[CentOS] Chromium on CentOS 6

Tue Nov 28 07:47:35 UTC 2017
Sorin Srbu <Sorin.Srbu at orgfarm.uu.se>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: CentOS [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of H
> Sent: den 27 november 2017 19:45
> To: centos at centos.org
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Chromium on CentOS 6
> 
> >> I have chromium installed on CentOS 7 and it works fine, I now need
> >> to install it on a CentOS 6 workstation. However, it is not
> >> available in EPEL as it is for C 7. From what I understand, this is
> >> because it is already available in a supplementary channel from
> >> RHEL for C 6.
> >>
> >> Is this the recommended method for installing it on C 6?
> >>
> >> https://www.tecmint.com/install-google-chrome-on-redhat-centos-fedo
> >> ra-linux/
> >>
> > Just curious - why are you using the epel, rather than google,
> > release for centos-7?
> >
> > The current google repo releases, (which install without any issues
> > and work well on centos-7) are:
> >
> >   stable.x86_64    62.0.3202.94-1
> >   beta.x86_64      63.0.3239.59-1
> >
> > while the epel one is:
> >
> >   61.0.3163.100-1
> >
> > which was the "google stable" release in late september, and is about
> > five releases back.
> 
> Ah, good, so this would be using the google-chrome.repo? I was not
familiar
> with it.

Wasn't the latest Google Chrome unsupported on CentOS 6 because of some
dependency problems or some such?


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//Sorin