Install Google Chrome on Fedora 36/35, CentOS Stream 9/8, Red Hat (RHEL) 9/8, Rocky Linux 8.5 - Comment Page: 4
This guide explains howto install Google Chrome Web browser on Fedora 36/35/34/33/32 and CentOS Stream / Red Hat (RHEL) 9/8.5 / Rocky Linux 8.5. Best way to install and keep up-to-date with Google Chrome browser is use Google's own YUM/DNF repository.
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Tried the install of the unstable build on a CentOS 5.6 box. yum reported no errors, but chrome absolutely wouldn’t start. Trying a yum update (thinking maybe dragging it from 9 -> 14 might help) only dropped me into dependency hell.
So, tried the stable release. Tried to install from google repo, same dependence issue. Needs libcurl.so.4. Standard curl lib install for CentOS 5.6 is libcurl.so.3
So, CentOS 5.6 is shut out of chrome. A colleague says things are fine on CentOS 6.0 (in part because curl is update from so.3 to so.4, apparently).
Hi egc,
Google Chrome is not compatible with CentOS/RHEL 5.6, this guide is only for Fedora and CentOS/RHEL 6.
How can we go about getting libcurl.so.4 built on CentOS 5.6?
Hi Ernie,
libcurl.so.4 is not only missing package on CentOS 5.6 (5.7) / Red Hat (RHEL) 5.6 (5.7). I think that the much bigger problem is glibc 2.5 package and Google Chrome needs glibc 2.8, if you build glibc 2.8 on your system, it could break the entire system…
i am not able to configure my proxy, i am getting this ERROR
please someone help me.
[[email protected] lab6]$ google-chrome --proxy-server="socks://10.0.0.21:3128"
[2862:2862:4806775350:ERROR:chrome/common/json_pref_store.cc(48)] Error reading Preferences: File doesn't exist. /home/rp/.config/google-chrome/Local State: No such file or directory
Created new window in existing browser session.
[[email protected] lab6]$
Hi prasad,
Try first close all google-chrome instances and then start it with same command?
Or try to set proxy server from preferences.
followed your instructions and everything just fine. really you made things easier. thanks
The chrome install steps above work like charm on fedora 15 security lab
The java/flash was not working with firefox and Midori. I can watch all videos on youtube
with chorome and dont have worry about the java or flash. I saved the steps via vi editor.
Awesome tip..
[…] First of all, which version of Fedora are you using? First you need to update your system (yum update) Open the command line, go to the directory where you downloaded Chrome and (as root) issue: rpm -ivh name_of_the_chrome_page.rpm Alternatively, add it to the repository: http://www.if-not-true-then-false.co…-red-hat-rhel/ […]
I was able to install Chrome on Oracle RHEL 6, but got the following errors when trying to run it:
[[email protected] ~]$ cat /etc/*release
Oracle Linux Server release 6.1
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.1 (Santiago)
Oracle Linux Server release 6.1
[[email protected] ~]$ google-chrome
/usr/bin/google-chrome: /lib64/libz.so.1: no version information available (required by /usr/bin/google-chrome)
/usr/bin/google-chrome: /lib64/libz.so.1: no version information available (required by /usr/bin/google-chrome)
Failed to move to new PID namespace: Operation not permitted
Hi Christoph,
Could you post output of following commands:
Do you get any SELinux errors?
I got these errors!
