[CentOS] Chromium browser for C6

Peter peter at pajamian.dhs.org
Mon Nov 10 03:13:51 UTC 2014


On 11/10/2014 03:43 AM, Darr247 wrote:
> The only way that would work for C6 is if the script from Richard Lloyd,
> or similar, is used to segregate newer libraries from f15 and f17 into
> e.g. /opt/google/chrome/lib so versions of Chrome newer than v27 will
> install and run on C6, but other programs won't use those libraries.
> 
> C7 uses those newer libraries by default, so such an installation script
> isn't needed to make Chrome work on C7.  For now, anyway. :)
> 
> Chromium (see subject line) is the open source version of Chrome, of
> course.

The proper way to fix this for C6 is to backport those libraries to C6
in a 3rd-party repository.  This should be doable without conflicting
with the existing older libs in C6.

At this point Chrome should be install-able from their own repo without
having to pull any further stunts.


Peter



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