[CentOS] Google Chrome and CentOS 6?

Tue Jan 26 07:28:37 UTC 2016
Sorin Srbu <Sorin.Srbu at orgfarm.uu.se>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On
> Behalf Of Richard
> Sent: den 25 januari 2016 16:19
> To: CentOS mailing list
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Google Chrome and CentOS 6?
>
> 
> 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.]

Correct, on a CentOS 6.7 x64-system, it just started popping up about a week
ago.

The Richard Lloyd-solution (are you The Richard Lloyd providing the
install-script for Chrome?) has been working fine so far for me, flawlessly
even.
I'm just not quite sure what will happen in march, with the provided
solution from http://chrome.richardlloyd.org.uk/.


> 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.

I'd really like an official solution trickling down from RHEL.
The script works fine, but it's, well rather ghetto. 8-)

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//Sorin