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’s latest release on CentOS 8/7, RHEL 8/7 & Fedora 30/29/28/27/26/25.
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Step 1 – Enable Yum Repository
Google chrome team provides an official yum repository to install chrome on Fedora and CentOS systems. The Fedora 30/29/28/27 users need to enable the google-chrome repository on their system. And the CentOS/RHEL 8/7 & Fedora 26/25 Users need to create a yum configuration file on your system using the following content.
Fedora 30-27 Users
sudo dnf install fedora-workstation-repositories sudo dnf config-manager --set-enabled google-chrome
CentOS/RHEL 8/7 & Fedora 26/25 Users
sudo vi /etc/yum.repos.d/google-chrome.repo
[google-chrome] name=google-chrome baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/x86_64 enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=https://dl.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 the latest Google chrome as per your needs.
Install Stable Version
sudo dnf install google-chrome-stable #Fedora 30-25 sudo dnf install google-chrome-stable #CentOS/RHEL 8 sudo yum install google-chrome-stable #CentOS/RHEL 7
Install Beta Version
sudo dnf install google-chrome-beta #Fedora 30-25 sudo dnf install google-chrome-beta #CentOS/RHEL 8 sudo yum install google-chrome-beta #CentOS/RHEL 7
Step 3 – Launch Google Chrome
You have installed Google chrome on a Fedora/CentOS/RHEL system. Use the following command to launch Google Chrome from a non-root account and enjoy browsing.
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)