[CentOS] Chromium browser for C6

Thu Nov 6 13:36:12 UTC 2014
Phelps, Matthew <mphelps at cfa.harvard.edu>

On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 8:25 AM, Phelps, Matthew <mphelps at cfa.harvard.edu>
wrote:

>
> I know you've been busy, but is there any update on this?
>
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 3:29 PM, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote:
>
>> On 10/14/2014 01:29 PM, Robert Arkiletian wrote:
>> > I found this bug fix report
>> >
>> > http://lwn.net/Articles/616130/
>> >
>> > I thought we were not able to get Chromium for C6. Apparently it looks
>> like
>> > the work has been already done.
>> >
>> > Is it possible we (hi Johnny) can get this package into C6? This would
>> be a
>> > wonderful addition to CentOS 6.  Please and thank you.
>>
>> They (Red Hat) do not release the Supplemental packages, usually because
>> they can't.  (IE, Sun/Oracle Java, Flash, etc.)
>>
>> This is usually because the sources are not completely open or there is
>> a license issue for distribution or a payment required for support, etc.
>>
>> Red Hat enters into an agreement with said vendors (as required) to be
>> able to distribute said packages only to paying customers.
>>
>> But, I'll see what I can find out.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Johnny Hughes
>>
>>
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(Sorry for the top post earlier)


Found this post on Oct. 17th 2014 at
https://access.redhat.com/discussions/650963:

Chris Scarff:

As of RHEL 6.6 (October 2014) it's now included with
rhel-6-workstation-supplementary-rpms or rhel-6-server-supplementary-rpms

sudo yum install chromium-browser

   - Results:

Installing:
chromium-browser x86_64 38.0.2125.101-2.el6_6
rhel-6-workstation-supplementary-rpms 48 M
Installing for dependencies:
audit-libs-python x86_64 2.3.7-5.el6 rhel-6-workstation-rpms 62 k
libcgroup x86_64 0.40.rc1-15.el6_6 rhel-6-workstation-rpms 129 k
libsemanage-python x86_64 2.0.43-4.2.el6 rhel-6-workstation-rpms 81 k
policycoreutils-python x86_64 2.0.83-19.47.el6_6.1 rhel-6-workstation-rpms
346 k
setools-libs x86_64 3.3.7-4.el6 rhel-6-workstation-rpms 400 k
setools-libs-python x86_64 3.3.7-4.el6 rhel-6-workstation-rpms 222 k
Updating for dependencies:
audit x86_64 2.3.7-5.el6 rhel-6-workstation-rpms 208 k
audit-libs i686 2.3.7-5.el6 rhel-6-workstation-rpms 72 k
audit-libs x86_64 2.3.7-5.el6 rhel-6-workstation-rpms 71 k
policycoreutils x86_64 2.0.83-19.47.el6_6.1 rhel-6-workstation-rpms 680 k
  October 17 2014 at 4:58 PM
<https://access.redhat.com/discussions/650963#comment-836943>