Google Chrome is a freeware web browser developed by Google Inc. It was released as a beta version for Microsoft Windows on September 2, 2008, and as a stable public release on December 11, 2008. This tutorial helps you to how to Install Google Chrome latest release on CentOS/RHEL 7 & Fedora 27/26/25/24.
Unfortunately, Google Chrome 65 and later versions switched to GTK+3, so it’s not possible to install on CentOS/RHEL 6. But the latest chrome version runs out-of-the-box on CentOS 7 and Fedora 27/26/25.
Step 1 – Enable Yum Repository
First of all, create a yum configuration file on your system.
sudo vim /etc/yum.repos.d/google-chrome.repo
add the following configuration to the above file and save it.
[google-chrome] name=google-chrome - \$basearch 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 – Install or Update Google Chrome
Now, you have a choice to install the current stable release of Google Chrome or beta release on your Linux system. Let’s use the following commands to install latest Google chrome as per your needs.
Install Stable Version
sudo dnf install google-chrome-stable #Fedora 27/26/25 sudo yum install google-chrome-stable #CentOS/RHEL 7
Install Beta Version
sudo dnf install google-chrome-beta #Fedora 27/26/25 sudo yum install google-chrome-beta #CentOS/RHEL 7
Step 3 – Launch Google Chrome
Use the following command to start Google Chrome from the non-root account.
google-chrome
or start the process in the background
google-chrome &
hi friends
can you suggest the how to update chrome on rhel6. my chrme version is 10.0 and i want to update chrome 51. can you write step
Can’t update google-chrome on Fedora 17 anymore either.
Dependency errors:
# yum update google-chrome-beta
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
Resolving Dependencies
–> Running transaction check
—> Package google-chrome-beta.x86_64 0:49.0.2623.47-1 will be updated
—> Package google-chrome-beta.x86_64 0:54.0.2840.50-1 will be an update
–> Processing Dependency: libnss3.so(NSS_3.19.1)(64bit) for package: google-chrome-beta-54.0.2840.50-1.x86_64
–> Processing Dependency: libstdc++.so.6(GLIBCXX_3.4.18)(64bit) for package: google-chrome-beta-54.0.2840.50-1.x86_64
–> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Package: google-chrome-beta-54.0.2840.50-1.x86_64 (google-chrome)
Requires: libnss3.so(NSS_3.19.1)(64bit)
Error: Package: google-chrome-beta-54.0.2840.50-1.x86_64 (google-chrome)
Requires: libstdc++.so.6(GLIBCXX_3.4.18)(64bit)
You could try using –skip-broken to work around the problem
You could try running: rpm -Va –nofiles –nodigest
# yum list nss
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
Installed Packages
nss.x86_64 3.14.3-2.fc17 @updates
Available Packages
nss.i686 3.14.3-2.fc17 updates
Unsupported architecture (i686), Does it will supported?
this is not work . the error is Aborted (core dumped)..
when i execute google-chrome error message like this Aborted (core dumped)…
some one give me solution ..
I tried to upgrade from Chrome 42 to the latest ( a big mistake it as turned out). After the upgrade, the only thing I see is “Aw, Snap!” on all pages including ‘settings’. Please help resolve it. I am using scientific linux 6.x. Thanks.
Searching the internet, I found the solution to the “Aw, Snap!” problem. The command “google-chrome -no-sandbox &” did the trick . Chrome still complains that this is an unsupported option, but still works.
As of today (2015-09-02), this script installs Chrome 45 which is COMPLETELY BROKEN. ALL WEB PAGES SAY “Aw, Snap”. No plug-ins can be loaded. PLEASE HELP US REVERT TO CHROME 44!!!
Yes this installation works also on Oracle Linux 7 like a charm. 🙂
Dhanyavad/ Shukriya/Thanks Rahul and Richard.
Richard Script is ideal when one is confronted or considering RHEL stone cold Developer support.
http://chrome.richardlloyd.org.uk/install_chrome.sh
hi
I have an issue on my Centos 6.4, after running the script and upgrading to version 39
The google chrome wont open, its just not producing anything !
Some testers in my company wanted some other chrome version and I have run the script for a new version, But it screwed up everything 🙁
I cant even run the older chrome after uninstalling the script
The older chrome gives different error after running it.
“Failed to move to new PID namespace:
Operation not permitted”
Please someone help, I screwed up our jenkins test server 🙁
I struggled with the same issue for a week and found that google chrome opened magically without
any problem after I did “rm -rf ~/.config/google-chrome/*”.
Try it and hope it helps you.
hi manoj and wei,
I have the same issue on my Centos 6.4.
The google chrome wont open, its just producing anything !
Some testers in my company wanted some other chrome version and I have run the script for a new version, But it screwed up everything 🙁
I cant even run the older chrome after uninstalling the script
The older chrome gives different error after running it.
“Failed to move to new PID namespace:
Operation not permitted”
Please someone help, I screwed up our jenkins test server.
I installed the latest Chrome with the install_chrome.sh on my RHEL6.6. When I started Chrome either by clicking at the Chrome icon or running command “google-chrome”, it just hung there. I edited the /opt/google/chrome/google-chrome by adding “echo …” at various points; then ran “google-chrome”. It turned out the script stuck at this line:
exec > >(exec cat)
After I commented out the above line, it stuck at the last line “exec -a ….”..
After I commented this line “exec 2> >(exec cat >&2)”, it hung again with the following error message:
nss_util.cc(94)] Failed to create /wei/.pki/nssdb directory.
However, the new /wei/.pki/nssdb was created.
How to fix this?
