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Install Google Chrome with YUM on Fedora 16/15, CentOS/Red Hat (RHEL) 6.2

Updated by JR on Jan 3, 2012 in CentOS, Desktop Guides, Featured, Fedora, Linux, Most Popular, Red Hat (RHEL) | 113 comments

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This howto explains howto install Google Chrome Web browser on Fedora 16, Fedora 15, Fedora 14, Fedora 13, Fedora 12, CentOS 6.2/6.1/6 and Red Hat (RHEL) 6.2/6.1/6. Best way to install and keep up-to-date with Google Chrome browser is use Google’s own YUM repository.

Enable Google YUM repository

Add following to /etc/yum.repos.d/google.repo file:
32-bit

[google-chrome]
name=google-chrome - 32-bit
baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/i386
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub

64-bit

[google-chrome]
name=google-chrome - 64-bit
baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/x86_64
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub

Note: Both 32-bit and 64-bit repos can be placed in the same file.

Install Google Chrome with YUM (as root user)

Install Google Chrome Stable Version

## Install Google Chrome Stable version ##
yum install google-chrome-stable

Install Google Chrome Beta Version

## Install Google Chrome Beta version ##
yum install google-chrome-beta

Install Google Chrome Unstable Version

## Install Google Chrome Unstable version ##
yum install google-chrome-unstable

Google Chrome Unstable Web Browser on Fedora 15 64-bit with 32-bit Flash and Oracle Java plugin

Google Chrome Beta Web Browser on Fedora 12

Google Chrome Unstable Web Browser on Red Hat (RHEL) 6

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113 Comments

Gerhard / March 4, 2012

Thank you, the post helped me to get up and running with Chrome in minutes.

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Adrenaline / March 19, 2012

This worked awesome in Centos 6.2. Thank you!

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- amir / April 13, 2012
  
  I try it but , nothing happen after install :(
  
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  - JR / April 14, 2012
    
    Hi amir,
    
    Could you explain more specific, what you mean “nothing happen” after install? :)
    
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Karthik / March 21, 2012

Hi, I tried installing google chrome in my RHEL5, but it didn’t work.

sudo yum install google-chrome-stable
Loading “security” plugin
Loading “yahooplugin” plugin
google-chrome | 951 B 00:02
primary.xml.gz | 1.5 kB 00:00
google-chr: ################################################## 3/3
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
Resolving Dependencies
–> Running transaction check
—> Package google-chrome-stable.x86_64 0:17.0.963.79-125985 set to be updated
–> Processing Dependency: libcurl.so.4()(64bit) for package: google-chrome-stable
–> Processing Dependency: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.11)(64bit) for package: google-chrome-stable
–> Processing Dependency: xdg-utils for package: google-chrome-stable
–> Processing Dependency: lsb >= 4.0 for package: google-chrome-stable
–> Running transaction check
—> Package google-chrome-stable.x86_64 0:17.0.963.79-125985 set to be updated
–> Processing Dependency: libcurl.so.4()(64bit) for package: google-chrome-stable
–> Processing Dependency: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.11)(64bit) for package: google-chrome-stable
–> Processing Dependency: xdg-utils for package: google-chrome-stable
—> Package redhat-lsb.i386 0:4.0-2.1.4.el5 set to be updated
—> Package redhat-lsb.x86_64 0:4.0-2.1.4.el5 set to be updated
filelists.xml.gz | 605 B 00:00
filelists.xml.gz | 1.1 kB 00:00
filelists.sqlite.bz2 | 18 MB 00:21
–> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Missing Dependency: libcurl.so.4()(64bit) is needed by package google-chrome-stable
Error: Missing Dependency: xdg-utils is needed by package google-chrome-stable
Error: Missing Dependency: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.11)(64bit) is needed by package google-chrome-stable

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- JR / March 21, 2012
  
  Hi Karthik,
  
  Sorry, but this guide is not compatible with RHEL 5, only with RHEL 6 (6.2/6.1/6.0), like guide says. More info from this comment.
  
