Objective
The objective is to install latest Chromium Web Browser on RHEL7 Linux.
Operating System and Software Versions
- Operating System: – Redhat Enterprise Linux 7.3
- Software: – Chromium Version 58.0.3029.110 Fedora Project (64-bit)
Requirements
Privileged access to your system will be required.
Difficulty
EASY
Conventions
- # – requires given linux commands to be executed with root privileges either directly as a root user or by use of
sudocommand - $ – requires given linux commands to be executed as a regular non-privileged user
Instructions
Configure Chromium Release Repository
Navigate your browser to http://install.linux.ncsu.edu/pub/yum/itecs/public/chromium/rhel7/noarch/ and download the latest Chromium repository package. Example:
$ wget http://install.linux.ncsu.edu/pub/yum/itecs/public/chromium/rhel7/noarch/chromium-release-2.2-1.noarch.rpm
Next, install chromium release package:
# yum localinstall chromium-release-2.2-1.noarch.rpm
Configure Chromium Package Repository
Follow these steps to install chromium using package repositories.
The bellow command will download and install Chromium package repository configuration file:
# wget -O /etc/yum.repos.d/chromium-el6.repo http://people.centos.org/hughesjr/chromium/6/chromium-el6.repo
Enable EPEL repository
If you have not done so yet, enable EPEL repository.
Install Chromium
# yum install chromium
You can install Chromium by running yum install chromium in your terminal.
Start Chromium Web Browser
You can now start Chromium web browser from your application menu or by executing chromium-browser command from the terminal:
$ chromium-browser
Appendix
Enable EPEL repository to resolve the below error message:
Error: Package: chromium-31.0.1650.63-2.el6.x86_64 (chromium-el6)
Requires: libudev.so.0()(64bit)
You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest