Date: Monday, January 25, 2016 07:18:06 +0000 From: Sorin Srbu Sorin.Srbu@orgfarm.uu.se
Hi all,
Just recently I started getting the dreaded message about my CentOS 6.7 x64-installation wasn't going to be supported anymore by Google Chrome.
"This computer will soon stop receiving Google Chrome updates because this Linux system will no longer be supported."
Doing some google searches I found this; http://superuser.com/questions/1011832/this-computer-will-soon-sto p-receiving-google-chrome-updates-because-this-linux
Which in itself wasn't too uplifting... Following the suggestion about installing Chromium instead worked, but it seems to be stuck at an ancient version of the browser.
Recompiling the available Chromium source is of course an option, but not for me. Not unless there are step-by-step guides doing it.
There was a rather long and somewhat heated discussion regarding Chrome on CentOS a while ago. Was there any real conclusion about Google Chrome on CentOS and how to get around this problem? Are the views on this matter still infected?
I'm not looking forward to go back to the sluggish Firefox. 8-/
You're just seeing this now on a 6.7 system? I don't believe that google-chrome (as provided from the google repositories) has worked (been installable) on Centos-6.x machines for 2 years or more. [I just tried to install their current stable-48 on a 6.7 machine and got the libstdc++.so.6 dependency issue that broke this some time ago.]
With Centos-7 you'll see that warning banner if/when you update to 48. That release has been in beta since mid-december: https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2015-December/156726.html
and was just pushed out from their "stable" channel late last week.
My message in mid-december didn't elicit any real solution, but maybe that it's now hitting the stable release for Centos-7 there might be more interest.