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Friday, August 16, 2013

How to install Google Chrome 28 on CentOS 6.4

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1. Introduction
Google Chrome is a freeware web browser developed by Google Inc.  Google Chrome team finally announced the release of Google Chrome 28.0 for Linux, Mac and Windows operating systems. This new version bundled with some exciting features like a new API for high quality video and audio communication with minor security and bug fixes. If you would like to know more other cool features of this release, please visit at Google’s Chrome Features.
2. Install Google Chrome 28
Step 1: Enable Google YUM repository
Create a file called /etc/yum.repos.d/google-chrome.repo and add the following lines of code to it.
[google-chrome]
name=google-chrome
baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/$basearch
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub 
Step 2: Installing Chrome Web Browser
Download and Install Chrome Web Browser with yum command. It will automatically install all dependencies.
# yum install google-chrome-stable
 Update: 
The problem
Sadly, the Google folks apparently think that the world's most popular commercial Linux (Red Hat Enterprise Linux aka RHEL) and its free equivalents (e.g. CentOS and Scientific Linux) are no longer worth supporting at all w.r.t. their Google Chrome browser.
Yes, they've dropped support for version 6.X of the above RHEL-based platforms from Google Chrome 28 onwards, despite the OSes being the latest release and fully supported by their respective maintainers until November 2020! It's equally bad that the latest Mozilla Firefox and Opera browsers run happily on the platforms, providing short shrift for any excuses the Google folks have come up with to justify their somewhat blinkered support stance.
I've built Chromium from regularly pulled source code in the past for CentOS 5 and it's a tough job on that platform and I didn't want to do it again for CentOS 6.
The solution Luckily, there is a solution to this and it's not rocket science or that original either. You need to grab libraries from a more recent Linux distro, put them in a tree (/opt/google/chrome/lib) exclusively picked up by Google Chrome and then you can indeed run Google Chrome on CentOS 6.4 or later. 

# wget http://chrome.richardlloyd.org.uk/install_chrome.sh
# chmod u+x install_chrome.sh
# ./install_chrome.sh 
Step 3: Starting Chrome Web Browser
Starting browser with root user.
# google-chrome &
  

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