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Irwin Sobel / March 27, 2012

I followed the instructions for fc15 and got:
# yum install google-chrome-stable http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 12] Timeout on http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: (28, '') Trying other mirror. Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: google-chrome. Please verify its path and try again

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- Irwin Sobel / March 27, 2012
  
  I next set my http_proxy environment variable to 2 different working proxies
  and got:
  # yum install google-chrome-stable http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] curl#52 - "" Trying other mirror. Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: google-chrome. Please verify its path and try again
  
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  - Irwin Sobel / March 27, 2012
    
    Oops … take it all back.. I forgot to set the port_number in
    http_proxy=:<port_number
    Now it works!….
    
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    - Irwin Sobel / March 27, 2012
      
      i.e http_proxy = \:\
      
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      - Irwin Sobel / March 27, 2012
        
        can’t figure escape char (\\ didn’t work) – using ‘[' as delimiter:
        i.e. http_proxy=[proxy]:[port_number]
        
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        JR / March 27, 2012
        
        Hi Irwin,
        
        So did you get Google Chrome installed and working? :)
        
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        Irwin Sobel / March 28, 2012
        
        YUP… all seem fine now….
        
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Aftab Hussain / March 28, 2012

I had the same issue as Irwin, I found some information that said there is something funny with Google’s IP address setup, basically this will cause yum to fail about 25% of the time.

Run “yum install google-chrome-stable” a few times and it will succeed.

Thanks for the howto.

Aftab

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Sarab / April 9, 2012

[root@server tmp]# yum install google-chrome-unstable
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit, rhnplugin
After Creating the repositery of yum, when i install chrome in RHEL6 [Santiago]
the terminal giving that error.

This system is not registered with RHN.
RHN support will be disabled.
google-chrome | 951 B 00:00
Setting up Install Process
No package google-chrome-unstable available.
Error: Nothing to do

Now What i do…..

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- JR / April 9, 2012
  
  Hi Sarab,
  
  Could you post output of following commands:
  
  yum repolist yum list google*
  
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Sarab / April 11, 2012

[root@server ~]# yum repolist
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit, rhnplugin
This system is not registered with RHN.
RHN support will be disabled.
repo id repo name status
Server Server 2,679
epel Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 6 – i386 5,874
google-chrome google-chrome – 64-bit 3
repolist: 8,556

[root@server ~]# yum list google*
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit, rhnplugin
This system is not registered with RHN.
RHN support will be disabled.
Available Packages
google-authenticator.i686 0-0.3.20110830.hgd525a9bab875.el6 epel
google-droid-sans-fonts.noarch 20100409-1.el6 epel
google-droid-sans-mono-fonts.noarch 20100409-1.el6 epel
google-droid-serif-fonts.noarch 20100409-1.el6 epel
googlecl.noarch 0.9.9-2.el6 epel

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- JR / April 11, 2012
  
  Could you post also output of following command:
  
  cat /etc/yum.repos.d/google.repo
  
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Sarab / April 14, 2012

[root@server ~]# cat /etc/yum.repos.d/google.repo
[google-chrome]
name=google-chrome – 64-bit
baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/x86_64
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub

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Sarab / April 14, 2012

Actually i m using RHEl6 (Santiago) 64 bit(i686) Version…

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- JR / April 14, 2012
  
  Hi Sarab,
  
  i686 = 32-bit
  x86_64 = 64-bit
  
  Please post output of following commands:
  
  uname -a lsb_release -a
  
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Sarab / April 16, 2012

[root@server ~]# uname -a
Linux server.techytes.com 2.6.32-71.el6.i686 #1 SMP Wed Sep 1 01:26:34 EDT 2010 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

[root@server ~]# lsb_release -a
LSB Version: :core-4.0-ia32:core-4.0-noarch:graphics-4.0-ia32:graphics-4.0-noarch:printing-4.0-ia32:printing-4.0-noarch
Distributor ID: RedHatEnterpriseServer
Description: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.0 (Santiago)
Release: 6.0
Codename: Santiago

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- JR / April 16, 2012
  
  You have 32-bit Red Hat and 64-bit Google repo, so use following repo instead:
  
  [google-chrome] name=google-chrome - 32-bit baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/i386 enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub
  
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Sarab / April 16, 2012

same error again

[root@server Desktop]# yum install google-chrome-unstable
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit, rhnplugin
This system is not registered with RHN.
RHN support will be disabled.
google-chrome | 951 B 00:00
http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/i386/repodata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno 12] Timeout on http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/i386/repodata/primary.xml.gz: (28, ”)
Trying other mirror.
Setting up Install Process
No package google-chrome-unstable available.
Error: Nothing to do

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Sarab / April 16, 2012

[root@server Desktop]# yum install google-chrome-stable
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit, rhnplugin
This system is not registered with RHN.
RHN support will be disabled.
Setting up Install Process
No package google-chrome-stable available.
Error: Nothing to do

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- JR / April 16, 2012
  
  One problem might be that you do not have RHN support and Google Chrome needs some dependencies when you install it, but could you post also output of following command:
  
  cat /etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo
  
  If it’s very long output then you can use example http://pastebin.com
  
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qutengfei / April 23, 2012

I tried it on centos 5.5,is it supported?

