How to Install Google Chrome 59 in CentOS/RHEL 7/6 & Fedora 25/24

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Rahul K.
Web Browsers 41 Comments Last Updated: Jun 6, 2017

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. Google Chrome 59 is latest stable version available for Linux users.

Google Chrome 59 Released: This article will help you to install Google chrome on CentOS/RHEL 7 and Fedora 25/24/23. The CentOS/RHEL 6 upgrade will not work for now.

Improvements in This Release

  • Automatically pauses Flash content.
  • A new JavaScript feature added, the ES2015 specification (earlier called ES6).
  • 26 security fixes
    • Be careful before installing it, The script recommended to upgrade system to latest version to work Google chrome properly

    Install or Update Google Chrome on Linux

    Richard Lloid provided an shell script 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 6.5 or later. Read More

    # wget http://chrome.richardlloyd.org.uk/install_chrome.sh
# chmod +x install_chrome.sh
# sh install_chrome.sh

    If you are using an older version of Linux distribution, This script will prompt you for confirmation to upgrade system. As per Richard Lloid we need to upgrade system by typing yes to work properly.

    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 &

    google-chrome-on-linux

    Uninstall Google Chrome

    If you have used above shell script to install Google chrome. Then you can use the following command to uninstall Google Chrome and its dependencies added by this script.

    # sh install_chrome.sh -u
    Know Error

    Error 1: Facing below error while starting Google chrome.

    # google-chrome
    /usr/bin/google-chrome: /usr/lib/libnss3.so: version `NSS_3.14.3′ not found (required by /usr/bin/google-chrome)

    Solution – Update nss package to latest version

    # yum update nss

    References:
    http://chrome.richardlloyd.org.uk/

    Rahul K.
    Rahul K.

    I, Rahul Kumar is the founder and chief editor of TecAdmin.net. I am Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) and working as IT professional since 2009.

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    41 Comments

    1. Anurudh Reply to Anurudh
      July 12, 2016 at 10:44 am

      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

      • Gerry Reply to Gerry
        October 9, 2016 at 2:11 pm

        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

    2. Anto Reply to Anto
      April 26, 2016 at 7:38 am

      Unsupported architecture (i686), Does it will supported?

    3. naresh Reply to naresh
      March 24, 2016 at 6:11 am

      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 ..

    4. ravi Reply to ravi
      October 19, 2015 at 4:27 pm

      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.

      • RAVI Reply to RAVI
        April 28, 2016 at 4:20 pm

        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.

    5. MartinThurn Reply to MartinThurn
      September 2, 2015 at 7:09 pm

      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!!!

    6. RHOC Reply to RHOC
      April 19, 2015 at 5:15 pm

      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

    7. Jerald Reply to Jerald
      December 7, 2014 at 7:05 pm

      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 🙁

      • jsel Reply to jsel
        May 5, 2015 at 1:55 am

        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.

    8. Jerald Reply to Jerald
      December 6, 2014 at 5:25 am

      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.

    9. wei Reply to wei
      November 4, 2014 at 10:35 pm

      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?

      • wei Reply to wei
        November 5, 2014 at 5:12 pm

        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)

    10. manoj Reply to manoj
      October 28, 2014 at 11:22 am

      hey after successfull instalation on centos 6.0 i am nt able to open chrome after double click its not opening its getting stuck.

    11. MTilley Reply to MTilley
      October 16, 2014 at 5:34 pm

      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?

    12. Raven Reply to Raven
      September 29, 2014 at 6:44 pm

      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?

    13. Abhilash Reply to Abhilash
      September 23, 2014 at 8:57 am

      Thanks so much for the simple and wonderful article to install chrome on my centos 6.5

    14. Florin Reply to Florin
      August 5, 2014 at 10:22 am

      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

    15. zamaan Reply to zamaan
      July 31, 2014 at 6:30 pm

      wow, never though this much easy installaing chrome on my centos 6.5 box. thanks so much for the lessons.

    16. Donald Reply to Donald
      July 23, 2014 at 4:38 pm

      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

      • Ahmed Talaat Reply to Ahmed
        August 30, 2015 at 10:22 pm

        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.

    17. Vinay Gajendra Reply to Vinay
      July 3, 2014 at 5:37 am

      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

    18. manoj gupta Reply to manoj
      June 27, 2014 at 6:18 am

      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]

    19. Dinesh Koirala Reply to Dinesh
      June 12, 2014 at 11:32 am

      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?

    20. Sunil Reply to Sunil
      June 7, 2014 at 6:14 am

      very helpful !!

    21. JW Reply to JW
      June 5, 2014 at 3:09 pm

      Genius! I thought all hope was lost trying to get Chrome installed on RH6.5. This worked like a charm.

    22. Ehsan Reply to Ehsan
      June 1, 2014 at 10:36 am

      thank you very much.

    23. Curt Reply to Curt
      February 19, 2014 at 6:32 pm

      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?

    24. pushpendra Reply to pushpendra
      February 11, 2014 at 8:34 pm

      First update-

      yum update
      then try above step it will work fine

    25. Richard Lloyd Reply to Richard
      December 11, 2013 at 10:37 pm

      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).

    26. Pamela Reply to Pamela
      November 25, 2013 at 6:17 pm

      Hey Rahul, thanks for sharing this info.

    27. Austin Trombley Reply to Austin
      November 13, 2013 at 10:46 pm

      How on earth do I add that content to /etc/yum.repos.d/google.repo ??? Can’t find how to do this anywhere?

    28. Dessie Reply to Dessie
      November 2, 2013 at 12:17 am

      I like it when folks get together and share thoughts.
      Great blog, stick with it!

    29. Diego Reply to Diego
      July 23, 2013 at 11:52 pm

      I got a lot of dependency errors:

      http://pastebin.com/WcqbnHUs

      Could u help me please?

      Im using CentOS 5.8 64bit.

      Thank you!

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