I might be missing something - but isn't autoupdate enabled by default in Chrome? Downloads automatically in the background and updates once the browser is re-launched?

By default, Google Chrome is not set to auto-update for all users.

The chrome-enable-autoupdates.py script from hjuutilainen does the job nicely:
https://github.com/hjuutilainen/adminscripts/blob/master/chrome-enable-autoupdates.py

"The chrome-enable-autoupdates.py script from hjuutilainen does the job nicely:
https://github.com/hjuutilainen/adminscripts/blob/master/chrome-enable-autoupdates.py"

That script didn't work for me. Tried copying and pasting it, then compiling it in the apple script program and got a ton of errors, it won't run and it won't save. Am I doing something wrong? Please advise.

Because it's not an AppleScript. Get yourself a copy of TextWrangler from the App Store and copy/paste the code into a new TextWrangler document, save it with a .py extension.

I'm running this on a 10.10.1 machine and getting "Error: Keystone install failed." Any ideas?

Old topic, but I'm seeing a lot of the Keystone errors as well.

Disregard. There is an updated version of the script that works.

I just tried running the updated version of the script and received the following error:

Running script chrome-enable-autoupdates.py...
Script exit code: 0
Script result: 2015-10-14 17:28:28.441 ksinstall[36891/0xa0fea1a8] [lvl=3] +[KSKeystoneTicketRepair updateKeystoneTicketInTicketStore:version:bundlePath:error:] KSKeystoneTicketRepair found incorrect Keystone existence checker:
Trusted tester support is deprecated.
Keystone installed
Registered Chrome with Keystone

I can't even figure out where it's failing other than the ksinstall command. The script says it fails but it looks like it is actually successful.

The Python script used to work great for me, but when I tried it today it hung.
After forcing the script to cancel, I get this output:

^CTraceback (most recent call last):

  File "/tmp/chrome.py", line 180, in <module>

    sys.exit(main())

  File "/tmp/chrome.py", line 161, in main

    if keystoneInstall():

  File "/tmp/chrome.py", line 101, in keystoneInstall

    retcode = subprocess.call([installScript, '--install', keystonePayload, '--force'])

  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 522, in call

    return Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs).wait()

  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 1384, in wait

    pid, sts = _eintr_retry_call(os.waitpid, self.pid, 0)

  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 476, in _eintr_retry_call

    return func(*args)

KeyboardInterrupt

Anyone else seen this behavior?

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