Here are my information during installing.

–> Finished Dependency Resolution
google-chrome-stable-18.0.1025.162-131933.i386 from google-chrome has depsolving problems
–> Missing Dependency: libcurl.so.4 is needed by package google-chrome-stable-18.0.1025.162-131933.i386 (google-chrome)
google-chrome-stable-18.0.1025.162-131933.i386 from google-chrome has depsolving problems
–> Missing Dependency: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.11) is needed by package google-chrome-stable-18.0.1025.162-131933.i386 (google-chrome)
Error: Missing Dependency: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.11) is needed by package google-chrome-stable-18.0.1025.162-131933.i386 (google-chrome)
Error: Missing Dependency: libcurl.so.4 is needed by package google-chrome-stable-18.0.1025.162-131933.i386 (google-chrome)
You could try using –skip-broken to work around the problem
You could try running: package-cleanup –problems
package-cleanup –dupes
rpm -Va –nofiles –nodigest
The program package-cleanup is found in the yum-utils package.

how to solove it?

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- JR / April 23, 2012
  
  Hi qutengfei,
  
  CentOS 5 is not supported. More info from this comment.
  
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sm / April 25, 2012

sorry… doesn’t work at all… :(

yum install google-chrome-stable
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit, security
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * base: linux.mirrors.es.net
 * extras: linux.mirrors.es.net
 * updates: mirror.5ninesolutions.com
Setting up Install Process
Resolving Dependencies
--&gt; Running transaction check
---&gt; Package google-chrome-stable.x86_64 0:18.0.1025.162-131933 will be installed
--&gt; Finished Dependency Resolution
 
Dependencies Resolved
 
================================================================================
 Package                Arch     Version                  Repository       Size
================================================================================
Installing:
 google-chrome-stable   x86_64   18.0.1025.162-131933     google-chrome    34 M
 
Transaction Summary
================================================================================
Install       1 Package(s)
 
Total download size: 34 M
Installed size: 100 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/x86_64/google-chrome-stable-18.0.1025.162-131933.x86_64.rpm: [Errno 12] Timeout on http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/x86_64/google-chrome-stable-18.0.1025.162-131933.x86_64.rpm: (28, 'Operation too slow. Less than 1 bytes/sec transfered the last 30 seconds')
Trying other mirror.
 
 
Error Downloading Packages:
  google-chrome-stable-18.0.1025.162-131933.x86_64: failure: google-chrome-stable-18.0.1025.162-131933.x86_64.rpm from google-chrome: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.

another words I am getting 404 – file not found… it looks like google has decided to remove the file

JR / April 26, 2012

Hi sm,

If I try to directly download http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/x86_64/google-chrome-stable-18.0.1025.162-131933.x86_64.rpm it’s working so this is some network problem or Googles server download server was down.

What happens, if you try to download it directly?

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Mike / April 26, 2012

Did you do a yum update first?

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cmenxue / May 10, 2012

thanks @inftt!
I have some troubles when I follow the step to install google chrome:

how to resolve?

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- cmenxue / May 10, 2012
  
  Error Downloading Packages:
  google-chrome-stable-18.0.1025.168-134367.i386: Insufficient space in download directory /var/cache/yum/i386/15/google-chrome/packages
  * free 11 M
  * needed 38 M
  
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  - JR / May 11, 2012
    
    So you have not enough free space on disk…you have to remove something or get more space some other way… :)
    
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bp / May 14, 2012

How do i remove chrome and re-install it on my Ubuntu pc?

~/.config/google-chrome/Default …I can not find the file where do i look?

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- JR / May 15, 2012
  
  Hi bp,
  
  Do you use Google Chrome repo?
  
  Reply

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