On 10/27/2013 01:14 PM, Darr247 wrote: > On 2013-10-27 @17:37 zulu, Larry Martell scribed: >> I was able to get Chrome working by doing the following (as root): >> >> wget http://chrome.richardlloyd.org.uk/install_chrome.sh >> chmod u+x install_chrome.sh >> ./install_chrome.sh >> >> Chrome can then be run with the command: google-chrome & >> Note that this will only run as a regular user, not as root. > > I ran that script to get Chrome v29.x to install 6 or 7 months ago... > it fetches a GTK package from a fedora 15 repo and segregates it from > the CentOS GTK files, if I recall correctly... > > yum has since upgraded Chrome 3 or 4 times (now at v31.something) from > Google's repo with no further hoop jumping. I'm glad this worked for you, but this is quite possibly the most horrific way to put chrome on a system. This script pulls in packages that no longer get updated, abuses LD_PRELOAD, builds as root, and quite possibly consumes raw orphaned kittens. This script should be classified as a criminal offense. -- Jim Perrin The CentOS Project | http://www.centos.org twitter: @BitIntegrity | GPG Key: FA09AD77