Google Chrome installation on Redhat

[Devireddiharsha]

Hi ,

Please help me in installing Google chrome in Redhat 5.5.

Regards,
HARSHA.

[bob]

moved to Linux Chat

[glennzo]

As I recall, all I did was to set up the Google repository and install Chrome.

[smr54]

Nah, Glenn, you went through various issues, only saved by my intervention.

(To any others reading, not exactly, but hopefully it gave Glenn a laugh--this savior complex of mine.)

Seriously, there's no official repo, however, a Mr. Kamae has made a repo available.

http://www.linux-powered.com/~ryoji....mCentOS5.xhtml

Get the repo and then just run yum install chromium. Glenn, it was more complicated when you did it but Mr. Kamae seems to have streamlined the process--now, you can just download his chromium repo for your architecture and install.

[glennzo]

I was in fact saved by your intervention, for which I remain grateful. However, as I recall *, that was for a CentOS box. Wish my Redhat box was up. I could ssh into it from here and run yum repolist

* My recollection isn't what it used to be...

[smr54]

Heh--it was simply that I'd faced the same issues the day before

Regardless, Mr. Kamae's build should work for RH. I haven't tried it though, don't have an RH 5.x around.

[sej7278]

install this as /etc/yum.repos.d/google.repo

[google64]
name=Google - x86_64
baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/rpm/stable/x86_64
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub

[google]
name=Google - i386
baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/rpm/stable/i386
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub

then "yum install google-chrome-unstable"

[smr54]

Have you tested that on a RedHat or CentOS 5.x machine? Google code's official word was that they were't supporting 5.x.

[sej7278]

Originally Posted by smr54

Have you tested that on a RedHat or CentOS 5.x machine? Google code's official word was that they were't supporting 5.x.

i thought their official word was they won't support fedora, but rhel5 is supported - which is why you need the redhat-lsb package to get chrome/earth to install on fedora.

[AlbertP]

Redhat-LSB is not a compatibility package with Red Hat, it is the 'Linux Standard Base' for Red Hat and compatible distros as Fedora or CentOS. On Red Hat and CentOS you will also need it (but it may be preinstalled if you say you don't need to install, I've never used those).

[smr54]

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/is...etail?id=47715

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/is...etail?id=43886 (comment 11)

indicates that it doesn't support RH/CentOS/SL/OLE 5.x

Untested by me, however, I am using Mr. Kame's repo till CentOS 6 comes out.