have to find their location.
Run the following command:
which chromium
My chromium is located at:
/usr/bin/chromium
If you wish to add this browser to Flutter, then you should add it to the CHROME_EXECUTABLE environment variable.
the following command needs to be placed in the .bashrc:
/usr/bin/chromiumis my chromium location; add yours.
You can use nano:
nano .bashrc
Add the following command and press Ctrl+x and then Y to make sure it has been saved.
export CHROME_EXECUTABLE=/usr/bin/chromium
And finally run:
source .bashrc
Now restart the previous open IDE and it should work. If you run:
flutter doctor
You should find it in the connected device.
check $PATH
try to chrome- and tab
ln -s /usr/bin/google-chrome-stable /usr/local/bin/google-chrome
If you are using brave browser on Manjaro, open the terminal and start here:
which brave-browser
My brave is located at:
/usr/bin/brave-browser
Then you can run the executable:
export CHROME_EXECUTABLE=/usr/bin/brave-browser
Then you can run flutter devices:
flutter devices
The output of flutter devices should be:
1 connected device:
Chrome (web) • chrome • web-javascript • Brave Browser 96.1.33.80 unknown
Run flutter doctor in verbose:
flutter doctor -v
Here's the output all green:
[✓] Flutter (Channel master, 2.6.0-12.0.pre.999, on Manjaro Linux
5.9.16-1-MANJARO, locale en_US.utf8)
• Flutter version 2.6.0-12.0.pre.999 at /home/mbuso/flutter
• Upstream repository https://github.com/flutter/flutter.git
• Framework revision 895beb04bb (33 hours ago), 2021-12-10 18:54:10 -0800
• Engine revision 79f750d4a5
• Dart version 2.16.0 (build 2.16.0-85.0.dev)
• DevTools version 2.9.1
[✓] Android toolchain - develop for Android devices (Android SDK version 30.0.3)
• Android SDK at /home/mbuso/Android/Sdk
• Platform android-30, build-tools 30.0.3
• ANDROID_HOME = /opt/android-sdk
• Java binary at: /opt/android-studio/jre/bin/java
• Java version OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 11.0.10+0-b96-7249189)
• All Android licenses accepted.
[✓] Chrome - develop for the web
• CHROME_EXECUTABLE = /usr/bin/brave
[✓] Android Studio (version 2020.3)
• Android Studio at /opt/android-studio
• Flutter plugin version 62.0.1
• Dart plugin version 203.8452
• Java version OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 11.0.10+0-b96-7249189)
[✓] IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition (version 2021.2)
• IntelliJ at /usr/share/idea
• Flutter plugin can be installed from:
https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/9212-flutter
• Dart plugin can be installed from:
https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/6351-dart
[✓] Connected device (1 available)
• Chrome (web) • chrome • web-javascript • Brave Browser 96.1.33.80 unknown
• No issues found!
To make sure that the export executes on every start you can include this line in your ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc depending on which shell you use:
export CHROME_EXECUTABLE=/usr/bin/brave-browser