Setting up Install Process
Resolving Dependencies
–> Running transaction check
—> Package google-chrome-stable.i386 0:16.0.912.63-113337 set to be updated
–> Processing Dependency: libpng12.so.0 for package: google-chrome-stable-16.0.912.63-113337.i386
–> Processing Dependency: libXss.so.1 for package: google-chrome-stable-16.0.912.63-113337.i386
–> Processing Dependency: libcurl.so.4 for package: google-chrome-stable-16.0.912.63-113337.i386
–> Processing Dependency: libnss3.so(NSS_3.12.3) for package: google-chrome-stable-16.0.912.63-113337.i386
–> Processing Dependency: libgconf-2.so.4 for package: google-chrome-stable-16.0.912.63-113337.i386
–> Processing Dependency: libbz2.so.1 for package: google-chrome-stable-16.0.912.63-113337.i386
–> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Package: google-chrome-stable-16.0.912.63-113337.i386 (google-chrome)
Requires: libgconf-2.so.4
Error: Package: google-chrome-stable-16.0.912.63-113337.i386 (google-chrome)
Requires: libnss3.so(NSS_3.12.3)
Error: Package: google-chrome-stable-16.0.912.63-113337.i386 (google-chrome)
Requires: libpng12.so.0
Error: Package: google-chrome-stable-16.0.912.63-113337.i386 (google-chrome)
Requires: libXss.so.1
Error: Package: google-chrome-stable-16.0.912.63-113337.i386 (google-chrome)
Requires: libcurl.so.4
Error: Package: google-chrome-stable-16.0.912.63-113337.i386 (google-chrome)
Requires: libbz2.so.1
You could try using –skip-broken to work around the problem
You could try running: rpm -Va –nofiles –nodigest
Could you first tell what system you are using?
I have the following dep-errors in my CentOS release 5.7 (Final) box:
yum install google-chrome-stable
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca
* extras: mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca
* updates: centos.mirror.netelligent.ca
google-chrome | 951 B 00:00
google-chrome/primary | 1.4 kB 00:00
google-chrome 3/3
Setting up Install Process
Resolving Dependencies
–> Running transaction check
—> Package google-chrome-stable.x86_64 0:16.0.912.63-113337 set to be updated
–> 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: libcurl.so.4()(64bit) for package: google-chrome-stable
–> Running transaction check
—> Package google-chrome-stable.x86_64 0:16.0.912.63-113337 set to be updated
–> Processing Dependency: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.11)(64bit) for package: google-chrome-stable
–> Processing Dependency: libcurl.so.4()(64bit) for package: google-chrome-stable
—> Package xdg-utils.noarch 0:1.0.2-2.el5.centos set to be updated
–> Finished Dependency Resolution
google-chrome-stable-16.0.912.63-113337.x86_64 from google-chrome has depsolving problems
–> Missing Dependency: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.11)(64bit) is needed by package google-chrome-stable-16.0.912.63-113337.x86_64 (google-chrome)
google-chrome-stable-16.0.912.63-113337.x86_64 from google-chrome has depsolving problems
–> Missing Dependency: libcurl.so.4()(64bit) is needed by package google-chrome-stable-16.0.912.63-113337.x86_64 (google-chrome)
Error: Missing Dependency: libcurl.so.4()(64bit) is needed by package google-chrome-stable-16.0.912.63-113337.x86_64 (google-chrome)
Error: Missing Dependency: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.11)(64bit) is needed by package google-chrome-stable-16.0.912.63-113337.x86_64 (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.
Any hints to solve this issues ?
Hi Moko,
Google Chrome is not compatible with CentOS 5 (5.7) or Red Hat (RHEL) 5 (5.7).
Only way is to build manually all those dependencies, but I can’t recommend Glibc building manually, because very likely that breaks the whole system. So the only sensible way is run virtual machine, with newer distro (example CentOS 6) or change / upgrade your system to CentOS 6.
Very nice its too much helpful.
Thank to Admin & developer
Another way to enable google repo:
wget https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub
sudo rpm –import linux_signing_key.pub
You can verify the key installation by running:
rpm -qi gpg-pubkey-7fac5991-*
Best regards.
Hi 3D_Kid,
Your commands just import Google public key not enable repo…or maybe I understand something wrong what you meant?
How about using this repo file which for both 32/64 bit:
[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
Yes it’s normal way to do this (just like every repos work), but this guide have separate versions, because some users want to use 32-bit repo on 64-bit Linux…
Thanks! I believe Chrome could help me out with the OpenDns issue. I am having trouble with mozilla lately.
Thanks again great job.
Does not work right away in CentOS 5.7: You will need to build and install libcurl.so.4 and libc.so.6 to get it to work….
Hi W Sanders,
This guide is not for CentOS 5.7 / RHEL 5.7. For more info you can check example this comment.
than u buddy !!! you made my day !!
Thanks for sharing this installation guide :)