In addition to comment out these two lines in /opt/google/chrome/google-chrome: exec > >(exec cat) and exec 2> >(exec cat >&2), I also disabled SELinux as suggested in some postings here. Now Google Chrome is running, but still has following error messages:
/opt/google/chrome/nacl_helper: /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.15′ not found (required by /opt/google/chrome/nacl_helper)
[1:1:1105/104547:ERROR:nacl_fork_delegate_linux.cc(292)] Bad NaCl helper startup ack (0 bytes)
libGL error: failed to open drm device: Permission denied
libGL error: failed to load driver: r600
[17530:17572:1105/104625:ERROR:channel.cc(316)] RawChannel read error (connection broken)
[17530:17572:1105/104632:ERROR:channel.cc(316)] RawChannel read error (connection broken)
[17530:17572:1105/104639:ERROR:channel.cc(316)] RawChannel read error (connection broken)
[17530:17572:1105/104648:ERROR:channel.cc(316)] RawChannel read error (connection broken)
[17530:17572:1105/105333:ERROR:channel.cc(316)] RawChannel read error (connection broken)
hey after successfull instalation on centos 6.0 i am nt able to open chrome after double click its not opening its getting stuck.
I cannot start google chrome version 38.0.2125.104 on RHEL 6.5.
[email protected] ~ $ uname -a
Linux host 2.6.32-504.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Sep 16 01:56:35 EDT 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Every attempt results in this following error in dmesg:
cat[15941]: segfault at 0 ip (null) sp 00007fff4dc70a08 error 4 in cat[400000+b000]
cat[15942]: segfault at 0 ip (null) sp 00007fff0fa65428 error 4 in cat[400000+b000]
lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
SELinux: initialized (dev proc, type proc), uses genfs_contexts
I can see that chrome-sandbox is a zombie process. Two copies of /opt/google/chrome/chrome are stoped. These 3 processes will duplicate for every attempt I attempt to start google-chrome-stable.
Any ideas? Is this a known issue?
I’ve been trying to get this work for quite awhile but I can’t even seem to download the script with wget. I’m getting 400 bad request errors. I’ve tried just downloading the script through the browser but then it seems unable to wget version.dat. Any ideas as to why?
Never mind. It seemed to fix itself. Thanks!
Thanks so much for the simple and wonderful article to install chrome on my centos 6.5
Hi,
I install google chrome in my VPS (I have CentOS 6.5) but, I receive next error: Failed to move to new namespace: PID namespaces supported, Network namespace supported, but failed: errno = Operation not permitted
A idea?
Best Regards,
Florin
wow, never though this much easy installaing chrome on my centos 6.5 box. thanks so much for the lessons.
Hello,
I have error in lanch
LaunchProcess: failed to execvp:
/opt/google/chrome/chrome-sandbox
[1:1:0723/182640:ERROR:nacl_fork_delegate_linux.cc(253)] Bad NaCl helper startup ack (0 bytes)
Abandon (core dumped)
in RedHat last version of nss (nss-3.16.1-4.el6_5.x86_64)
A idea ?
Thanks and Best Regards
You have to switch from the root user.
If you are on the terminal then, “su username” then type your password or you can also log off root from the GUI and log on a regular user. Now open the terminal and type in “google-chorme &” and everything should just work fine.
Hi Rahul,
Ignore privious one.
Please help me out.when i fire command google-chrome or google-chrome &
showing bash: google-chrome: command not found
note : SElinux is already in permissive mode.
Regards
Vinay
+918010991147
Hi Friends,
I have tried it with above mention but we are getting below error.
[[email protected] ~]# google-chrome
[0627/113401:ERROR:nss_util.cc(90)] Failed to create /root/.pki/nssdb directory.
Kindly help us regarding this.
Regards,
Manoj Gupta
[email protected]
Hi Manoj,
Does your system has SELinux Enforcing ? if yes, disable it and try again.
Hi Rahul,
Thanks, It ‘s now working… but is it possible, we will created any selinux access rule and it will work without disable selinux ?
Regards,
Manoj gupta
i am using red hat linux 6 but the chrome install on my computer as proceed above but did not show where it install and doenot start too?
very helpful !!
Genius! I thought all hope was lost trying to get Chrome installed on RH6.5. This worked like a charm.
thank you very much.
Thanks for the work and sharing the script. I was able to get chrome 33.0 up & running on RHEL6.4.
I am, however, having an issue getting google hangouts/voice/video plugin working. I’ve installed the 64bit rpm, I see it in about:plugins, yet when I try hangouts, or try to make a call, I get the message that I need to download the voice plugin.
Anyone else seeing this, have a recommended fix?
First update-
yum update
then try above step it will work fine
Thanks for mentioning my install_chrome.sh script, but I should warn people that you really need to be on at least CentOS 6.4 for the latest Google Chrome to work correctly. I’ve tested 6.0-6.3 and they *all* have various issues trying to run Google Chrome. Hence, my advice is to follow what the script suggests and upgrade to beyond 6.3 (i.e. “yes” to any upgrade prompt the script gives you and not the “no” that this article suggests as a possibility).
Thanks Richard for your comment, I have updated this article as per recommendation.
sir , install chrome multiple times but one system not installing
amd sempron ne-1250
kernal 2.6.32-279
Hi Manish,
Are you getting any errors while running script ?
Hey Rahul, thanks for sharing this info.
How on earth do I add that content to /etc/yum.repos.d/google.repo ??? Can’t find how to do this anywhere?
I like it when folks get together and share thoughts.
Great blog, stick with it!
I got a lot of dependency errors:
http://pastebin.com/WcqbnHUs
Could u help me please?
Im using CentOS 5.8 64bit.
Thank you!
Hi Diego,
Newer version of Google chrome are no more supported CentOS 5. We recommend to upgrade to CentOS 6.