# Travis is downloading older Chrome versions in place of chrome: stable

**URL:** <https://travis-ci.community/t/travis-is-downloading-older-chrome-versions-in-place-of-chrome-stable/5040>\
**Category:** Travis CI Discussions & Feedback\
**Tags:** build-env\
**Created:** [September 10, 2019, 7:51pm UTC](https://travis-ci.community/t/travis-is-downloading-older-chrome-versions-in-place-of-chrome-stable/5040 "2019-09-10T19:51:35Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 10, 2019, 9:01pm UTC](https://travis-ci.community/t/travis-is-downloading-older-chrome-versions-in-place-of-chrome-stable/5040/3 "2019-09-10T21:01:48Z")

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First, you are downloading `chrome: beta` in the failing job. ([https://travis-ci.com/infor-design/enterprise/jobs/233764514/config](https://travis-ci.com/infor-design/enterprise/jobs/233764514/config))

Second, [https://travis-ci.com/infor-design/enterprise/jobs/233764514#L424](https://travis-ci.com/infor-design/enterprise/jobs/233764514#L424) (I actually found it by searching the raw log for “chrome”):

> dpkg-deb: error: archive ‘/tmp/google-chrome-beta\_current\_amd64.deb’ has premature member ‘control.tar.xz’ before ‘control.tar.gz’, giving up

Means that `dpkg` cannot understand the package’s format.  
Since `xz` is a newer format than `gz`, this most likely means that `dpkg` is too old.  
I.e. that **Google has dropped Trusty support in its Chrome `.deb` packages, and you need to migrate to Xenial or Bionic.**

The Chrome version that you see further on is presumably a preinstalled one.

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